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Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 12:31pm

Attempting to run Pariah

So i bought a disk copy of pariah today, no it is not pirated or copied before anyone asks. i got it at a used retro game store.

anywaythis game refuses to launch. i've tried running in compatibility mode and running as administrator but i just get a small logo screen before it closes and nothing happens.

anyone have any ideas? is it incompatible hardware? maybe it just cant run on windows 7?

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Bad 💀 Motha Sep 18, 2015 @ 4:26pm

Alot of older disc media/games are like that on Vista and later OS.
Try navigating through the disc contents from Computer; then looking for the main "Install" or "Setup" .EXE and right click > run as Admin.

Sometimes the OS will simply block the auto-run, and thus the product appears to no longer work properly.

Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 4:35pm

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:
Alot of older disc media/games are like that on Vista and later OS.
Try navigating through the disc contents from Computer; then looking for the main "Install" or "Setup" .EXE and right click > run as Admin.

Sometimes the OS will simply block the auto-run, and thus the product appears to no longer work properly.

currently running it as administrator and in compatibility mode for windows xp sp 2. do you think it could be a setting in the ini file not allowing it to start?

Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 4:37pm

i'll give the setup compatibility change a go now

Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 4:55pm

still no luck got anything else for me?

Bad 💀 Motha Sep 18, 2015 @ 5:09pm

Well I know it works under 2000/XP 32bit and Win7 32/64bit
Will not work under Win10, due to SafeDisc DRM blocking.

Do you have any anti-virus suite running?

And you shouldn't need any "compatability modes"
Just "run as admin"

With online searches of that game; No issues finding info for that game related to; Game History; Patch Updates; Config Tweaks

Not finding anything to indicate possibles issues related to Win7; aside from a few things related to game crashing. Quite normal to see such info though.

Wish I could be more help to u.

Last edited by Bad 💀 Motha; Sep 18, 2015 @ 5:11pm

Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 6:55pm

could be antivirus i'll put it on snooze and try it

Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 6:58pm

paused my antivirus and still get that same logo pop up for a split second before it closes, really weird this absolutely shouldn't be happening

Gus Tarball Sep 18, 2015 @ 7:03pm

http://www.vistax64.com/gaming/190725-pariah.html

Sherman Sep 18, 2015 @ 8:38pm

Originally posted by Gus Tarball:
http://www.vistax64.com/gaming/190725-pariah.html

That actually requires the game to start and it doesnt

Sherman Sep 19, 2015 @ 4:54am

ok so update i installed the 1.03 patch and now the logo screen pops up and tells me the application failed to start correctly with a string of number code that suggests corrupted dll files. but i reinstalled the patch and the same thing happened. weird stuff

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ronr42 Sep 19, 2015 @ 6:28am

I own Pariah and it will not run on Win 7. I played it on an old XP pc I had. The game was fun for it's time, but it isn't much of a game by todays standards

Edit; It may not just be a Win 7 issue, it could also be that the game will not run on a muti-core CPU.

Last edited by ronr42; Sep 19, 2015 @ 6:43am

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Blaagh Sep 19, 2015 @ 8:06am

Pariah is one of the few games I bought on launch during my WoW period :)

Couldn't get it to run proper just 1.5 or 2 years later. It is very "optimized" for the hardware+drivers around its release.

edit: I got max payne to work on win 7 by launching the game set to use only 1 cpu
open a textfile and put in something like this:
"start /affinity 1 pariah.exe"

then save it as launch.cmd in the gamefolder

Last edited by Blaagh; Sep 19, 2015 @ 8:34am

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Sherman Sep 19, 2015 @ 11:19am

Originally posted by ronr42:
I own Pariah and it will not run on Win 7. I played it on an old XP pc I had. The game was fun for it's time, but it isn't much of a game by todays standards

Edit; It may not just be a Win 7 issue, it could also be that the game will not run on a muti-core CPU.

Originally posted by GOBii:
Pariah is one of the few games I bought on launch during my WoW period :)

Couldn't get it to run proper just 1.5 or 2 years later. It is very "optimized" for the hardware+drivers around its release.

edit: I got max payne to work on win 7 by launching the game set to use only 1 cpu
open a textfile and put in something like this:
"start /affinity 1 pariah.exe"

then save it as launch.cmd in the gamefolder

that actually makes a lot of sense. now i suppose that command line would work automatically when i launch the exe or do i launch it manually?

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