# Mafia - Original Version **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 14, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-original-version/748954 "2016-03-14T06:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-original-version/748954/1 "2016-03-14T06:53:27Z")
I purchased the original version of Mafia for the PC. Gosh! I guess it must have been about ten years ago now. I loved this game. I loved everything about it. But I haven’t touched it for about ten years now and I recently decided to buy Mafia 2 and Mafia 3. Mafia 3 is not yet available (to the best of my knowledge) and so I decided to play with the original version for a bit. But I can’t get it to run. I install it OK. But when I try and start it, I get the message, "Please log in to “Administrator mode” and restart “Game.exe”. I don’t remember just what version of Windows I used when I originally played this game. It must have been a very early version of XP. I doubt it was Win 98 because I only had that running on my PC for an extremely short amount of time. Part of the install procedure is a question whether I’d like to install some video drivers or not. I bought an extra good video card for this PC when I bought it. So, I selected “no” the first time I tried. When that didn’t work, I tried it again and selected “yes”. It still didn’t work. I’m currently running Win 7. Can anyone give me any advice on how to get this running? I have tried to run “Win.exe” from Administrator mode. I right-clicked on the Mafia Start icon. and selected the option “Run from admin mode”. But it didn’t produce any output at all. Not even a hint about to what it was that it objected. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong and how I can fix it? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-original-version/748954/2 "2016-03-14T07:00:56Z")
P.S. After installing this game, I was very careful to remove CD3 and then insert CD1 back into the CD drive and it remained in the CD drive every time I tried to start the game. It’s still there. If anyone is wondering why I’m posting that, it’s because it is required to keep that CD in the drive so that the game can verify it is the original authentic game and not a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-original-version/748954/3 "2016-03-14T07:52:27Z")
P.P.S. I got it to work. I have two PCs and I installed it on the other one (which is about 2 years newer and much faster with much more memory) and it worked there. Still running Windows 7 however. So, there is no need for anyone to post anything more to this thread. Still, it would be nice to learn just what was wrong and maybe even to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-original-version/748954/4 "2016-03-14T08:14:43Z")
FYI: In case anyone may be interested, here is an Everest Summary of my Older PC (the one that doesn’t play the game) --------[EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc.]------------------------------------------------------------ Version EVEREST v2.20.405 Homepage [http://www.lavalys.com/](http://www.lavalys.com/) Report Type Report Wizard Computer ADMIN-PC Generator Admin Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition 6.1.7601 Date 2016-03-14 Time 03:54 --------[Summary]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``` Computer: Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name ADMIN-PC User Name Admin Motherboard: CPU Type Intel Pentium III Xeon, 3217 MHz Motherboard Name Unknown Motherboard Chipset Unknown System Memory 4096 MB BIOS Type Unknown Display: Video Adapter AMD Radeon HD 6450 Video Adapter AMD Radeon HD 6450 Monitor Generic PnP Monitor [NoDB] (LW9AA0028553) Multimedia: Audio Adapter High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB] Audio Adapter High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB] Storage: IDE Controller Intel(R) ICH7 Family Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF IDE Controller Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0 Disk Drive WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 ATA Device Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS70 ATA Device Partitions: C: (NTFS) 953766 MB (807991 MB free) D: (NTFS) 953866 MB (707940 MB free) Total Size 1862.9 GB (1480.4 GB free) Network: Network Adapter Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) Network Adapter Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller (192.168.0.101) Network Adapter VPN Client Adapter - VPN (10.30.172.8) Peripherals: Printer Brother MFC-9130CW Printer Printer Brother PC-FAX v.3.1 Printer Fax Printer HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer Printer PaperPort Image Printer USB1 Controller Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 27C8 [NoDB] USB2 Controller Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 27CC [NoDB] USB Device Micro size USB to Bluetooth Dongle USB Device USB Composite Device ``` * * * And, here is an Everest Summary of my Newer PC (the one that does play the game OK) I have removed most of this report because I didn’t think they were necessary and they made this report extremely large: --------[EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc.]------------------------------------------------------------ Version EVEREST v2.20.405 Homepage [http://www.lavalys.com/](http://www.lavalys.com/) Report Type Report Wizard Computer JOHN-PC Generator John Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition 6.1.7601 Date 2016-03-14 Time 03:56 --------[Summary]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer: Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name JOHN-PC User Name John ``` Motherboard: CPU Type 4x , 3385 MHz Motherboard Name Unknown Motherboard Chipset Unknown System Memory 8160 MB BIOS Type Unknown Display: Video Adapter AMD Radeon HD 7470 Video Adapter AMD Radeon HD 7470 Monitor Generic PnP Monitor [NoDB] (LAV0C0514010) Multimedia: Audio Adapter High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB] Audio Adapter High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB] Storage: SCSI/RAID Controller Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller Disk Drive WDC WD20EARS-22MVWB0 Disk Drive Generic- Compact Flash USB Device Disk Drive Generic- MS/MS-Pro/HG USB Device Disk Drive Generic- SD/MMC USB Device Disk Drive Verbatim STORE N GO USB Device Optical Drive ATAPI DVD A DH16ABSH Partitions: C: (NTFS) 1889194 MB (165288 MB free) Network: Network Adapter Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Network Adapter TP-LINK Wireless USB Adapter (192.168.0.100) Peripherals: Printer Fax Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer USB1 Controller Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller [NoDB] USB2 Controller Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C26 [NoDB] USB2 Controller Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C2D [NoDB] USB Device Generic USB Hub USB Device TP-LINK Wireless USB Adapter USB Device USB Composite Device USB Device USB Input Device USB Device USB Mass Storage Device ```