Soldier of Fortune: Platinum Edition

i just bought the game to days ago and it doesnt even launch and i cant play it does anyone know how to fix this problem.

Honestly, Activision should not be selling this at all, let alone for the price they're asking, when it just does not run on modern systems. I tried all the solutions I could find online, but nothing worked. I did get it to go as far as the main menu, but that's it.

You need extra, small but never the less, efforts to make it run.

This game was way ahead of its time when it came out in 2000. It featured a modified idtech 2 engine called GHOUL, which was capable of displaying the most graphic depictions of violence ever. Each enemy's body was divided into zones, and each zone displayed damage differently based on what weapon was used and how the player aimed. Shoot someone with a 9mm pistol and you will certainly make holes in their body, but due to the relatively low ballistic velocity and damage potential of the weapon, the amount of gore will be minimal. If, on the other hand you shoot someone in the leg with a shotgun, their leg will be amputated. Limbs can be severed by gunfire, heads can explode, enemies can be disemboweled, etc. This attempt at realistic gore had never been done to my knowledge until Soldier of Fortune. Beyond the gore, the game itself is very cool as well. You do battle in a number of exotic locations, and you have access to a large variety of weapons. The voice acting is mostly good with only a few minor hiccups, and the cutscenes serve to advance the plot well. One minor gripe is that, for the 87 millionth time, the bad guys are a group of "evil white people", but what did you expect from our politically correct world? I'm sure the developers would have been labeled as racist if they had made a game where the opponents were anything other than Caucasian, which is sad. The only thing left for GOG to do(which I will be pressing hard for) is to also make the Linux version available for download. This game was ported to Linux by Loki Software in the early 2000's, and we Linux folk deserve a native version of this awesome game, especially since that port is already available.

I'm sure this is a fantastic game, especially from what I've heard over the years. Yet GOG is selling people mere fragments that won't work together. The game doesn't even launch and none of the fixes I've tried work. GOG should honestly be ashamed for taking money for a complete piece of ____ like this. Disgusting.