idiot43: The game used to work fine but suddenly one day i started playing and all of the character models are invisible, along with some other objects in the world. It happened after I installed Ties that bind, so mabye that messud up the origninal game somehow?

sk8rboy40213: im having the same exact issue but ties that bind works perfectly fine so does all of my other games so im not sure how to fix this i have tried everything i can think of

mr_brown_carter: Hi,

I had the same error on Windows 10 (Version 1903, Build 18362.356) with NVidia GTX 960 and Intel Graphics 530.

It seems that The Suffering and Ties That Bind are somehow incompatible with each other when both installed.

Following worked for me:
1. Install The Suffering provided by GOG without any 3rd party mods
2. Turn Windows features on and off -> Legacy components -> enable Direct Play
3. Select the integrated Intel Graphics 530 in the NVidia Control Panel to run The Suffering
4. Open regedit and search for "Surreal > Riot Engine > SettingsDX105". There could be multiple matches, delete all of "SettingsDX105". Note: Editing the registry may crash your system if you are not familiar with it, make a backup before changing anything!!!
5. Launch The Suffering with the "-setup" modifier and configure The Suffering to use Intel Graphics 530

Remarks: Every time you play Ties That Bind, it will recreate the "SettingsDX105", so you have to repeat steps 4. and 5. before playing The Suffering again.

Hope this helps!