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12-21-2001, 12:55 PM
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Need for Speed locks up!
I am not a gamer! I have in my shop a customer's computer that has "Need for Speed-Porche" installed. When racing (and only when racing) the computer locks up. The computer is fine for all other applications. It is only this one that has a problem. The disk is fine because it has been loaded onto other machines as a test. The computer is a Celeron 700 with an ATI 32 meg Rage Mobility video card and 256 megs of ram. All help appreciated. Thanks.
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12-21-2001, 01:24 PM
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What OS? I know for sure NFS:PU has problems running on Win2K.
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12-21-2001, 02:48 PM
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Need for Speed:Porsche Unleashed requirements from
http://www.ea.com/eagames/games/pccd...edforspeed.jsp System Requirements: Windows 95 or 98 (2000 and NT not supported) 200 MHz Intel Pentium MMX or AMD K6-2 processor 32 MB RAM 4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive 150 MB free hard disk space 4 MB video card with DirectX 7.0a compatible driver DirectX 7.0a compatible sound card; Keyboard; Mouse and try this:http://techsupport.ea.com/ |
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12-21-2001, 03:00 PM
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NFS:PU works just fine on 2k with a little tweaking. If you have a large amount of RAM (512 megs or more), you have to adjust your virtual memory to 265-512, otherwise it loads the movie, and then sits there, and eventually crashes. But it runs just fine after you change that.
Other than that, I can tell you this: that is a very demanding game, and if the system is prone at all to overheating, that game WILL overheat it. My brother had his system overclocked, and had his alarm set at about 49-50c. The alarm ONLY went off when he was playing NFS. Not Unreal, not CS, not anything else, but NFS did it EVERY time he played. |
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12-21-2001, 09:50 PM
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Thanks for your help. The OS is Win98SE. All help appreciated
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12-22-2001, 07:09 AM
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To help narrow the problem down, when you say "The computer is fine for all other applications"- does this include other 3D games? If so could you please provide the names of a few games that work on the computer? Helpful to know if it is a problem with 3D gaming in general in just with NFS; or if it is a problem with a certain type of game- i.e., opengl versus D3D.
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