WHy would you even fart around? Backup any mods you may have made to NR2003, and re-install the
thing. Sometimes it seems people are willing to spend far more time and trouble tinkering than just
re-installing it and being done with it.
> After installing the new proc and mobo XP wouldn't even run, so I
> reinstalled over the top of the old version. Then yes I also had to
> reinstall all drivers. Had to redo a bunch of system settings too, although
> surprisingly it kept quite a few of them, if it hadn't been for that it
> would have looked like a clean install. Anyway this is the only real
> problem I have had since then. On boad sound works fine in other games,
> including Battlefield 1942 which is really finicky about sound cards. Video
> works fine, hyperthreading is enabled and appears to be working correctly,
> etc.
> Anyway elsewhere in this thread Sockpuppet said he fixed a similar problem
> by reinstalling NR 2003 so I guess I will try that. Although I think maybe
> first I will try backing up and removing the .ini files to see if that is
> good enough. I remember fixing NR 2002 once by doing that.
> > Haq,
> > when you put in the new processor & MObo, how did you get XP to deal with
> > the new components? when I did this I at least had to have the XP CDROM
> in
> > , boot from it, and did a "reinstall" (what we used to call Fix install in
> > 98, you didn't wipe the HD) where it just completely reinstalls the os in
> > the dir it was, then I also had to reinstall many apps & drivers, so that
> > they would work (NVIDIA, MSWheel, office, ICQ, all of the XP-updates,
> > etc...) Im thinking that there are probably enough differences on how
> many
> > things worked from old MOBO to the new, that you really should either
> fresh
> > install XP, or try the rebuild XP install... if nothing else the main
> > chipset has probably changed and they like to redirect irq's dma and
> allthat
> > their own way...
> > Course that is just me, as I seldom have had luck, with Papy games nor a
> > couple other apps, ever working right, after an upgrade in mobo before.
> > even though I tried what so many "proclaim" as the way to get around doing
> > the format & the fresh install... (tech TV had a big thing about doing
> what
> > you did back when 98 was the OS, still they urged that you would be BEST
> off
> > to reinstall from scratch, but said many have gotten by doing yada yada...
> > > Anybody else seen this? I have NR 2003 running in Windows XP Pro. If I
> > run
> > > it with hardware 3D sound it runs okay but I get occasional crackling.
> No
> > > amount of turning down the volume levels fixes the crackling. If I turn
> > > hardware 3D sound off it crashes XP. This is the first app I have ever
> > seen
> > > that can crash XP. I mean it literally halted the operating system,
> gave
> > me
> > > the XP blue screen, and then XP dumped all its physical memory to disk
> and
> > > restarted.
> > > Stuff, in case it matters:
> > > P4 2.4C w/ HT enabled
> > > Asus P4P800 motherboard
> > > 512 meg dual channel DDR
> > > 128 meg GF4 Ti 4200
> > > Analog Devices onboard sound
> > > Logitech Momo Racing wheel
> > > I have not yet tried re-installing NR 2003. That's the obvious next
> step,
> > > since I did not reinstall it after upgrading the mobo and proc, but
> before
> > I
> > > do that I wanted to see if anybody else had this problem and knew of a
> > fix.
> > > Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
