Hey !
I bought NFS a few months ago and because of my really slow CD-ROM I want to play it
from the Harddisk .
The problem is that I dont want to copy everything to the HD so if theres a way to
leave out the damn videos and carspecs (power,speed etc.) then please post it into
this area .
MANY THANKS !!!!!!!
> Hey !
> I bought NFS a few months ago and because of my really slow CD-ROM I want to play it
> from the Harddisk .
> The problem is that I dont want to copy everything to the HD so if theres a way to
> leave out the damn videos and carspecs (power,speed etc.) then please post it into
> this area .Hello,
The only reason I recommend you do this, is to take advantage of the
speed of your hard disk, especially if you have a double/single speed
cdrom. Please do not use this information to illegally play N4S as it is
a very polished product and the more sales it gets, the more chance there
is of data disks coming out with more cars/tracks etc.
Bear in mind though, that this game is one of the few where the cosmetics
actually *add* to the experience of owning it. I have seen pirated
versions of n4s on the net and these guys have *no* idea what they are
missing in terms of the presentation of the full game.
Just doing what I told you above is *not* enough to make the game work,
but I feel, with the knowledge gained by owning the product(installation
guide, etc), you should be able to make it work.
Hope this helps.
>> Hey !
>> I bought NFS a few months ago and because of my really slow CD-ROM I
want to play it
>> from the Harddisk .
>> The problem is that I dont want to copy everything to the HD so if theres a
way to
>> leave out the damn videos and carspecs (power,speed etc.) then please post
it into
>> this area .Hello,
>Ok, my cd contains about 580 megs of data. If you run the program with
>tnfs sbpro novideo ( or sb16 or gus, etc)
>then you can safely remove most of the movie files in the movie
>directory. Be careful not to remove the ea.tgv and title.tgv as these
>are needed for the opening logos.
>This act should remove about 330 megs as there are lores and hires copies
>of the video on the cd. Also, in many of the directories you will find
>german specific filenames which are similar to the english filenames, but
>have a G at the end. e.g. Diablo and DiabloG, etc. These can be deleted
>for english play. This should remove the German voiceovers. I think
>that saves another 30 or so meg.
>I have already made a pruned copy which I played on a laptop when I went
>on the road. Don't flame me for piracy, because I took my original CD
>with me in case I got near a desktop pc! The pruned copy was about 60
>megs, but that included hex editing the tnfs.exe file to chop the music
>nd slides and dashboards. Speaking of which, there are copies of the
>dash in high and lowres. If you only use lores, you can safely delete
>the hires files.
>The only reason I recommend you do this, is to take advantage of the
>speed of your hard disk, especially if you have a double/single speed
>cdrom. Please do not use this information to illegally play N4S as it is
>a very polished product and the more sales it gets, the more chance there
>is of data disks coming out with more cars/tracks etc.
>Bear in mind though, that this game is one of the few where the cosmetics
>actually *add* to the experience of owning it. I have seen pirated
>versions of n4s on the net and these guys have *no* idea what they are
>missing in terms of the presentation of the full game.
>Just doing what I told you above is *not* enough to make the game work,
>but I feel, with the knowledge gained by owning the product(installation
>guide, etc), you should be able to make it work.
>Hope this helps.
I found that they've actually built in a pretty nifty copy protection. Copying
everything to your harddisk works just find, but when I ran the game from a
SUBST drive the car's speed was limited to about 50 miles tops! Nice protection
guys! It was a lot of fun.
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Jan-Willem Korver
MarketGraph, Haarzuilens, The Netherlands
The purpose of this information is NOT for playing an illegal copy of
the game. NFS is an excellent game and well worth the $45........
