Surprised to have trouble with NFS-PU

I picked up NFS-PU in the bargin bin a while back and just installed it last night. I was surprised to experience lockups. Never ran for more than a few minutes. I am running this on what is intended to be a games only PC, a just assembled Celeron 800(OC 533a) , Abit BH6, 256mb PC100, Voodoo3 AGP, and SB Live value. Fresh install of Win98 with SP1, DirectX 8a, and latest video and audio drivers. I could not locate any patches on the EA site for this game, is there one I missed? Is there a known conflict with any of my slightly dated hardware?

You can choose the multiplayer option and it will look for updates before you login. Just quit after the login screen comes up. Jason. Whodaguy wrote:

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> > I picked up NFS-PU in the bargin bin a while back and just installed it last > night. > I was surprised to experience lockups. Never ran for more than a few > minutes. > > I could not locate any patches on the EA site for this game, is there one I > missed?

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Update - just installed NASCAR Legends and EA F1 2000 on the same box. NASCAR Legends runs fine. EA F1 2000 also locks up or dumps me to the desktop.

"Whodaguy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Yeee7.2759$[email hidden]... > Update - just installed NASCAR Legends and EA F1 2000 on the same box. > > NASCAR Legends runs fine. > > EA F1 2000 also locks up or dumps me to the desktop. > Lesson to be learned: Don't buy EA games ;o) sorry

I remember initially having some kind of trouble with it related to z buffer depth, but that was on a Radeon. Try setting your desktop to a different color depth and see if that helps. I'm not familiar with Voodoo3 but I know older voodoos would try to run in their proprietary 22 bit color if you started it up from a 24 or 32 bit desktop. NFS-PU might not like 22 bit color. "Whodaguy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:wwde7.2735$[email hidden]... > I picked up NFS-PU in the bargin bin a while back and just installedit last > night. > I was surprised to experience lockups. Never ran for more than a few > minutes. > > I am running this on what is intended to be a games only PC, a just > assembled Celeron 800(OC 533a) , Abit BH6, 256mb PC100, Voodoo3 AGP,and SB > Live value. Fresh install of Win98 with SP1, DirectX 8a, and latestvideo > and audio drivers. > > I could not locate any patches on the EA site for this game, is thereone I

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> missed? > > Is there a known conflict with any of my slightly dated hardware? > > > >

The folks in alt.games.need-for-speed are pretty helpful with this stuff.

I have random lockups, mostly at the Alps circuit for some reason. All the other tracks work fine.

That's not it... my V3 3000 PCI runs NFS-PU just fine @ 1024x768 and a high level of eye candy (don't know if I've got everything "on") on a PIII650 O'ced to 866. Desktop is at 1024x768x32bit. Another victim of AGP aperture? Jan. =--- "Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn. "Haqsau" wrote... > I remember initially having some kind of trouble with it > related to z buffer depth, but that was on a Radeon<snip>