N4 Boot Problem

OK, my experience: Loaded N4 last night, let it install DX8. Click on "run" to start N4, get hourglass for 20 or 30 seconds while CD was spinning then nothing. Installed VIA 4 in 1 drivers per earlier post, no help. Loaded latest V3 drivers, no help. Deleted and reinstalled game, no help. (demo ran/runs fine) . Downloaded NOCD N4 exec, we're in business. My system, Duron 650 @ 850, V3 2000 oc'd to 3000 specs, but my CD ROM is a 5 year old Toshiba on my C drive. This seems to point to the CD ROM as the problem, but I don't have one of the newer DVD drives. Must be the copyright issue? Solution for me was the no cd exec. (link in earlier port) Steve

i had a similiar issue after installing. i used opengl in the video configurator, the game would load & then sit there w/ a complete balck screen. once i clicked a mouse button, the main n4 page would display. when i uses d3d there are no issues. i have since loaded dx8a & the new via 4.28a drivers. will try opengl again & run benchmarks -- Brian Grrrr baby, very grrrrr "Steve Rosko" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9613be$60l$[email hidden]... > OK, my experience: > Loaded N4 last night, let it install DX8. Click on "run" to start N4, get > hourglass for 20 or 30 seconds while CD was spinning then nothing. > Installed VIA 4 in 1 drivers per earlier post, no help. Loaded latest V3 > drivers, no help. Deleted and reinstalled game, no help. (demo ran/runs > fine) . Downloaded NOCD N4 exec, we're in business. My system, Duron 650 @ > 850, V3 2000 oc'd to 3000 specs, but my CD ROM is a 5 year old Toshiba on my > C drive. This seems to point to the CD ROM as the problem, but I don't have > one of the newer DVD drives. Must be the copyright issue? > > Solution for me was the no cd exec. (link in earlier port) > > Steve > >

Try letting the hour glass stay for a while longer. I have a AMD 1 gig, 256MB, ATA100 UDMA HDD and it still takes a good 30 seconds for the game to load.. But, I'm running it in a Pioneer 105s DVD player, and it speeds up and slows down quite a few times before the game finally loads.. (DX8.0, Voodoo3000, D3D) Steve Rosko wrote:

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> > OK, my experience: > Loaded N4 last night, let it install DX8. Click on "run" to start N4, get > hourglass for 20 or 30 seconds while CD was spinning then nothing. > Installed VIA 4 in 1 drivers per earlier post, no help. Loaded latest V3 > drivers, no help. Deleted and reinstalled game, no help. (demo ran/runs > fine) . Downloaded NOCD N4 exec, we're in business. My system, Duron 650 @ > 850, V3 2000 oc'd to 3000 specs, but my CD ROM is a 5 year old Toshiba on my > C drive. This seems to point to the CD ROM as the problem, but I don't have > one of the newer DVD drives. Must be the copyright issue? > > Solution for me was the no cd exec. (link in earlier port) > > Steve

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>Subject: N4 Boot Problem >From: "Steve Rosko" [email hidden] >Date: 02/09/2001 10:45 AM Eastern Standard Time >Message-id: <9613be$60l$[email hidden]> > >OK, my experience: >Loaded N4 last night, let it install DX8. Click on "run" to start N4, get >hourglass for 20 or 30 seconds while CD was spinning then nothing. >Installed VIA 4 in 1 drivers per earlier post, no help. Loaded latest V3 >drivers, no help. Deleted and reinstalled game, no help. (demo ran/runs >fine) . Downloaded NOCD N4 exec, we're in business. My system, Duron 650 @ >850, V3 2000 oc'd to 3000 specs, but my CD ROM is a 5 year old Toshiba on my >C drive. This seems to point to the CD ROM as the problem, but I don't have >one of the newer DVD drives. Must be the copyright issue? > >Solution for me was the no cd exec. (link in earlier port) > >Steve

Care to re-post that link???? PLEEEEZE??? (Don't gimme NOCRAP in E-mail)

The hour glass goes away (back to curser) and CD drive activity stops. Mick <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Try letting the hour glass stay for a while longer. I have a AMD 1 gig, > 256MB, ATA100 UDMA HDD and it still takes a good 30 seconds for the game > to load.. But, I'm running it in a Pioneer 105s DVD player, and it > speeds up and slows down quite a few times before the game finally > loads.. (DX8.0, Voodoo3000, D3D) > > Steve Rosko wrote: > > > > OK, my experience: > > Loaded N4 last night, let it install DX8. Click on "run" to start N4,

get > > hourglass for 20 or 30 seconds while CD was spinning then nothing. > > Installed VIA 4 in 1 drivers per earlier post, no help. Loaded latestV3 > > drivers, no help. Deleted and reinstalled game, no help. (demo ran/runs > > fine) . Downloaded NOCD N4 exec, we're in business. My system, Duron650 @ > > 850, V3 2000 oc'd to 3000 specs, but my CD ROM is a 5 year old Toshibaon my > > C drive. This seems to point to the CD ROM as the problem, but I don'thave > > one of the newer DVD drives. Must be the copyright issue? > > > > Solution for me was the no cd exec. (link in earlier port) > > > > Steve