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N2 Difficulties

3 posts by 2 people · 11 Dec 1998 - 23 Dec 1998

Ed White 11 Dec 1998#439523
After royally screwing my computer up with video card/driver/operator incompatibility, I was forced to "reset my rig to it's original configuration, which wiped away all software I had installed since it's purchase......and now I cannot get N2 to play at all. It installs normally, and I make sure that I disable the virusscan and screen saver so that they are not running in the background, and delete uvconfig from the n2 folder...this has worked in the past and allowed me to run from Windows, but not this time. anyone know how i can check for programs running in the background that could be causing problems? When I doubleclick the n2 icon, 1 of 2 things will happen...abort, retry, fail error message, or several lines of white text on black screen fading to all black screen, and my monitor goes to standby mode.Ctrl/alt/dlt allows me to end-task the program and get back to my desktop, but I wanna race, dammit! The prviously mentioned video card /driver problem cropped up when I installed my new Thriller for GPL and found it to be incompatible w/my Winmodem...while reinstalling my original vid card the computer refused to load Windows completely and would only go to safe mode...hence the total reconfiguration. To recap, i have GPL that runs but looks like hell, and I have N2 which would work and look fine if I could only get it to run.......HELP!!!! TIA, Ed
Ed White 12 Dec 1998#439710
Disregard previous post - I forgot to close all programs during the install process, I've got n2 and the BGN pack up and running.....YAY!!
Larry 23 Dec 1998#441528
Welcome to Windows :) This is one of the reasons I'm such a proponent of imaging software, such as PowerQuests Drive Image or Ghost (yuk). Set up the drive perfectly, with all the normal software you run and all the updates you can find, then image that puppy. Put the image, along with the software necessary to re-write the image to the drive, and burn it to a bootable CD. Takes me about 60 minutes to reinstall and re-create an 8 gig drive that's nearly full :) -Larry > After royally screwing my computer up with video card/driver/operator > incompatibility, I was forced to "reset my rig to it's original > configuration, which wiped away all software I had installed since it's > purchase.....

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