NFS: Porsche Unleashed - does it work in Win2k

Just picked up a copy for $7 and it installed fine but just sat there at the loading screen after the cool opening movie. I ENDED TASK after it thrashed my hard drive continuously for 15min with nothing coming on screen. EA no longer supports this game apparently and I can't find any info for game patches anywhere. Am I doomed not to play this 3yr old game :-(

"Angry Gamer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Just picked up a copy for $7 and it installed fine but just sat there atthe > loading screen after the cool opening movie. I ENDED TASK after itthrashed my > hard drive continuously for 15min with nothing coming on screen. > > EA no longer supports this game apparently and I can't find any info forgame > patches anywhere. Am I doomed not to play this 3yr old game :-( In the main NFS5 folder, rename: gimme.dll to gimme.dll.x (or anything you want). That should fix the problem. LavaLava

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> > "Angry Gamer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Just picked up a copy for $7 and it installed fine but just sat there at > the > > loading screen after the cool opening movie. I ENDED TASK after it > thrashed my > > hard drive continuously for 15min with nothing coming on screen. > > > > EA no longer supports this game apparently and I can't find any info for > game > > patches anywhere. Am I doomed not to play this 3yr old game :-( > > In the main NFS5 folder, rename: gimme.dll to gimme.dll.x (or anything

you > want). That should fix the problem. > > > LavaLava BTW: It still won't play very well in Win2K. You'll get some screen jerking while playing. The display appears to stop for maybe a 1/4 second. Some have fixed this by making the swap extremely small, but I need the swap for other things. LavaLava > >

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>Just picked up a copy for $7 and it installed fine but just sat there at the >loading screen after the cool opening movie. I ENDED TASK after it thrashed >my >hard drive continuously for 15min with nothing coming on screen. > >EA no longer supports this game apparently and I can't find any info for game >patches anywhere. Am I doomed not to play this 3yr old game :-(

Same thing happened on a friend's system. I even tried deleting and re-installing - no dice. If you figure it out, could you let us know, please? Eldred -- Help find missing child: Tatianna Ashley Chillcutt from Michigan(info on my homepage) Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Angry > Gamer) writes: > > >Just picked up a copy for $7 and it installed fine but just sat there atthe > >loading screen after the cool opening movie. I ENDED TASK after itthrashed > >my > >hard drive continuously for 15min with nothing coming on screen. > > > >EA no longer supports this game apparently and I can't find any info forgame > >patches anywhere. Am I doomed not to play this 3yr old game :-( > > Same thing happened on a friend's system. I even tried deleting and > re-installing - no dice. If you figure it out, could you let us know,please? > > Eldred XP does't get along with "gimmie.dll". But if you rename it (or delete it) things work out. (usually) ;o) Elrikk

Here's something I have posted a while ago to alt.games.need-for-speed. I guess you can ignore the first paragraph. You probably have this compatibility patch. ------------- NFS PU has a memory leak when running under any flavor of Windows NT (Win2000 or WinXP). It hangs on the "Loading" screen and slowly consumes all your free memory until it crashes. There are three things you could do. 1. Make sure you have the latest compatibility patches from the MS Update site. There is a newly released patch that lists NFS PU as one of the games it contains fixes for. It's not 100% clear if this patch fixes the memory leak bug with NFS PU. It has been reported that it will work with NFS PU unpatched (V3.0 or 3.2) or patched to V3.5 with the official patch, but not with the noCD patch. You might have to move on to fix. No 2, at least if you want to use a noCD patch. 2. Reduce the size of your page file. Set it to min=200 and max=200. If it works, you could raise the settings, if it doesn't, set them even lower. They can be set lower than the size of your physical memory. You can even disable the page file, but if you do, other apps might run you system low on memory. 3. Delete gimme.dll You will find it in the NFS program directory. Now it may seem strange that you can fix anything by deleting some programs files, but this is actually true. If you have NFS PU Ver. 3.5, it looks like the only problem is that you will no longer se the persona picture in the first menu. Deleting gimme.dll can disable Peer to Peer IP Multiplayer and Internet Multiplayer on some systems. I'm under the impression that fix No.2 will always work, and fix No.3 will sometimes work. You should never have to do both. Also; Open fe.txt and make sure that castanet is set to "0" (castanet=0) in two places if you use the noCD patch.

On 30 Jul 2003 23:20:00 GMT, [email hidden] (Angry Gamer) wrote: >Just picked up a copy for $7 and it installed fine but just sat there at the >loading screen after the cool opening movie. I ENDED TASK after it thrashed my >hard drive continuously for 15min with nothing coming on screen. > >EA no longer supports this game apparently and I can't find any info for game >patches anywhere. Am I doomed not to play this 3yr old game :-( I've appended a bunch of posts I've come across for a solution. EA doesn't support the game any more (you'd think it never existed if you check their website) and the game never was supported for Win2000 or XP. As far as patches, search around some of the "Copy" sites like www.gamecopyworld.com I'm using Win2000Pro and SP4, running NFS-PU ver. 3.5 US, and renaming the file GIMME.DLL (in the NFS-PU main directory) did the trick for me. Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------ From [email hidden] Mon Dec 02 04:48:33 2002 Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators Subject: Re: Help on Need For Speed 5 = Porsche Unleashed From: "Jone Tytlandsvik" <[email hidden]> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:48:33 +0100 You don't say exactly what happens, but here's something I have posted before to alt.games.need-for-speed. I guess you can ignore the first paragraph. You probably have this compatibility patch. ------------- NFS PU has a memory leak when running under any flavor of Windows NT (Win2000 or WinXP). It hangs on the "Loading" screen and slowly consumes all your free memory until it crashes. There are three things you could do. 1. Make sure you have the latest compatibility patches from the MS Update site. There is a newly released patch that lists NFS PU as one of the games it contains fixes for. It's not 100% clear if this patch fixes the memory leak bug with NFS PU. It has been reported that it will work with NFS PU unpatched (V3.0 or 3.2) or patched to V3.5 with the official patch, but not with the noCD patch. You might have to move on to fix. No 2, at least if you want to use a noCD patch. 2. Reduce the size of your page file. Set it to min=200 and max=200. If it works, you could raise the settings, if it doesn't, set them even lower. They can be set lower than the size of your physical memory. You can even disable the page file, but if you do, other apps might run you system low on memory. 3. Delete gimme.dll You will find it in the NFS program directory. Now it may seem strange that you can fix anything by deleting some programs files, but this is actually true. If you have NFS PU Ver. 3.5, it looks like the only problem is that you will no longer se the persona picture in the first menu. Deleting gimme.dll can disable Peer to Peer IP Multiplayer and Internet Multiplayer on some systems. I'm under the impression that fix No.2 will always work, and fix No.3 will sometimes work. You should never have to do both. Also; Open fe.txt and make sure that castanet is set to "0" (castanet=0) in two places if you use the noCD patch. Jone http://www.tytlandsvik.no ------------------------------------------------------------ from http://www.nfscheats.com Faq Id: 19 Question: I run win2k|xp and the game locks up while loading, what do I do? Answer: NFS:PU will in most cases hang on the "Loading" screen, eating up all the memory until it crashes. You can delete gimme.dll from the game directory but then you are unable to play network or internet, and it might not solve the problem. Try to alter your page file settings. On my win2k with 256Mb I have set it to min=300, max=300. If it still hangs on the loading screen, try to set it even smaller. Regardless of what people might tell you about the paging file, to solve this problem on win2k and winxp, you need to limit it's size. It looks like the more memory you have, the smaller the page file has to be. Jone Tytlandsvik -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft released a Windows Update patch in April of 2002 that adds compatibility support in Windows XP for NFS5. The patch is titled "Windows XP Application Compatibility Update, April 2002" and is 898kb. (http://www.windowsupdate.com) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319580 Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 319580 Windows XP Application Compatibility Update (April 10, 2002) The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional This article was previously published under Q319580 SUMMARY Windows XP was designed to allow it to support additional programs even after you install it. The Windows XP Application Compatibility Update is a package of software updates that expand program compatibility support in Windows XP. This can help to avoid common issues with certain programs. Microsoft recommends that you download this compatibility update if you are having problems with any of the programs that this update is designed to support. This update is available on the Microsoft Windows Update Web site: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com For additional information about the latest service pack for Windows XP, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322389 How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack MORE INFORMATION This update addresses issues with the following programs: <many deleted> Need For Speed: Porshe Unleashed - Electronic Arts This update also addresses the issues that are included in previous Windows XP Application Compatibility Updates. The programs that are addressed in the previous updates are listed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles: 313484 Windows XP Application Compatibility Update (December 17, 2001) 308381 Windows XP Application Compatibility Update (October 25, 2001) The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel. Date Time Version Size File name -------------------------------------------------------- 25-Mar-2002 14:01 5.1.2600.40 1,801,216 Acgenral.dll 25-Mar-2002 14:01 5.1.2600.40 382,976 Aclayers.dll 25-Mar-2002 14:01 5.1.2600.40 207,360 Acspecfc.dll 25-Mar-2002 14:01 5.1.2600.40 107,520 Acxtrnal.dll 25-Mar-2002 14:02 189,718 Apphelp.sdb 25-Mar-2002 14:02 81,914 Apps.chm 25-Mar-2002 14:02 8,140 Drvmain.sdb 25-Mar-2002 14:02 139,274 Msimain.sdb 25-Mar-2002 14:02 1,052,752 Sysmain.sdb The third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products. 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>XP does't get along with "gimmie.dll". But if you rename it (or delete it) >things work out. Thanks - I'll try it. Eldred -- Help find missing child: Tatianna Ashley Chillcutt from Michigan(info on my homepage) Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.