Help on Need For Speed 5 = Porsche Unleashed

Hi. I have installed it according to the manuals. No wierd messages during installation. But when I run it, it doesnt run! Please help. My rig specs: Windows XP Professional P4 1.6A overclocked to 2.5Ghz on watercool MSI 645E Max2 LRU board with latest bios 512MB Samsung DDR333 X 1 Inno3D GF4 MX440 modified as Quadro4 550XGL Nvidia 41.XX drivers Maxtor HDD Does it have something to do with the Nvidia drivers? My new Logitech Momo Racing Wheel has just arrived and I am very eager to use it on the NSF5. Anybody, please help. Thank you very much.

[email hidden] (The Mighty ABACUS) wrote in news:[email hidden]: > I have installed it according to the manuals. > No wierd messages during installation. > > But when I run it, it doesnt run! Check here: http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?id=6014

On 1 Dec 2002 22:50:16 -0800, [email hidden] (The Mighty ABACUS) wrote:

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>Hi. > >I have installed it according to the manuals. >No wierd messages during installation. > >But when I run it, it doesnt run! > >Please help. > >My rig specs: > >Windows XP Professional >P4 1.6A overclocked to 2.5Ghz on watercool >MSI 645E Max2 LRU board with latest bios >512MB Samsung DDR333 X 1 >Inno3D GF4 MX440 modified as Quadro4 550XGL >Nvidia 41.XX drivers >Maxtor HDD > >Does it have something to do with the Nvidia drivers? > >My new Logitech Momo Racing Wheel has just arrived and I am very >eager to use it on the NSF5. > >Anybody, please help. > >Thank you very much.

Have you tried asking over at alt.games.need-for-speed ? Usually, for Windows 2000 and XP you must rename a certain file, gimme.dll or something like that, to get it to run... -- __________ ____---____ Marco Antonio Checa Funcke \_________D /-/---_----' Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru _H__/_/ http://machf.tripod.com '-_____|( remove the "no_me_j." and "sons.of." parts before replying

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