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dkjsafbjk
07-07-2002, 16:00
i have nfs 5 porsche 2000/unleashed.
whenever i try to play it, it usually gets past the loading screen, and i can have one or two races, then it either restarts the computer for me or quits the game for me.
sometimes it just gets to the last loading screen, then it quits back to windows.
btw i have windowsxp, so maybe that's got something to do with it??????
dkjsafbjk
07-07-2002, 22:03
i defragmented the hd, and that seemed to help; i got through 3 races, before it decided to restart the computer on me!
madassassin2k
08-07-2002, 01:49
Try scan-disk then defrag again.
dkjsafbjk
08-07-2002, 17:03
i did run scandisk as well as defragmenter
Joe Forster/STA
10-07-2002, 03:23
Hi, upgrade NFS5 and your graphics card drivers to the latest version.

Joe
dkjsafbjk
10-07-2002, 03:27
yeah, i've updated everything, no difference
bOOls eYe
10-07-2002, 03:47
1) What graphics card have you got ?
NFS 5 won't run with a graphics card without 3d hardware acceleration.

2) Have you installed the latest DirectX drivers ?

3) Check for viruses :D
dkjsafbjk
10-07-2002, 03:53
yes, i have a 3d accelerator card, i've got the newset directx (8.0)i think??, and i've got mcafee virusscan v6.02 pro, no virusses
bOOls eYe
10-07-2002, 03:59
hmm...

run dxdiag.exe (in \windows\system32 directory i think) to check if there are any problems.

or install directx 8.1 at micro$oft.com
dkjsafbjk
10-07-2002, 04:09
i run the directx diagnostics profram, and there were no errors or faults. and i don't thin that upgrading directx to 8.1 would make a difference.
see porsche 2000 used to work alright when i first got it. but now about a year later, windows has become more unstable, and my plan is the put win98se on sometime soon, i think that's the problem
(i have xp at the moment)
dkjsafbjk
10-07-2002, 18:46
what would deleting the dll file do?
dkjsafbjk
10-07-2002, 22:42
i deleted the gimme.dll, file and it locked up after 3 races.

i've been messing around with this game trying to get it to work, and i think all it'll do now is lockup during some races, and not restart the computer for me!...lol, any other suggestions?
bOOls eYe
11-07-2002, 00:04
someone told me that nfs5 doesn't work properly on winxp.
reinstall win98se :D
acon
11-07-2002, 11:15
:rolleyes: I gotta weird way of starting NFS PU. I have to start other games first then quit, then start NFS PU. If I start NFS PU first when starting Windows, it'll load but nothing came up except a black screen. Same way goes to the game Messiah.