The 3Dfx version using DGVoodoo works perfectly here on a Vista 32 bit, Core 2 Duo system. But I have a Geforce GTS 250 card.

Here are the settings I am using in Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit.

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EmulateCDFS, EmulateGetFreeDiskSpace, GlobalMemoryStatusLie, Ignore Exception, MapMemoryB0000, SingleProcAffinity.

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Regarding DGVoodoo settings, use the default ones, except changing rendering API to Directdraw7 & Directx7 in Global tab, and in Glide tab, make sure to enable Use hardware vertex buffers to get proper speed.

As a side note, I have an X-Fi card, and using Alchemy for NFS2SE fixes all audio corruption that I was experiencing. Even though NFS2SE doesn't use EAX, it still makes good use of the patched dsound.dll, because it is obviously using Directsound.

That's all, hope it works out for you. 😀

doomer wrote:

The 3Dfx version using DGVoodoo works perfectly here on a Vista 32 bit, Core 2 Duo system. But I have a Geforce GTS 250 card.

Here are the settings I am using in Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit.

Thanks, but unfortunately that didn't help at all. I made sure to copy your settings exactly, but I get the exact same results as before. It seems to work, but when setting the controls, the menus behave as if it's a 25Mhz system, the race starts OK (if you don't count the stutter as the camera moves up to the starting line) and then as soon as you get close to the other cars, it slows down to about 5 FPS.

Try nGlide.

Gamecollector wrote:

Try nGlide.

Ok, I'll try it. However a problem with the glide wrapper wouldn't affect the software rendering version of the game, because that doesn't use 3D hardware at all. Yet, no matter what fixes I try, the software version runs even worse than the 3D version. My old Win98SE system used to run both perfectly.

Using the suggested fixes in the Compatibility Toolkit, does the software rendered version work properly for everyone else? For me, the entire game runs at about half speed. The opening logo takes at least twice as long to come up, the game itself runs slow, etc.

Today I made a fix for it. You need ACT 5.x to use it. However, it doesn't correct the messed up colours.

Weird, it works fine on my XP SP3, at least it did the last time I ran it. I might have used compatibility toolkit, would need to look into it to remember, but I know you have to copy across the nfssea executable for 3Dfx then I used DGVoodoo as it was more compatible than Zeckensack... but nGlide is probably better now. I can look into it later on.

I believe the software version runs fine too, will check to see what's going on when I remember heh

the 3dfx version randomly crashes if you're not running it on Single Process Affinity mode, as well as the software version and the original NFS SE, but this causes massive stutterings on the 3dfx version and NFSSE. NFS2SEN and NFS2 do not exhibit this.