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Need for Speed 2 on modern computer?

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First post, by Sandi1987

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Is there any way to play this game in Windows 8.1 x64 without nGlide?

Reply 2 of 11, by ZellSF

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Sandi1987 wrote:

Is there any way to play this game in Windows 8.1 x64 without nGlide?

Yes, but there's no reason to.

You really need to specify why not nGlide so we can suggest solutions without the problems you're encountering with nGlide. Do you need to play the software version? Don't you have a D3D9 capable GPU? Or do you have a system too slow otherwise for nGlide?

Reply 4 of 11, by VirtuaIceMan

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Software mode offers in-car cockpit view, which the Glide version does not.

Have you tried using the Direct3D wrapper from dgVoodoo2?

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Reply 7 of 11, by filipetolhuizen

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If the problem is garbled colours, DirectDraw Compatibility Tool is what you need.

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Reply 9 of 11, by Rekrul

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I had a hell of a time to get NFS2SE to run properly on my dual-core, WinXP Pro, SP3 system.

The game ran, but as soon as I got close to other cars on the track, it want into slow-motion. It didn't matter whether I used the Glide or software version, or what glide wrapper I used. After much Googling, I found some settings for the Application Compatibility Toolkit that fixed the Glide version, but the software version still ran like crap. After a lot more Googling and a lot of trial and error, I finally managed to get the software version working as well. It's been a while, but I THINK these are the settings that I used;

EmulateCDFS
EmulateGetDiskFreeSpace
GlobalMemoryStatusLie
IgnoreException
MapMemoryB0000
SingleProcAffinity

Reply 10 of 11, by God Of Gaming

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yeah, had to run it in VMWare, with application compatibility toolkit with the patches above applied, also directsound acceleration disabled in dxdiag, and I think I used dgvoodoo2 as well for the glide version as the software version was broken as fuck... This game really hates modern PCs, you might be best off building a win98 retro PC for games like this.

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