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Here's another one for the Problematic Windows Games Ward. A more recent one.....for a change.
Need For Speed: Heat suffers from high CPU usage as it uses the infamous and much dreaded Frostbite graphics motor. And it's not just me alone; There are THOUSANDS of users that are running into such a malady without a definitive solution for the time being.......
Here's the thread entry from the official EA Forum right here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/NEED-FOR-SPEED-HEAT … ge/td-p/8422454

EDIT: SEGA Rally Championship 2 seems to hate modern gamepads -like Microsoft's XBOX S/X- as it won't detect the primary (the leftmost one) stick, therefore rendering it as unusable for steering as opposed to most racing/driving games that i've been sourcing for the past couple years. Not even thorough XInput though. #PleaseHelp

EDIT #2: Cabela's 4x4 Off Road Adventure 3 crashes back to the desktop on modern versions of Windows to a rather stupid memory limitation imposed by the developers. Quite annoying.

EDIT #3: The original TOCA Touring Car Championship (PC, Codemasters, 1997) installer just keeps shutting down on me as i try to install it on Windows 11. #FRUSTRATING

EDIT #4: Then again....another recent game. Need For Speed: Rivals (PC, Ghost Games/EA, 2013) won't run on 64-bit versions of Windows as its corresponding binaries suffer from bad DRM implementation. #StillUnfixed

Speedwarrior956 wrote on 2022-10-12, 03:58:

Here's another one for the Problematic Windows Games Ward. A more recent one.....for a change.
Need For Speed: Heat suffers from high CPU usage as it uses the infamous and much dreaded Frostbite graphics motor. And it's not just me alone; There are THOUSANDS of users that are running into into such a malady without a definitive solution for the time being.......
Here's the thread entry from the official EA Forum right here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/NEED-FOR-SPEED-HEAT … ge/td-p/8422454

Probably this doesn't match the criteria of the first post. Anyways, this is (was) a real issue and I had to follow the same steps. Frostbite has been used for way too long imo, and such inefficiencies will exist.

I'm surprised Necrovision and Necrovision: Lost Company haven't been mentioned yet. Both games frequently have gamebreaking bugs that haven't ever been fixed as far as I know. The worst seems to be that in chapter 6 of NV: LC, people often encounter a "script error" that can make further progress impossible. Strangely the games do work fine for some people even on Win10; it's not clear why the games are so broken for some but not others.

UPDATE: SEGA Rally 2 (SEGA, 1999) won't show its Device Settings prompt thorough the game's launcher as the required file -SR2_CPL.cpl- appears to be missing, thus making impossible to rebind them driving commands to either any joystick, gamepad or steering controller for that matter. #PleaseHelp

Speedwarrior956 wrote on 2023-04-14, 15:48:

UPDATE: SEGA Rally 2 (SEGA, 1999) won't show its Device Settings prompt thorough the game's launcher as the required file -SR2_C […]
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UPDATE: SEGA Rally 2 (SEGA, 1999) won't show its Device Settings prompt thorough the game's launcher as the required file -SR2_CPL.cpl- appears to be missing, thus making impossible to rebind them driving commands to either any joystick, gamepad or steering controller for that matter. #PleaseHelp

Most games of that era run the "Set up USB Game controllers" now. Maybe opening that is what you need.

No, SEGA Rally 2 has its very own control panel applet and can't install it.