First post, by VirtuaIceMan
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So I've been installing the Need For Speed series, as some of the guides below can attest. All the games up to NFS4 (Road Challenge/High Stakes) install fine, but on my PC (probably an Nvidia driver issue or something to do with Windows 8.1/memory/processor) I can only get NFS5 Porsche 2000 (as I have European version of Unleashed) to run as far as the splash screen, then it crashes. Tried numerous fixes including various takes on the 3.5 patch, nGlide's EmulateHeap fix, renaming gimme.dll, deleting pic16.fsh (as apparently that can help), etc. One time ever I managed to get to the profile picture select screen, but the game crashed before I could get any further!
The Porsche demo does the same. Not sure if there's anyone else out there with Win8.1 and ATI that could verify it works for them? However using nGlide still gets the same crash, so it might not be Nvidia related.
Moving on to NFS Hot Pursuit 2, that simply crashes right after clicking the game icon. The demo (from Gamershell) does the same, but works fine on my ATI Radeon HD 4600 powered Win7 64bit machine at work, so this really might be Nvidia related.
Again, if anyone has any tips, wing them over! There's not much online about NFSHP2 as it wasn't that well received (I tried the 242 beta patch, same happens).
On the plus side, Underground 1 & 2 and Most Wanted (2005) seem to work fine (not sure about the smoothness of the framerate in MW). More to come!
My PC spec: Win10 64bit, i7-4970K (not overclocked), KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, Creative Soundblaster ZXr, 16GB RAM, Asus Z97-A motherboard, NZXT 410 case, ROG Swift GSYNC monitor