Need For Speed 3, 4 and 5 not working under XP

Hi, I have Windows XP Pro installed on my computer and just now I've reinstalled my NFS games (3, 4, and 5). None of those seem to work, are there any patches available for this problem? Thanks in advance BaRaBaS.

Windows Games 5469 This topic was started by BaRaBaS, 2002-10-15 02:20

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BaRaBaS

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#96193

2002-10-15 04:20

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Post-cloning of drive, why is bootup so slow?

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Admiral LSD

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#96194

2002-10-15 06:35

NFS3 works fine here. I have to run it as Administrator in order to enable hardware 3D acceleration but the game itself works fine.

Helshad

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#96195

2002-10-15 11:23

Try and remove gimme.dll from the games main folder. It worked for me

BaRaBaS

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#96196

2002-10-15 19:22

There isn't a gimme.dll, any other suggestions maybe?

BTW, Porshe unleashed is up and running now

pmistry

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#96197

2002-10-20 22:22

I have no problems and do not need any sort of compatibility update to get NFS 3 or NFS 4 working under Windows XP. There is a download compatibility update for NFS 5, download it at MS's web site or get SP1. However, even without that NFS5 worked fine for me.

Yearout

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#96198

2002-10-21 02:34

Quote:Hi, I have Windows XP Pro installed on my computer and just now I've reinstalled my NFS games (3, 4, and 5). None of those seem to work, are there any patches available for this problem? Thanks in advance

BaRaBaS

For Need for speed high staks I found a "nfshspatch450" and the it worked great. And PORSCHE just works great. At 1st I tried compatibility and it worked but man it was slow. I turned if off and now every thing works...

Bluegill

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#96199

2002-10-31 18:37

Where did you find that patch? My updater is not working properly in the game itself.

Thanks!

pmistry

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#96200

2002-11-05 15:11

You can get NFS: High Stakes downloads here:

http://www.gamesdomain.com/patches/n/3237.html

Bluegill

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#96201

2002-11-05 17:05

Got it.

Didn't matter

regan

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#96202

2002-11-16 00:29

I still cannot get nfs3 to work on my cpu.....i have the force feedback pro joystick (gameport version..i think..its definitly not usb). i can use the arrows without a problem but whenevr i use the joystick it gets all choppy.

help

SkyyFox

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#96203

2002-11-24 00:20

I could not get any NFS game to work on XP. The only one that works is hot pursuit 2 (the new one) I suggest you buy this game, and get a geforce4 for it! porche unleashed sorta works but crashes sometimes.

SkyyFox