Need for speed

[pwig]

Is it possible to play this on XP?

[lockstock2sb]

If its NFS 2 or 1 its unlikely - i tried it and failed !! Shame as i love NFS 2

[Mr Whippy]

It's possible to get NFS4 working eventually with lots of messing about.

Best one of them all too


Porsche works fine in XP from what I remember.

Then all the others ain't worth bothering with anyway

Dave

nah it's NFS 1 I want

[wingchundave]

Yeah it's possible. Turn off all audio acceleration by running dxdiag then it should work.

[pwig]

dxdiag?

[lockstock2sb]

Hmm i dunno... i installed NFS1 and then set it up for 95 compatability mode and it didnt work - i cant imagine the audio acceleration being an issue. I could be wrong though !!

Pwig - just a thought...you could try a program called dosbox http://dosbox.sourceforge.net. Its free and runs most of my dos games like duneII etc etc... you'll have to follow some instructions to mount it up and get it running but theres a possability that could run it on xp !! You can slow the game down as well if its too fast.

Let me know if you try it !

Steve



>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Tuesday 22 November 22:23

[pwig]

Will do, when I try to install it, it says 'D:/wwfdewf/qwqfw/www.tg is too small to estimate data strm' Now obvisouly I made up the wwwftt thing cos i can't remember the path

CHeers will try the link

[pwig]

Ok I gave up after 5 mins, that's waayyy to complex

[wingchundave]

Trust me. I have it working.

The audio acceleration on the later versions of Direct X cause problems with older games.

Just select run. Then type dxdiag. Select the sound tab and drag the slider all the way to the left.
It'll now run fine.

Windows compatability mode doesn't do st.

[pwig]

Nope, still said such and such a file is too small to estimate date stream when I go to install it.

[wingchundave]

I'll have a play around with my installation when I get the chance and see if I can provoke it to tell me the same.

There is another way.....

Get yourself a copy of Microsoft's Virtual PC. Install it and then use it as a Windows 98 or 95 emulator. (You have to have the relevant media, it doesn't come with those OS'). Then you should be able to run any older game as before.

I occasionally use it for things that refuse to work properly under XP.