Any idea how to get NFS4 to install in win2k?

[Mrfrog840]

It says its only compatible in windows 95 and 98....
i know ive played it with win2k....
Isnt there anyway around this?
i am running win2k

 

[minendo]

need for speed 4

 

[Bullhonkie]

I'm not really sure, have you tried asking him?

In all seriousness, a good place to check if you haven't already is NT Compatible. And this article on 3DSpotlight details how you can use the Application Compatibility Utility to try and trick programs into thinking they're running under a different OS.

 

[ElFenix]

compatibility mode? have you just tried installing it? usually that works...

 

[Haircut]

Firstly create a shortcut to setup.exe on the CD. Right click on the shortcut and go to compatibility tab. Select windows 95 compatibility.

You should now be able to run the installer, if it gives you any errors just ignore them.

After installing the installer program will probably hang, so you will need to end task from task manager after if has stopped doing anything.

Get a patch
here

Run the patch using Windows 95 compatibility, same as above by creating shortcut etc.

Now, you need to apply a registry patch.

Copy all the text between the asterisks and call it something like nfs4.reg and run it.
********

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed High Stakes]
"3D Device Description"="Direct3D Device1"
"3D Card"="Direct3D Device1"
"Thrash Driver"="d3d"
"Group"="D3D"
"D3D Device"=dword:00000000
"Triple Buffer"=dword:00000000
"Hardware Acceleration"=dword:00000001
"Thrash Resolution"="640x480"

*********



Worked for me anyway.

 

[bigrash]

NFS4 worked for me in win2k when I changed the compatibility mode. I think I changed it to win98 and it worked fine.

 

[microAmp]

<< It says its only compatible in windows 95 and 98....
i know ive played it with win2k....
Isnt there anyway around this?
i am running win2k >>



I take it you tried to install it on W2K? I have a site that will say what games are workable on W2K but I'm at work, and the saved favorite is at home, it'll be 3 1/2 before I can find out.

If you haven't tried, it might work, had games like that Half-Life still work under W2K.

 

[Instagib]

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<< need for speed 4 >>



I c. If it says it's incopatible, don't bother trying to prove the opposite, IMO. You could always go dualboot, set up WinME on one partition, and Win2k/XP on the other. It would solve all the probs with the incompatibility, and would take much less time and effort, I believe. >>



,
Yeah I'll get right on it .)

 

[yakko]

Why don't you PM him and ask if he even wants to be installed first?

 

[LordMaul]

I dunno...what kind of wallpaper does Win2k have? If it's not Nissan....:Q

 

[Aceman]

NFS4 might get a bit upset if you tried to install him in win2k. I really don't know how big of a guy he is, but I still wouldn't try it!

 

[Instagib]

yeah i partioned Win Me and NFS4 works great now. Except for this wierd unexplainable rebooting problem.

 

[fr]

I've been wanting to play NFS4 for a long time. I followed Haircut's instructions, but it keeps saying "Please Insert Game Disk" when I try to play it. I have the original CD and it's in the drive.

 

[trmiv]

<< I've been wanting to play NFS4 for a long time. I followed Haircut's instructions, but it keeps saying "Please Insert Game Disk" when I try to play it. I have the original CD and it's in the drive. >>




Wow, I didn't know NFS4 swung that way.

 

[joohang]

<< Why don't you PM him and ask if he even wants to be installed first? >>

 

[randomlinh]

i got it working fine before.. i believe you just had to replace the exe... or patch.. i never used any compatibility mode... but i can't seem to find the info (ntcompatible doesn't seem to be working for me)