NFS5-PU on Windows 2000, no work?

[FlamingPanther]

Has anybody ever gotten Need For Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed to work on windows 2k?

I got it to work once a long time ago, but I hadn't tried in awhile, and now it doesn't work.

Any ideas?
Like, "Its never worked, you must be crazy!" or something.

Thanks

FP

 

[jeffrey]

"Any ideas?
Like, "Its never worked, you must be crazy!" or something."

Don't give up. It can work. bump for someone who might know.

 

[maddmax]

Try renaming gimme.dll to something else. Also try setting swapfile size to 256mb min and max. Good luck, I think this fixes it for most not all. forum link I think try the swapfile first.

 

[Pakaderm]

It works fine for me on Win2k. I did have problems at first, but after looking at this I was able to get it to work. I think you have to try what madmax said.

-Pak

 

[FlamingPanther]

thanks a bunch, testing now, I will post the results

 

[FlamingPanther]

I tried to just rename the file and run it.
It would work, but would have a memory leak error after awhile.

Setting the Min and Max swap file sizes the same fixed it.
I have 512Megs of ram, and now that I think about it,
I only had 128Megs last time I ran NFS5-PU.
I set the Swap-file to 1024-1024Megs, It was 1024-16384Megs!

16 GIGS before it would crash!

Anywho.
Thanks ya'll!
FP



Edit* something I must note, NFS5 requires an 8 Bit stencil buffer to work, the latest ATI drivers (6014-6032)
Have it disabled by default.
See this thread for more info
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=727182