No One Lives Forever and Win2K

[Phobic9]

Ok, I haven't played NOLF in a while (I beat it but it's still a fun game) and I have been trying to get it to work successfully on Win2K (and the latest WinXP beta) and I can only see the menu screen for about 2 seconds before the PC reboots itself. I have reinstalled Windows, updated sound and video drivers, latest NOLF patches... nada. All my other games run flawlessly which bugs me because I really like this game. Any other suggestions?

 

[Jal]

Here are some replies at NTCompatible.com

No One Lives Forever (Fox Interactive) No WinXP 03/01
No One Lives Forever (Fox Interactive) No WinXP 03/01
WinXP build 2296 (whistler beta 1)
No one lives forever (Monolith/Fox) Yes W2000 01/01
Received the follow messages:
1) Works fine
2) bad: lots of video banding on almost all high resolutions under win2k pro sp1 geforce 2 gts..guess we wait for a patch from Monolith to fix
3) won't run at all under win2k pro sp1 gf2gts, even with the new patch..tried 2 clean installs of win2k sp1 but game still will not run...just hangs the sytem, needing a hard reboot
4) Installs, loads and plays fine! Probably the best single-player game since Half-Life!! Game is patched. Athlon, Voodoo3, Win2K SP1

 

[Dan]

Phobic9: I'm surprised. I have NOLF installed and play it occasionally on Win2K. I have SP2 installed but the game is the original, i.e., no patches, updates, etc.

I also have an AMD-based system (Duron 700 at 1083MHz). On the other hand, I notice you're using an ATI Radeon and a Hercules Game Theater. I'm using a CardExpert GeForce2 MX and a SoundBlaster Live! Value sound card (the original one). Just conjecture, but I wonder if one of those components, rather than Win2K might be the culprit?

 

[rbV5]

NOLF runs well on my Win2k rig (don't play it much though) don't remember any patches, but its been awhile since I played it.

 

[Phobic9]

Thanks for the input, but I think Dan may be on to something. The last time I played NOLF was on WIN98 but I when I upgraded to Win2K I also upgraded my sound card to the GTXP. If it is the sound card, it's really a shame because it sounds great. I'll have to investigate some more.

Edit: Well, it's the Game Theater XP. After I disabled the sound and music through NOLF's options, the game worked flawlessly... with no sound. I guess it's time to get e-mailing.