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No One Lives Forever and Win2K

Phobic9

Phobic9

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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?
 
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

 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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