Windows XP + NFS III or Road Challenge

[TheCorm]

Hi there, I cannot seem to get NFS III or NFS Road Challenge working on Windows XP Pro, is it just not gonna happen?

I would update but the updater doesn't work, anywhere I can download patches that might help?

I click on the shortcut, it thinks for a second and then nothing happens....

Jamie

 

[theAnimal]

You could try searching on NT Compatible

And you may find a patch at The Patches Scrolls

 

[TheCorm]

Thanks for that, says NFS III is not compatible with XP but Road Challenge is...will have a fiddle with the latter....

 

[Haircut]

I got NFS RC working with Windows 2000 a while ago (presumably doing the same thing will work for XP too), I'll see if I can dig up the steps anywhere.

EDIT, found the instructions

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 (not including asterisks though) and call it something like nfs4.reg and run it.
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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"

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