[jerikl]

Alright... I'm wondering how to get Need for Speed: Porsche Unleased working in Win 2k with an old 3D Prophet card. I seem to have the unpopular problem... it's not the memory leak, it's the DirectX problem.

The error message I receive:

You have DirectX 0. Please install DirectX 7.
Could not load ".\drivers\softdrawz\" [FILE=\real\patch3\pc\set3d.c, LINE=273]

I've tried loading numerous different drivers, including the Nvidia 12.41's. The WHQL work fine on my system, but when I install the Non-WHQL I get 16 color mode after reboot. With this, I can actually kind of half-*** load drivers and then change my settings around without rebooting and get NFS5 to recognize that I have 3d hardware. Hmmm... but when I do do this, my system is messed up and will always go back to 16 colors after reboot. Also, the only way I could think to fix this was using the Win2k repair tool on the cd... as my system WOULD NOT accept new video drivers at all... just kept on giving me errors when trying to install new drivers. The first time this happened (I installed the Non-WHQL twice just to test things out), I did something (I don't remember) to try to fix it, and when it rebooted, upon entering Win2k, it started giving me a blue screen and restarted itself, over and over. That's when I first did the Win2k repair.

So basically, has anyone else had this DirectX problem with 2k? NOT the memory leak (when the game sits at the loading screen, I can't even get to that point). Like I said, I've tried different drivers, and I've also tried reinstalling both DirectX and the game. I've tried DirectX 7.0 and 8.0a.

[jerikl]

No one has had this problem before?

[shassouneh]

did you try DirectX 8.0??? If not, try that and if it STILL gives you problems, maybe you should try un-install/re-install. good luck.
Here's the link to DirectX 8.0a (on microsoft):

http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp

good luck!

[Xiven]

Quote:

I've tried DirectX 7.0 and 8.0a.

[pmistry]

I get major problems with NFS PU with SP2, try running the game without SP2 if you can still uninstall it that is. For me under SP2, NFS PU never runs, quite frankly I don't need SP2 at all, my system runs rock solid with just SP1, and thus see no reason to update to SP2. There are many people who have had problems with SP2, especially with games.