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Need For Speed 3, 4 and 5 not working under XP

#1 BaRaBaS

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Posted 15 October 2002 - 04:20 AM

Hi, I have Windows XP Pro installed on my computer and just now I've reinstalled my NFS games (3, 4, and 5). None of those seem to work, are there any patches available for this problem? Thanks in advance

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#2 Admiral LSD

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Posted 15 October 2002 - 06:35 AM

NFS3 works fine here. I have to run it as Administrator in order to enable hardware 3D acceleration but the game itself works fine.

#3 Helshad

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Posted 15 October 2002 - 11:23 AM

Try and remove gimme.dll from the games main folder. It worked for me

#4 BaRaBaS

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Posted 15 October 2002 - 07:22 PM

There isn't a gimme.dll, any other suggestions maybe?

BTW, Porshe unleashed is up and running now

#5 pmistry

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Posted 20 October 2002 - 10:22 PM

I have no problems and do not need any sort of compatibility update to get NFS 3 or NFS 4 working under Windows XP. There is a download compatibility update for NFS 5, download it at MS's web site or get SP1. However, even without that NFS5 worked fine for me.

#6 Yearout

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Posted 21 October 2002 - 02:34 AM

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For Need for speed high staks I found a "nfshspatch450" and the it worked great. And PORSCHE just works great. At 1st I tried compatibility and it worked but man it was slow. I turned if off and now every thing works...

#7 Bluegill

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Posted 31 October 2002 - 07:37 PM

Where did you find that patch? My updater is not working properly in the game itself.

Thanks!

#8 pmistry

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Posted 05 November 2002 - 04:11 PM

You can get NFS: High Stakes downloads here:

http://www.gamesdomain.com/patches/n/3237.html

#9 Bluegill

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Posted 05 November 2002 - 06:05 PM

Got it.

Didn't matter

#10 regan

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Posted 16 November 2002 - 01:29 AM

I still cannot get nfs3 to work on my cpu.....i have the force feedback pro joystick (gameport version..i think..its definitly not usb). i can use the arrows without a problem but whenevr i use the joystick it gets all choppy.

help

#11 SkyyFox

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Posted 24 November 2002 - 01:20 AM

I could not get any NFS game to work on XP. The only one that works is hot pursuit 2 (the new one) I suggest you buy this game, and get a geforce4 for it! porche unleashed sorta works but crashes sometimes.

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