Porsche Unleashed Patch 3.5
Well I don't want to hijack this thread anymore: I created a new topic: How to get Need for Speed Porsche running on modern OS like Win 7 in Full HD Widescreen:There are really many patches out there on the net, so some might be redundant, some are hard to find:Need for Speed - Porsche1. Install the game obviously, maybe you need to have the setup in compatibility mode.2. Official 3.5 Patch can be found here:Fast CPU Patch Fix- With CPU's faster than 'real' 2 GHZ the game only runs in the lowest details.
Porsche Unleashed Patch
Wow Patch 3.5
This Unlocks CPU's faster than 2 GHZ - ONLY in Windows XP Compatibility ModeNFSPUFastCPUPatchWidescreen HD FixSkybox Crash Patch- Might be redundant, if you use the Widecreen-HD-Patch, but game occasionally crashes on Normandie and so on. Better explained in the readme of the Widescreen-PatchAdditional Modifications- PU Bonus Cars: Adds more cars to the gamewas a patch to fix the ugly broken Windows in the Game ( vanilla they turn black when broken ), but I don't find it.I hope, I can help some people this way, it's still a nice game.
So I've been installing the Need For Speed series, as some of the guides below can attest. All the games up to NFS4 (Road Challenge/High Stakes) install fine, but on my PC (probably an Nvidia driver issue or something to do with Windows 8.1/memory/processor) I can only get NFS5 Porsche 2000 (as I have European version of Unleashed) to run as far as the splash screen, then it crashes. Tried numerous fixes including various takes on the 3.5 patch, nGlide's EmulateHeap fix, renaming gimme.dll, deleting pic16.fsh (as apparently that can help), etc. One time ever I managed to get to the profile picture select screen, but the game crashed before I could get any further!The Porsche demo does the same. Not sure if there's anyone else out there with Win8.1 and ATI that could verify it works for them? However using nGlide still gets the same crash, so it might not be Nvidia related.Moving on to NFS Hot Pursuit 2, that simply crashes right after clicking the game icon.
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The demo (from Gamershell) does the same, but works fine on my ATI Radeon HD 4600 powered Win7 64bit machine at work, so this really might be Nvidia related.Again, if anyone has any tips, wing them over! There's not much online about NFSHP2 as it wasn't that well received (I tried the 242 beta patch, same happens).On the plus side, Underground 1 & 2 and Most Wanted (2005) seem to work fine (not sure about the smoothness of the framerate in MW). More to come! Davros wrote:well give it a try it will take you 5minsYour exe does the same as the original and patched ones I've tried, crashes ntdll.dll or KERNELBASE.dllHere's the 2 errors I see most. The Exception code and Fault offset remain the same for each time each of these occurs. I will be looking at this more thoroughly in time, as there's encouraging signs it.might.
work with the right setup.I've only been running Nvidia in default driver settings so far. I tried with both AVG and Microsoft Firewall disabled. I suspect it might be something running in the background, and as I have installed about 300+ games it could be some sort of protection driver or something else that's not happy.I could try being off the net, I also want to try software mode (if it's even available in NFS5) and investigate disabling my soundcard (as I have Soundblaster Zx and onboard (disabled in BIOS) sound). Might even remove some sticks of RAM (although being paired I could only drop it from 16GB to 8GB).I was considering disabling/removing the 980 and trying to use the onboard Intel graphics on my motherboard, but as the game crashes in Glide mode I'm starting to think it's not graphics related directly.I've got a stockpile of games that crash at home on Win8.1/64bit/980/SB Zx, but are fine on work Win7/64bit/ATI Radeon HD 4600/onboard AMD sound, so might open up this debate later on.
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Supercar Street Challenge seems to exhibit a similar bug to NFS5; can even get into the menu in that 2/20 times, before it randomly crashes later.One more thing: I did a few changes to my PC to help increase the lifespan of the SSD, including disabling paging on C: drive and moving a bunch of Windows items over to D: drive from C:, but I can't think that would cause these sort of random crashes to desktop, as they seem to be memory related.Might have to try setting up a second account in Windows, though not done that before in 8.1 (or XP!). Is there any kind of Safe Mode with reduced drivers (etc) in Win8.1? Retro synths 1980s by puremagnetik rar extractor 2. Start task manager (right click taskbar), go to Startup tab and disable everything.Start msconfig (win+R, write msconfig), go to the services tab, check 'hide all Microsoft services' then uncheck all services that are not critical and reboot.There's a safe mode but I wouldn't recommend trying it for games.There's no point in disabling drivers, they usually don't cause any problems. You can try disabling graphic card driver by going to 'Device Manager' (just hit win and search for it), expanding display adapters and disabling yours. Windows 8 should fallback to software rendering when you do that.Don't think there's any point in removing RAM (though you have weird issues so your RAM could be faulty, in which case removing it makes a lot of sense).You should never disable the pagefile, so if you disabled it on C:, enable it elsewhere.You should also never move any Windows files to another drive, there's a lot of potential problems as Windows links files in weird ways: expect Windows Update to break if you move anything Windows does not have a specific function for moving.
Oldbie Posts: 1547 Joined: 2006-1-01 @ 18:19. It's very few games that crash for me, of the hundreds I've installed, and they're all around the year 2000-2002 era, curiously.If I want easy I'll install a virtual XP machine with D3D support, but that's admitting defeat!ZellSF, thanks for all the ideas. The parts of Windows I moved I did 'properly' by following some online guides, so that I have things like TEMP folder, Desktop, Documents and a bunch more mapped to D: drive instead. I doubt that's causing the crashes.I'm definitely going to look into the msconfig options, especially as I just noticed under the Boot tab Advanced options. You can limit your number of processors and maximum memory; could rule out those things. I think it's a case of just trying piece-by-piece and seeing if anything gets there, with the XP virtual machine (most likely needed for some games anyway!) and re-installing Win8.1 on another drive to boot from as fallbacks.