need for speed carbon and alcohol 52% problem and question
#1
Posted 03 January 2009 - 02:47 AM
I chose DVD-COPS and made the image transfered it to my laptop and mounted it in alcohol 52%. It installed fine, but when i go to run the game, it shows the loading logo at the desktop for a millisecond then the screen goes black and then it returns to my computer desktop with no errors. Whats wrong?
Thanks,
Chris.
#3
Posted 03 January 2009 - 11:00 PM
Use the SafeDisk datatype with a slow read speed would be your best bet to make a working image. SafeDisk protected titles are quite hadware dependant when backing them up, with some drives not being too good at this protection and others, quite good.
#4
Posted 04 January 2009 - 12:56 AM
#5
Posted 04 January 2009 - 03:51 AM
#6
Posted 04 January 2009 - 10:20 AM
However it is weird that a DVD has such an earlier version of Safedisk. Did you try to scan the game's installation folder with Protection ID too? You could also check it in Alcohol's copy protection of games database but I can't find any link to it from the forum .
#7
Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:38 PM
sorry i forgot to mention in my last post that the speed is maximum but grayed out.
I tried checking with protection id and it came out as "safedisk 4.000-removed version". Obviously cause i made the image with safe disk enabled.
Still Im getting the game crashing to the desktop with no error right after the EA logo. The screen goes blank and then goes back to my desktop.
I tried installing it from the cd on another computer with a dvd drive and it worked fine. One thing I noticed is when I used it on alcohol 52% on my laptop that does not contain
a dvd drive, when the install wizard began, it came up and said "earegistration has encountered an error and needs to close". It did not do that on my computer with the dvd drive.
Im wondering if the problem is something to do with the file transfers and nothing to do with the game protection. I tried a no-dvd ###### and it crashed to the desktop at the same time, except it showed an error "NFSC.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close".
What do you suggest I try? I badly want to play this game on my laptop!
Chris.
#8
Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:40 PM
I tried a no-dvd PATCH instead of (######) and it crashed to the desktop at the same time, except it showed an error "NFSC.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close".
#9
Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:46 PM
What sort of laptop are you trying to run this game on? Is it possible that it does not meat the minimal requirements or have the necessary graphics card oomph to run it?
Did you install the game from the virtual drive?
#10
Posted 04 January 2009 - 06:10 PM
I have a acer aspire one netbook with 1 gb ddr2 ram and an intel atom 1.6 ghz cpu. It has an oboard intel media accelarator 224 mb graphics card. Im running windows xp home.
I know i would have to lower the graphics to low but i dont care. Id rather that than nothing.
any ideas to why it would be crashing to the desktop?
Chris.
#11
Posted 05 January 2009 - 03:42 AM
#12
Posted 05 January 2009 - 10:53 AM
Am afraid that an onboard graphics solution would surely be pretty poor. There are laptops with good graphics solutions( mine has a NVDIA Go 6800 graphics card) but an onboard solution is something else.
Edited by Charalambos, 05 January 2009 - 10:54 AM.
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