Hey, I am trying to run need for speed carbon on a laptop without a cd drive. I tried making an image of the cd on a computer with a cd drive but it did not work. When I used protectionid to determine the protection the disk it came out as safedisk 3.0. I then went to make the image in alcohol 52% and it only gave me a few data type options, 1 being DVD-COPS, Normal DVD, a few more and Safedisk, however it never gave safedisk 2,3,4, just safedisk.
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?
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Chris.
need for speed carbon and alcohol 52% problem and question
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, Jan 03 2009 02:47 AM
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 11:00 PM
Thank you for your system report, I have removed it.
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.
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.
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 12:56 AM
ok i tried to set the read speed lower but it wont let me adjust it, it is just grayed out, any other ideas?
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 03:51 AM
Is your drive on the supported drive list? You removed that section from the system report so you'll need to look it up from our site.
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 10:20 AM
The Safedisk datatype is for all the Safedisk protected DVDs( as is your disk since you have the DVD-COPS e.t.c. options). Don't you have at least the "maximum" speed option when starting the image making wizard( which may be the only one that your drive supports- at least for DVDs)?
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
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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
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:38 PM
Hey thanks for all your help.
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.
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.
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:40 PM
sorry about my last post WOOOW i need to look over my typing LOL. Anyways it was supposed to say:
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".
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".
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:46 PM
No CD/DVD patches are illegal and we provide no support, nor condone their use.
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?
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?
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 06:10 PM
I know. I don't use patches at all. I just tried as a last resort. I did not even want to try. Yes I installed the game from a virtual drive using alcohol 52%.
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.
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.
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 03:42 AM
If you don't meet the minimum graphical requirements the game will not start. For example, if it can't detect a suitable 3D graphics card (generally speaking, laptop's onboard graphics aren't up to scratch unless its a fairly recent laptop and even then, not really up to par with the desktop version) then it probably won't even give you the chance to lower anything.
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 10:53 AM
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It has an onboard intel media accelarator 224 mb graphics card.
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.
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