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Remember its a NO CD cracked .exe. The movie vids and music are in directories on the cd. Just copy them over to the same dir on your computer and you will have them back. When you signed up for your EA racing account did you print out the "account confirmation" page with your user name and password? They are also syntax sensitive, so if you accidentally have Caplock on it won't work. You also need to choose a name no one else will probably use. I had originally picked "Krash", but if someone is already using this name online, it won't let you connect to the servers. Let me know if this helps.

Getting the game to run is the first step. Next you have to go to EA Racing site and setup an online racing account. After you have that, startup the game and try to log onto internet racing. It will probably tell you you need to update the game. Let it do that. If you update recently, it will set you to version 3.5 for the game and will replace your cracked .exe with an EA original that won't work in Win2k. Go back to http://www.gamecopyworld.com and download the new cracked .exe for your version (which should be 3.5). Put the new .exe in your game dir and use it to start the game. You should now be able to logon to the EA servers with your account login and pass and proceed to get in some games. Good Luck.

Part of the problem for me was the CD player would autorun as soon as a disk is put in. On the first disk I had time to shut it down before the autorun kicked in. The install went fine until it asked for the second disk, and then it wasn't recognized in any of my drives. My way around that was to have each of the disks sitting in a drive on the computer. Then I ran setup and when the game asked for the 2nd disk, I browsed to the drive where it was and the install finished no problem. If you only have one drive, you can try disabling autorun for data/audio cd's and that may work also. But you might have a lot of fun re-enabling autorun even using tweak-ui. :-)

Using the S3/Diamond beta drivers are a bad idea. First off they don't work. The installation won't finish because it can't find a file and then terminates. It never reported what file it was looking for. After that, you can't install any other USB modem driver, because it keeps defaulting to that useless Diamond driver which won't install. Go to this site: http://www.zoom.com/techsprt/win2k.shtml and download the Zusb2000.exe file. Extract it to a dir of your choice. Plug in your Supra modem, and when it asks you for a driver, select the .inf file from Zoom for your modem and it should work no problem. It did for me anyway. I don't have 56k v.90 lines up here, so I can't guarantee that will work, but 33.6 worked excellent with no random disconnects. Gaming was also very steady in positional games like NFS Porsche and Motocross Madness 2. Hope this helps.

I have both TNT2 Ultra and just purchased Asus6800(GeForce 32meg DDR). I want Asus 7700 but will wait until prices drop. I read on many boards there is not much difference between TNT2 and GeForce, but I have to disagree. The GeForce is a much better card and can handle much higher resolutions and colour depths. I can play NFS5, MCM2 and Vampire in 1600X1200x32 with all options on high and very good framerates. The best I could get from TNT2 was 1280x1024x16. If a person only has a 17" monitor they will never need this power, but 19" and up owners will. Prices are getting very good on the DDR GeForces. I got the Asus6800 for US$197.00 and there are likely better prices out there than I found.

Post some of your system specs first to make it easier for the members to try and help. Things like your video card type, driver version, processor type and speed, motherboard type, bios version, agp setting. Did you recently flash your video bios or do you overclock?

No problems here either. I can also overburn them about 7 meg with out problems, and these are all generic 8X 80 min. Plextor 4/12, Plextor 12/20 and Pioneer DVD-115

It also works perfect for me. BUT only after deleting half-life, re-installing the game, and downloading and installing the version 1.1.0.0 patch before doing anything else. Then half-life, team fortress and counter strike work perfectly.

I'm also with the Corporate crowd. Symantec actually did a really good job with this version. Haven't had a single problem with this program.

The game is working finally. I downloaded the 1.1 patch last night. The one that will upgrade any version of half-life. I reinstalled half-life this morning. Bit of problem there. Auto-run generated errors. I had to reboot, open explorer and run setup.exe from the cd manually. It gave an error message about some "current control set + vxd + more microsoftincompatibility16bitbull****:-)". Just click on ignore and the game will install. Don't try running the game yet. Go to the downloaded patch and install it first. Then run the game and it should be ok. I tried playing in d3d at 1280x960, but it was very jerky. I also couldn't save properly, because when I hit "esc" to get to the save menu, all I got was a black screen. Hit "esc" to get back to the game, "alt-tab" to minimize and use task manager to shut down the game. I restarted the game, changed video to 1024x768 in "default" Open GL and it worked great. You can now use the "esc" key to access the save/load/quit/etc. menu. Have to say after 2 years, the game still makes the hairs on the back of my neck still stand up. Hope this helps you people out. PIII550 Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra with 5.22 drivers Aureal 8830 reference drivers Lots of ram, hd giggage, big frigging monitor Counterstrike here I come. Good luck all.

Pikey, I have exactly the same symptoms as you. I have tried the compat patch without success. I don't need the tweaked half-life .inf, because I run my desktop in 16 bit. I also tried using the half-life game update and spent most of one day d/loading the latest patch(10 days ago), only to try and unpack the update and got crc errors. I want to play the game again, and try counterstrike, so I will use up one more night and download the latest update from the fastest mirror I can find.

My personal experience with Win2k gaming has been very positive. The only game I haven't been able to play has been half-life. Pretty much everything else I'm interested in plays, and plays better than it ever did in any version of win 9.x I don't bother with benchmarking since I stopped o/c'ing. Its no big deal to lose a bit of framerate, when the games no longer crash, don't jitter or lag (well Messiah shouldn't count because it was broken in any OS), and generally run smooth as butter. This isn't with a balls to the wall system either, just a middle of the road one. Granted I do have a lot of memory, and even when I insist memory is one of the most important pieces of hardware on message boards, people tend to scoff at the idea. Then again, those people seem to be the one's with the most problems :-) Case in point, I was playing Motocross Madness 2 in 1920x1440x16 the other day with about 15-17fps. Almost playable and this was with a TNT2 Ultra. How many people with win9.x can do the same thing? Its a personal preference, but to me Win2k is the best OS for everything I do with a computer.

I hope you have better luck with those drivers than I did. I tried installing them yesterday morning. Everything was going fine until win2k reported there was a file missing and couldn't finish the installation. No big deal I thought, I'll just re-install with the Zoom drivers that were working instead. Only problem was that windows insisted on trying to install the S3 inf and wouldn't let me choose any other file. I went into the registry and deleted every key with a reference to the "sup2780_w2k.inf" file hoping that windows would forget about it. No luck there, all I accomplished was screwing windows up so bad it wouldn't install any modem after that. I had to reinstall windows, and then I was able to install my modem again, but I didn't bother trying those useless beta files from S3. Hopefully you had better luck with them than I did.

Sure Thing works fine on my win2k setup.

I live in a remote area of Northern Ontario. A lot of business owners including myself have upgraded to Win2k technology because it is superior to other networking/apps/games OS's. Because we are remote, no major providers will supply broadband internet technology because of the costs involved. We have to live with 56k for at least another year or two. That doesn't make us either poor or ignorant, just stuck with low grade internet technology. You ever hear of Placer Dome or Weyerhauser?

I got my retail Porsche Unleashed yesterday. I immediately updated it, (ver 3.4) and then deleted gimme.dll and replaced Porsche.exe with one from http://www.megagames.com in order to make the game run in win2k. The problem is when I try to connect to internet games on EA Racing and sign in using my account, I get the message "The host of this game is running a different version", and can go no further. Has anyone been able to connect to internet racing using win2k, and if so, can you please explain exactly how you did it and what cracked .exe you used to run the game? Thanks.

I found a cracked .exe for version 3.4 that works for internet multiplay on http://www.gamecopyworld.com

The first thing I had tried after up[censored] the game was running it with the new EA .exe. It won't work on my system. I still get the one gig caching problem. The only way the game will run is with a cracked .exe, but that results in a version conflict when trying to play internet multiplayer on EA racing. I have a TNT Ultra, which is probably the reason I need a cracked .exe to run the game at all.

Bell just installed a centrix data circuit (digital) 56k this morning. I asked for this circuit so I could have dedicated 56k for my business. We have no broadband technology here. The tech tested the circuit and said it checked ok. I tried to use it to connect to my internet provider and nothing happens. I called Bell and asked them why I can't use the line and they said I must have a hardware problem, and as far as they were concerned, the circuit is fine and the rest is up to me to deal with. I've been calling modem manufacturers and other telco utilities and no one seems to know anything about this. Besides the fact that Bell charged me a lot of money to install this line, I am totally p*ssed they expect me to know more about this technology than they do. Anyways, if I can't find out if any modem will be able to use this line in short order, I am going to tell them to stick it up their collective data switches. If anyone knows anything about this technology, I would be extremely grateful for some assistance.

I'm with the vortex2 cards. I have a Montego2, and in win98 with the latest drivers and software the sound was ok but never grabbed me. When I installed win2k the card wasn't recognized, but a friend was over and found an Aureal 8830 driver somewhere. It was from some beta site. Anyways, after installing the driver the sound was improved drastically. The next time I played UT I heard things I didn't know were in the game, and positional was front and back perfect. Not only gaming sound was improved, but all sound including mp3 and cd audio. My friend has the Sblive Platinum and he has sound trouble all the time. My personal experience and plenty of reviews indicate that the aureal codecs and processing power are still the best in the industry. Try the reference 8830 drivers at this url: http://www.vortexofsound.com/drivers/drv_v2wdm.htm Hopefully they will work for you.

You don't need a driver file, the sidewinder has native support in win2k. Go to control panel/gamecontrollers/add and select "Microsoft Sidewinder (autodetect)" from the list of controllers. It will find your controller no problem. If you have any controllers listed before searching for the new one, make sure you remove them.

Very happy up here. I was just notified today my copy of MCM2 is on its way to Canada. Checkout http://www.betabites.com and look at the contest winners listed under April 24. I'm the eighth one (The Canadian) listed there. I'll let you all know if and how well it runs in Win2k. No *****ing out Canadians please. Our Local just ended an almost 4 year strike at our gold mine here with everyone being terminated and the Local was dissolved as part of the severance package. Winning this game today has been one of the few bright spots in the last few years. What really surprises me is I was able to fill out the submission form and hit the submit button in time to make the first ten people. I have only a crappy 26.4 connection to the internet.

You guys were right about MCM2 preview. It looks like an early beta2 build. I was hoping it was a release candidate. Very limited functionality in Win2k. I tested it for several hours on two systems here with very poor results. The game recognized both 3d cards (Rage Fury and TNT2 Ultra) at startup, but you can't select past 640x480 in options. You can in software, but don't even go there. The interface needs polishing and is very slow. I tried 3 different drivers on the Ultra, with no change. (3.78,3.81,5.13) The worst part is that the game doesn't even see my Sidewinder 3Dpro stick and Sidewinder gamepad. Hard to believe they don't have native support for their own hardware. I played in 640x480 for about an hour with the keyboard and I have to say that this game will rock if they ever get some compatability happening. I haven't felt this kind of immersion and speed in a game in a long time. Flying over the crest of a hill only to realize you are now dropping over a hundred feet straight down into a forest, gave me vertigo in the worst way. I can't wait for more!! One last thing. The EULA states you can make one backup copy of the software for archival purposes. Pretty much an empty offer, because not even Blind Read can get past the security on this game. So when you all do buy the game, take good care of the disk until somebody figures out a no-cd .exe or you will be buying another copy. Cheers.

I feel the same way. Partion Magic WAS the definitive tool for changing hard drive properties while still in the GUI of our windows OS's. It seems they have been stumped by Window 2000. If they can't provide a working solution, I hope some other company will release a similar and better program.

I've tried placing my .jpg or .bmp in the root and every other possibly relevant dir in the game and the license picture doesn't show up in multi or factory. Its a small issue anyways. At least the game runs wicked in win2000. Can't say that about very many EA products.