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Out of fustration I restarted my computer, double checked the CD in the drive was clean and started it, and it worked! This time the "Safedisk" screen did not come up. I quit a game, not realizing it would dumpt he whole game and tried to restart it... Again it is now dumping me back to the desktop again with the "Safedisk" bit coming up first.

Bought NHL 2002 today and brought it home wanting to start playing as soon as possible, and there are problems (at least for me) with this version very much like there were with NHL 2001... The issue is that it installs okay, but moments after the screen goes black for it to load it dumps me back to the desktop. System: P4 1.7ghz GeForce2 GTS (latest driver) DirectX 8 256MB RAM Soundblaster Live Wondering if anyone else has managed to get this one going.

If you cannot start the game in Direct3D you likely have a Voodoo2 or 3 card like myself. The documentation for the game says that if you do have those cards there is nothing you can do but run the game in software mode, which is no good. I have been putting off getting a good card for a long time but I dont think I can anymore.

Well, I will try not to complain like a child and more than likely I am not going to install WindowsXP if these security measures are put into place. At first I had heard it was only manditory registration that was in the software which I can accept just fine. The rest of it however is going to I think end up causing them ALOT of problems. If not by the outcry but perhaps by the extra staff they are going to have to hire to hand out these new keys when people change their systems around.

I will just chime in here as well in saying that Active Perl works wonders on an NT system (as I use it to run a copy of UBB). Of course the scripts that will not work are those that need to use sendmail in order to run. However many scripts lately give you the option to use other programs for mail such as Blat and Aspemail.

I posted about this when it first came out and am very, very happy they finally did something about the 2K issue! The version # for anyone curious is 1.03. I had my doubts they were going to do something about it but it is good to see they did.

I've asked this before but it was awhile ago so perhaps more people have (or at least any) have had this problem. The program loads find and will run for awhile fine but it will always eventually lock up when choosing something from one of the menus. I have a lot of free memory and it is usually the only program open when I am using it. Has anyone else run into any problems with Photohop 6? Windows 2K Server Pentium III 650MHZ 256MB RAM

I have heard this one does work, not well but it will work if you kick it enough. I will try to find out exactly how. In the mean time it is best to go for the easy things in case you have not done them. Make sure you have Blood II patched up to version 2.10 which you can find at http://www.the-chosen.com/patch/ ------------------

I have tried it on my system here as well and it fails every time. I do not know why EA seems to put no effort into Windows2K at all. Take "Alice" for example they even put on the box that Windows2K is not supported when the game works 100% just fine.

All I did to get to v1.03 which works with Windows2000 now is I ran the update program from my Start Menu, it did the little update thingy and then I started the program and say the version had been updated. Running the update utility is not giving you 1.03?

I found the answer to the above question by doing a little digging. So if anyone else is having the problem of not being able to load a saved game in the game (without the loopy addon and what not) all you have to do is find the savegame in Explorer, double click on it and have it open with the program file. Not the best of ways to get something going but it does work when you do that. I was a little afraid I wasnt going to be able to play the game... it's to addictive. :-)

The game installs just fine and so long as you play a new game it seems to work find as well. However when I try to load a saved game it just kicks me right back to the desktop. Anyone else managed to load a game after they have started one?

The game works for me okay as well with the only glitches being sometimes the first few seconds of the movies stutter but they seem to even out before I've missed anything. The game otherwise seems like a solid 2K release. Pentium III 600mhz 256MB RAM, Voodoo3 3500TV Soundblaster Live!

"C:\Program Files\EACOM\Update\update.exe" -id NHL2001 -url "http://nhl2001.downloads.ea.com/games/EACom/NHL2001/NA" -dir "g:\NEWNHL~1" -cdpath "H:" -checkandupdate -indexrequired That is the full path at least to the update program that I have installed on my computer. The paths and such to where you have it installed of course are going to be different. The version (it will say when loading) that works with Win2K fine is v1.03

Woohoo! Finally! Run the update program for NHL 2001 to make the program goto v1.03. This new version seems to have FINALLY fixed the problem with NHL 2001 and Windows2K. Please let me know if this works for everyone else.