Mr.Guvernment 0 Posted February 8, 2001 okay, i have installed it 5 times,formatted my computer (had to anyways) installed it rigth away, then took it out, then added sp1, and a bunch of over updates etc etc, then insatlled it again..and not'n, i double click the exe and it shows the quick splash scrren, then thas it i go into task manger to see if anything is runn'n but it's not , and yes, i copied the cracked exe over aswell (no this is not a bought game, but like many of ea's games i will by it if i like it, for they are teh only company that seems to knwo how to mkae sport's games!!!) ------------------ ========================= ICQ me!!! ========Specs======== o/s i use win 2k pro/server/adv server, currently got adv server in ASUS P3V4X VARIOUS O/C SETTINGS PIII 533 @ 640 133fsb PIII 533 @ 584 150fsb 384mb PC133 20gIBM 7200 rpm 40g MAxtor 7200rpm Sound Blaster LIVE!!! Platinum ATI All-In-Wonder 128 32mb 2x Agp 19'Samsung SyncMaster 950p Logitech Wireless keyboard/Mouse Creative 52x cdrom Richo CD-R/RW MP7040a 4/4/32 Epson Stylus colour 760 Cable modem and i networked with a MAC G3, now sharing printer/hardrives and internet. WOW, aren't i special now AND iT ALL WORKS GRRRREAT!!!' Share this post Link to post
Impact 0 Posted February 8, 2001 same here! bro PIII 450 WIN2k TNT 2, i updated to Detonator 3 and even tried the lastest beta driver 7.17 and stilll doenst work. it promted that program error when i tried to run. NEEED SOME HELP GUYS Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 8, 2001 Well, I could try it for you guys if you could email me the download site. I have simply no interest in NBA, but would like to help you guys out. ARC Share this post Link to post
Kevlar 0 Posted February 8, 2001 Yes, can you say SUCK IT EA!!!!!!! I can't believe that they still come out with games that don't work on Win2k. What a bunch of F*CKING MORONS. I'll bet the problems lies in the engine, in that they basically use the same engine and 99% of the code over and over again each year. And they're too F*CKING LAZY to make it work for win2k. THERES ABSOLUTELY NO F*CKING REASON why anything still have compatibility issues with win2k in 2001!!!! Ya...can you tell I'm pissed off? At least I didn't f8cking buy the damn thing. For anyone that actually pays money for this pos, and find out that it doesn't work on win2k, they deserve some sympathy. Share this post Link to post
JBrave715 0 Posted February 8, 2001 It's funny because NBA live 2000 works just fine. I would guess they are going to release a patch addressing this but it truely is a joke that it isn't compatible out of the box expecially with Windows XP on the horizon... The only games I have wanted but didn't buy because of compatibility problems were EASports games. They have lost my business many a time in the past year. Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 9, 2001 Well, I finally had a chance to look @ it. Well, it doesn't work with QfixApps. It detects the debugger and asks for closing it. I will try more and let you know. ARC Share this post Link to post
Mr.Guvernment 0 Posted February 9, 2001 thnx m8, see the anoy'n part is, is that fifa 2001 and madden 2001 both work fine for me under win 2k..so why not nba??? Share this post Link to post
DoubleT 0 Posted February 9, 2001 Has anyone used th autoupdate to see whether the new patch solves the win2k prob. Hope it does. "Another pleased win2k user" Share this post Link to post
JBrave715 0 Posted February 9, 2001 Madden didn't work fine for me until they released a patch specifically to fix a Windows 2000 issue that whenever minimize Madden it would stop reponding. For some reason it would minimize on it's own and ofcource stop responding. The point of this story is they supported windows 2000 by releasing that patch so I wasn't worried at all about Live being compatible. But hopefully they'll do the same for live. Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 14, 2001 Hi, I updated the game through live update and came up with some very interesting results... The game starts up fine. Shows the EA Sports Animation. Show the NBA Copyright Screen. Then exits back to the desktop. Tried QfixApps, but still same... Anbody else got it work? Feeback required... ARRC Share this post Link to post
Eeee 0 Posted February 16, 2001 We all know how much EA Sucks now, I have always loved their series of NBA games untill now that I am reduced to changing my OS to play it. I frown of EASPORTS. Share this post Link to post
Almghty 0 Posted February 16, 2001 Well i'm trying to work out whats happening during the update. I click the autoupdate. A box comes up.. verifying ..talking ..and then disappears. Is that it? or was there suppose to be like a progress bar that goes for 10 or mores secs. I get the feeling it didn't update. Share this post Link to post
oozle 0 Posted February 20, 2001 What's the progress with NBA2K1 and win2k? Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 21, 2001 Nothing much. Except, I am seeing 5 threads for the same game and the feeback is scattered around. It would be nice if you people could just make one thread for a single game and post everything in it. ARC Share this post Link to post
scattman 0 Posted February 23, 2001 Just get on Windows XP beta... It works great there! EA has been notified of the problem. Share this post Link to post
JBrave715 0 Posted February 23, 2001 So EA found a way to make it perfectly compatible with XP without being compatible on 2000? I also noticed in the games compatibility list that Triple play 2001 installs and runs fine on XP ofcource crashes upon start in 2000.... Why would they do that? Either that or Microsoft has really done a swell job in the compatibility department, making up for other companies ignorance. Share this post Link to post
scattman 0 Posted February 23, 2001 MS has done an excellent job in the compatibility department. Hopefully these fixes will find their way to windows update for Win2k, but if not Windows XP or a patch from EA will be your best bet (or possibly qfixapp if it is updated with the required fix). Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 24, 2001 Please, If you can, post the Compatibility Update. ACT.EXE. It is supposed to be in the XP beta CD. I do not think, it would be an illegal action, since Microsoft is going to post the updated ACT.EXE after a month or so. Thanks. ARC Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 27, 2001 That file ACT.exe is the Application Compatibility Tookit. You can make programs and games think that they are working on 95/98 and they will work on 2000. There is an updated ACT.EXE with the beta of XP. Please post it for download. ARC Share this post Link to post
scattman 0 Posted February 28, 2001 The fix for NBA Live 2001 was not available on WinXP beta 1. You'll have to wait for beta 2. Share this post Link to post
Almghty 0 Posted March 1, 2001 Let me just say the dream is over I dont they are bothering. Share this post Link to post
marcusb79 0 Posted March 2, 2001 I have finally gotten Live 2k1 to work properly on Windows XP Build 2428.. Thanks in part to this post on the nba-live forums page.. By kinkin (Kinkin) on Thursday, March 01, 2001 - 15:11: Edit i did more tests on it, and now is all good it works on my pc at least what i have done is i had nbalive 2k installed before i installed nbalive 2k1 just FYI installed paths are C:gamesEA SPORTSNBA Live 2000 C:gamesEA SPORTSNBA Live 2001 that might not matter, but do install them using the same cd-rom (so that with same drive letter) and enable auto-run on that cd-rom ok, put in your nba2k cd and it will auto run CLICK PLAY BUTTON on the auto-run menu then SOMEHOW, it will load NBA2k1 instead ! (at least for me) then it will load intro, and then pass the intro and load the menu, again, if you get dark graphics, you just have to lower the texture level, playing nba2k1 on win2k! (before you actually in the gameplay, you have to put your nba2k1 cd back! or it will freeze!!) the above steps should work if you fully installed the nba2k1 files from the cd-rom, so it won't search for the nba2k1 cd when loading the starting menu) other people might not need to do those to play it on win2k, but it seems this is ONE of the way that can load the game, under the most IMPOSSIBLE situation. **Provided**: using the above video driver settings etc. feel free to ask me if you don't know what i'm talking about, please confirm this method really works on all pc, too GOOD LUCK Initially his recommendations didn't work at all.. but I went to gamecopyworld and downloaded -fdxn2k1p.zip- replaced the exe file.. At that point once I launched I'd never get to the menu.. I'd never see the theme song at all. It would just crash back to the desktop. So i decided to run it in compatibility mode.. I selected Win98, launched it again and now it works great... My results do differ from KinKin, I don't need to launch from the 2000 CD. I'm now becoming doubtful that 2000 is really needed at all. But I have played full games and the Textures and everything else are fine if not better then WinME. I hope u guys will be able to get yours working as well.... ------------------------------------------ My Specs ATI Radeon 32 DDR Athlon 650MHZ 196 Megs of Ram Maxtor 15GB Hardrive Western Digital 4GB Hardrive HP 9100 CD-RW BDV DVD Rom Drive Internal Zip Drive External Jaz Drive Share this post Link to post