Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com - View Single Post - NEED For SPEED Most Wanted: Crashes to Desktop: Please Help

Forrykook · January 2nd, 2008, 08:14 PM

G'day all. This thread makes for very interesting reading.

My NFSMW crashes to desktop sometimes but mostly it just stops with whatever was on the screen at the time. Sometimes it's during a race, sometimes while navigating menus such as saving, sometimes while adding parts etc to car in the workshop, sometimes during the beginning splash screens of the game. Sometimes I get to race for a while and complete some events, sometimes I get nowhere. When it stops, the picture simply freezes on screen and whatever sound was playing just continues, (ie the one particular note or engine sound just keeps holding). Sometimes the sound then stops but the picture is still frozen.

Also it seems to be getting more frequent as I progress through the game. I am now completing events for Blacklist number 6 and it is now crashing / stalling heaps.

Alt/F4 doesn't work, Ctrl/Alt/Del doesn't work. All I can do is press the restart button on front of PC tower. I have updated Nvidia driver, soundcard driver, Logitech G11 keyboard driver, Logitech G5 mouse driver. I've used RegCure and Advanced System Optimiser to clean and defrag the registry. I've tried disabling AVG antivirus, (but I make sure to turn off DSL modem). I've reinstalled the game.

System;
P4 3Ghz on ASUS P4S800 MX SE motherboard
Nvidia Geforce 6600 256MB, (soon to be replaced with 512MB Geforce 7600)
Creative Audigy 4 soundcard
Logitech peripherals mentioned above
80Gig HDD with plenty of space
1 Gig Ram

It plays other games sweet, although I have had some issues with Medal Of Honour Pacific Assault also. Other stuff my system plays nicely with no probs;
FEAR
FEAR Extraction Point
FEAR Perseus Mandate
DOOM3
Doom3 Resurrection of evil
Quake 4
Prey
Painkiller
Bioshock

Hmmm, now I notice that MOHPA is also an EA game. Perhaps EA is just crap. Perhaps no one has a magical answer for me but I thought I'd share my problems with you also.

Cheers
Forrykook

I've also patched the game to 1.3.
Also tried to set desktop resolution to 800x600 before starting game.
I just went to uninstall the game again and found that it was not in the Add/Remove programs dialogue box. So I reinstalled it and tried to play...it crashed. I then uninstalled and reinstalled. It crashed. it won't even load up now, it hangs when my profile is loading.

January 2nd, 2008, 08:14 PM	#49 (permalink)
Forrykook Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2	Crash to desktop and stalls at random times G'day all. This thread makes for very interesting reading. My NFSMW crashes to desktop sometimes but mostly it just stops with whatever was on the screen at the time. Sometimes it's during a race, sometimes while navigating menus such as saving, sometimes while adding parts etc to car in the workshop, sometimes during the beginning splash screens of the game. Sometimes I get to race for a while and complete some events, sometimes I get nowhere. When it stops, the picture simply freezes on screen and whatever sound was playing just continues, (ie the one particular note or engine sound just keeps holding). Sometimes the sound then stops but the picture is still frozen. Also it seems to be getting more frequent as I progress through the game. I am now completing events for Blacklist number 6 and it is now crashing / stalling heaps. Alt/F4 doesn't work, Ctrl/Alt/Del doesn't work. All I can do is press the restart button on front of PC tower. I have updated Nvidia driver, soundcard driver, Logitech G11 keyboard driver, Logitech G5 mouse driver. I've used RegCure and Advanced System Optimiser to clean and defrag the registry. I've tried disabling AVG antivirus, (but I make sure to turn off DSL modem). I've reinstalled the game. System; P4 3Ghz on ASUS P4S800 MX SE motherboard Nvidia Geforce 6600 256MB, (soon to be replaced with 512MB Geforce 7600) Creative Audigy 4 soundcard Logitech peripherals mentioned above 80Gig HDD with plenty of space 1 Gig Ram It plays other games sweet, although I have had some issues with Medal Of Honour Pacific Assault also. Other stuff my system plays nicely with no probs; FEAR FEAR Extraction Point FEAR Perseus Mandate DOOM3 Doom3 Resurrection of evil Quake 4 Prey Painkiller Bioshock Hmmm, now I notice that MOHPA is also an EA game. Perhaps EA is just crap. Perhaps no one has a magical answer for me but I thought I'd share my problems with you also. Cheers Forrykook I've also patched the game to 1.3. Also tried to set desktop resolution to 800x600 before starting game. I just went to uninstall the game again and found that it was not in the Add/Remove programs dialogue box. So I reinstalled it and tried to play...it crashed. I then uninstalled and reinstalled. It crashed. it won't even load up now, it hangs when my profile is loading. Last edited by Forrykook : January 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 PM.