NfS 5 won't run under W2k--SOLVED!!!


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Posted by Todd Sauve on April 10, 19100 at 18:50:21:

Hi all,

ALRIGHT!!!

I was getting the error message:

You have DirectX 0. Please install DirectX 7. Could not load ".\drivers\registryz"
[Files=\real\patch3\pc\set3d.c, LINE=273]

But now I have got the demo working!

Eureka!!

What was the problem, you ask?

The darned colour depth! ARRGGGG!!!

I have my desktop set to 24bit colour and the game apparently only reacts to 16 or 32bit colour
depths. Once I dropped down to 16bit I could run the 3D set-up fine (Matrox G400 came up right away)
it started just like that.

Why oh why must these things be so arcane?

Now I'm concerned whether the full game will run properly. Anyone had problems going from the demo
to the full game on their W2000 set-up?
--
Todd


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