F1 2000 - PC Assistance Please

[Kouen]

Hello All (That choose to read this),

I've got a case here that's got me a little stumpt that maybe someone here may have idea's or a solution too, I'll take ether or both!

Long Story short in my travels today I picked up F1 2000 for PC. Now I can already smell the troll lolers, but it was in its original big box all manuals mint condish and looks like it had only been played twice! the game also only set me back £3 so im not at much of a loss but I used to enjoy playing this on the PlayStation.

Basically when I Try to boot the game on my Desktop (Vista / 7 x64) it starts, you cannot see the intro video the car graphics in there textures are some see through some not. and crashes to desktop when the game goes to load the course.

I've tried the 1.09 Patch and the compatibility modes with no luck
(Desktop: Core 2 Quad 3.1ghz, 8Gb Ram, HD4870, X-Fi Xtreme Gamer)

So I turned to my laptop which has worked great on any game pre 2006 (the ones that normally don't work on my desktop due to windows Vista / 7 or x64 incompatibility's) that runs Windows XP Home.

The Intro Video does play and the car Graphics are correct and everything runs smooth but still crashes at the same spot.

(Laptop: Pentium M 2.0Ghz, 2Gb Ram, GMA900, ALC260)

While I am not expecting much in the way of reply's i am figuring its worth A shot to a shot to ask.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully you will have some Idea's or fixes up your sleeves!

 

[philjo]

Hey mate,

First thing that strikes me is that there is nothing very similar between your 2 systems, yet it yielded the same result.

Normally this would indicate that it's a problem inherent in the game, however nothing of interest shows up on the internet.

Need to test it on more systems to try and narrow down what might be causing the crash.

Just out of interest man, try running it on your desktop dual core rig, but use single affinity mode - run the game on one core. See what happens.

-philjo

 

[Kouen]

Hey mate,

First thing that strikes me is that there is nothing very similar between your 2 systems, yet it yielded the same result.

Normally this would indicate that it's a problem inherent in the game, however nothing of interest shows up on the internet.

Need to test it on more systems to try and narrow down what might be causing the crash.

Just out of interest man, try running it on your desktop dual core rig, but use single affinity mode - run the game on one core. See what happens.

-philjo

No luck forcing it to run on a single core or even using winlauncherxp to force that at app start.

Thanks for the idea though mate