NFS:HP PC Crashing issue on my ASUS G73JH-RBBX05

So I bought Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and downloaded via EA Download Manager and ever since the release I have never been able to play the game because it always stops responding as soon as the game launches and shows a black screen for about 1 second. This still happens after the 2nd patch of the game.

This is the only game that is giving me a problem on my laptop. I have tried using prifinity to run on one core which supposedly a fix for quad-cores but that didn't work for me.

Is there anyone out there that could help me out??

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ASUS G73JH-RBBX05(Best buy version)
6GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 HD (with latest driver 11.1)
Intel i7 720M @1.60 with turboboost

 

Did you ever update your BIOS and vBios?

 

Yeah sure they are currently updated

 

It could be a Need for Speed Hot Pursuit compatibility problem with Windows 7 64bit, but I'm not really sure.

 

I've tried running it in windows xp sp3 compatability mode

 

Have you tried looking for the latest patch for windows 7 for your game?

 

It's not a Windows 7 64-bit problem. I have played and beaten NFS Hot Pursuit with this operating system. With the G73, it comes down to a combination of vBios version and driver. Try running using the default driver from the Asus support page.

 

No problems here on G73JH with 11.1a (also 10.12). Mostly over 50fps without AA enabled in CCC.

 

Seems to work fine for me, I've done it on a variety of drivers ...

 

Do You have this game? And yes I have the latest patch for this game.

 

Yes. But i didnt get it from the EA download manager. Maybe try reinstalling?

 

What do u mean without AA enabled in CCC, I want to be clearly sure.

I have tried reinstalling couple of times too.

 

It means Aa is only enabled or controlled by the application using it. Like in games.

Ohh. This has nothing to do with it but sometimes, I find it to work. Have you tried running it on administrators mode?

 

Yeah sure I tried that a couple of times

 

have you tried using a different fixed exe also new update helps

 

Don't tell me did game works fine for you too


Fixed exe never heard of one for NFS: HP

 

I have this game. I bought mine through Steam. I have the 211 bios, v93(Chastity Overdrive fix) vBios. Using drivers 10.10 - 11.1 works perfectly. I using the Windows 7 x64 Home Premium that came with the laptop. Never once has this game crashed on me.

Some things that will possibly crash your game is the Antivirus. Try turning it off and see how it runs. Also monitoring programs like MSI AfterBurner, Fraps, Xfire, etc. can cause stability issues as well. Turn those off as well.

 

I got mine off EA download manager and it seems to be working very well for me. I had problems with games crashing like that before. I would recommend that you uninstall the ati graphics drivers and reboot. Then go into control panel and uninstall the graphics drivers and reboot till you see "standard vga *something*" then reinstall the latest ati drivers.

 

Is that what solved your problem because I think /i have tried that before. But I'll try again.

 

where did you get the game from? ea, steam or "other" source?

 

EA Download Manager

 

Can my problem ever be fixed?

 

Exactly what version of the vBios are you running? Not trying to be insulting...just want to make sure you're understanding this is different from the regular system bios. If you're running bios 211 and the updated vBios from either Gary or Chastity, then you shouldn't have a problem running this game. Also, have you tried the default video driver provided on the Asus support site? Many who haven't updated the vBios have been able to use default video drivers to get past game problems.

 

Probably. Do a clean install of windows.

 

It worked for games that has crashed on me in the past. What I believe happen is that some ATI drivers uses some of the older files for the driver and it messes up the game. When you uninstall, you need to make sure that your device manager says standard VGA adapter. If you keep seeing 5870, you will need to keep uninstalling and rebooting till you do not see it.

 

I am using Gary's and my bios is 211

I am going to try this before clean installation of windows am currently backing up atm. Also when you say games do you mean this had been happen to all ur games because NFS: HP is the only game on my laptop that is working at all out of about 20 games.

Would it be able to uninstall the 5870 driver after first uninstallation when the resolution would be crappy(like 800x600). Just wondering

 

bump bump bump

 

You can, but you have to reboot every time and let it install drivers. This happened to me on Need for Speed and DC Universe. Need for Speed would load blinks and goes back to desktop. DC Universe, I could not see any npcs on screen or they would be floating everywhere.

I uninstalled Catalyst and rebooted. Then went to device manager and unistalled from there and rebooted. I ended up doing it about 5-6 times. It went all the way back to september drivers before everything cleared out.

 

So I am currently on the VGA Driver I used CCleaner to fix registry problems and am wondering which driver should I install.(The latest one 11.1 or the one on the asus website)

 

Since your vBIOS is updated, I would go with the latest from the AMD site (11.1). And make sure you install the suite which includes the driver, not just CCC

 

This sounds like the Creative crash problem for me. Have you tried to install the newest RealTek drivers 2.56 that fix this problem (from version 2.52 forward in fact)?

Remember that you have to run the installation executable two times, the first run it only removes the old version, second run installs 2.56.

 

Yes I already did this when I got tired of lock ups

 

So I still have the stopped working problem after all this trouble .

I uninstalled everything that had to do with the driver and windows installed the VGA driver then I installed 11.1 driver.

 

Try disabling your webcamera. I just remembered that I had problems when NFS Hot Pursuit searches for a webcamera. I disabled mine because I had problems with that on other programs.

I don't know if you checked this webpage out, but here are some fixes that others have tried:
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit fixes

 

Problem still exists

 

How about this, Try reinstalling windows. Its a lot of work, But i think that would be the only way. Maybe a background application is causing this.

 

Currently using AI Recovery Restore to overwrite hard drive to the way it was when I first got my laptop is that equivalent to reinstalling windows?

 

Yes? Or you can do a clean install. http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/468027-complete-walk-through-doing-clean-windows-7-install.html And http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/545075-chastitys-g73-series-driver-application-reference.html

 

Guyz thank you for all your help reinstalling windows solved the problem haven't played the game yet gonna install the patch first.

 

Happy to hear its working - NFS:HP plays amazingly on these laptops, and hopefully it will work out well for you. Sucks that it took a reinstall for it to work though..

 

Yes! Atleast something worked. Enjoy playing nfs:hp dude.

 

Guyz would it be a bad idea to use the latest graphics driver (i.e. 11.1) or I should just leave it with the default drivers?

 

If you are not experiencing any problems right now, Don't rush into updating the graphics driver.

 

roger that

 

How's you're nfs:hp? Do you still encounter the same problem?

 

Nope not at all (But I kinda hate the graphical details)

 

1) You don't need to do the 5-6 uninstalls... Just uninstall ONCE, and then reboot to Safe Mode. Run Driver Sweeper 2.85, then the ATI Crap Cleaner. Reboot. You will now have the default VGA drivers installed, and can proceed to installing the very nice Jan 26 11.01a Hotfix package.

2) Why are people skiddish about updating?

All this stuff is on my Driver Reference