NFS:MW install

I just bought this game today, and went to install it on my M90, and everytime I try, it says that I need DirectX 9.0c. But I have that. To make sure, I went to Microsoft's website and downloaded the web installer, but it said I was up to date. I have other games and Demos on here including F.E.A.R. and COD2 demo, and they all work fine. But NFS:MW just won't install. Another funny thing is that when the license agreement window comes up, there's no text in the box. And it's after this step that the problem arises. Thinking this may be a problem with the game and not my computer (certainly what it sounds like) I decided to try to install it in Vista Beta 2 (dual-booting currently). Oddly enough, it will install. I don't get it. Could this be some problem with my Windows XP? That's the only thing I can figure right now. Also, I checked the DirectX folder in WINDOWS/system32 and opened a log file (what it appears to be), and all it has are several entries from today where DirectX has failed to load. This must be the problem, but I tried opening F.E.A.R. and COD2, and they both worked fine. I'm really at a loss here. Should I try a repair of XP? And if so, how does that work? I have my XP CD.

 

Well if you want to repair WindowXP, you can consider it as "reseting Windows" if you will. It just returns everything back to its default settings without the hassle of reinstalling everything that might include Direct X. What does the error say in the folder?

 

Well, seeing no other reason it should not work, I decided to just go ahead and repair XP. After ten tries of it not working (kept hanging up half-way through the installing devices step), I ended up having no other choice but to reinstall Windows. It's been a long night. I still can't get firefox on here cause the mozilla website is down. At least my running processes went from 60 to 38. That's nice. But it installed fine after the reformat. Only thing that really sucks is that the boot manager is now gone, so I can't choose to boot to Vista or XP at startup anymore, it just goes straight to XP. I'm gonna have to figure out how to fix that. This sucks. But at least the game's running now. The highest res. I can get is 1024x768 though, which isn't even widescreen. Is that normal?

 

Download the resolution hack to run the game at any resolution.
http://www.nfsunlimited.net/download/?type=Utils&id=106

 

Similar thing happen to me, to run the game just right click the game (not the shortcut) go to properties and run as Windows 2000, to confirm that its working u should see text in the license agreement.

 

Yeah, I got that from Widescreen Gaming forums' new site. Works flawlessly, but the IS 300 looks too tall for some reason. They're definitely not that disproportioned in real life.

 

notebook, did you actually use the DX installer that came with the game? I dont want to make a big post about how stupid each revision of DirectX has a unique .dll and that some games only look for that specific revision of .dll (even if the newer .dll's would work fine), but if you try and leap ahead of a game and install a newer version of directx, you may still end up missing the .dll the game is looking for.

 

The game does not include a version of DirectX. It was just saying that I didn't have the latest version and said go to microsoft.com for it. Not to be rude, but I'm not that stupid. I wouldn't have tried repairing XP and going through all that trouble if I could have just installed a version on the game disc. Not to mention, if there is a version on the disc, it usually tries to install itself automatically unless there is a newer version. Besides, as I said in the first post, it said it required 9.0c; there is no newer version I could have gone to to mess it up. I also said in the post that the log file in the Windows folder was reporting an error that it could not load DirectX. In any case, my problem is now solved.

 

Glad that it works for you. A couple of cars do look a bit off... other than the Lexus, the RX8, the Mercs and probably the Lotus also look a bit "disproportionate". Otherwise, a great game. I'm really lookin forward to NFS:Carbon.