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Got some troubles.. please help me!

Posted: 19 Jan 2004, 23:14
by ChieL87
Hiya.. I've been playing NFS for a while..
I had some Windows torubles so I reinstalled windows and NFSunderground.. Now Ive got 2 weird problems..

1. My savegames are still in the place the should be, but the game doesnt seem to link to them, so ill have to start underground from the beginning again :(

2. My loading screens etc are all low-res somehow :S

I hope someone can give me some advice,

thanks, Chiel

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 01:30
by Gussy
what OS are u running?

get the latest drivers for ur system, gfx-card etc...might've disappeard when reinstalling...

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 11:28
by ChieL87
XP Pro.. and I've got the same drivers installed as before.
I can race etc at normal ress, but my loading screens and all that are low-ress and I cannot load my savegames :(

cheers, ChieL

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 11:33
by Bojan
By low-ress you mean 800x600?
The menu is locked to that resolution.

It is possible the game overwrote your profiles file when you launched it the first time after reinstalling.
You should have copied all the contents of the savegame folder somewhere else, then install the game and run it (create a profile), then exit the game and copy the savegames back (and overwrite everything).

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 11:49
by ChieL87
I know the menu is on 800x600, but the text on the loading screens is almost not readable.. It was better before..

and about the savegames..

I made a new profile.. And I was thinking of the savegame editer.. but it doesnt appear in the folderwere the older savegames are, and I cant find them anyware :x

cheers, ChieL

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 11:52
by Bojan
IS your windows explorer by any chance hiding system and hidden files?

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 12:00
by ChieL87
It is.. But I can find the hidden folders with 'search'

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 20:42
by viper_gts
did you accidentally delete the Profiles.usr file when you uninstalled it the first time?.........the file is need to recognise save games.

Posted: 20 Jan 2004, 23:59
by ChieL87
Got the porblem fixed.. i just removed all and made a new porfile.. Used the save-game editer to go to my original underground thingy

but now I still have the queer low-ress thing :(

have a look at tje PIAA logo and the bottom font

Cheers, ChieL

Posted: 21 Jan 2004, 01:27
by Gussy
what kinda graphicscard have u got?

u didn't cheat, did u? ;)

Posted: 21 Jan 2004, 02:04
by UrQuattro
lame, look how much money u got...

Posted: 21 Jan 2004, 12:51
by ChieL87
I have a fx5200 now, but that is not the problem. It wasn't like that before..
and Ill get my Asus Radeon 9600XT this week 8)

and cheating?? what is that? :D

Posted: 24 Jan 2004, 10:18
by marshallpre1
howd u get that much money is my question

Posted: 24 Jan 2004, 10:20
by UrQuattro
and why! I always had enough to buy all the parts w/o cheating... some people! :)

Posted: 02 Feb 2004, 18:27
by ChieL87
I was at race 103/111 then my pc crashed, I had to reinstall windows and my savegames were lost, thats why I used the savegame editor

:P

Posted: 06 Mar 2004, 19:10
by Bauke777
Just for the search results, couldn't find a tested example, so here it is: if your windows crashes and your saved games are still in the \All Users\Application Data\NFS Underground directory:

1. start NFSU
2. create profile names with the same length of the profile you want to restore. Eg: you want to restore the user SERAPH, type HPARES (mirror)
3. close NFSU
4. open the Profiles.usr. Make sure you open it in a proper text editor (used UltraEdit myself).
5. just type your old userprofile over the new name: eg HPARES -> SERAPH.
6. save Profiles.usr
7. Game on!!!!! 8)

Length of the usernames did the trick. Tried it with different lengths but game didn't accept it. You can see for yourself in UltraEdit... Anyways: game even crashes! Keeping the lengths of the usernames works fine for me :!:

Posted: 07 Mar 2004, 03:37
by GT3x24x7
Now that's ^^^ the way to help a guy out!! Good job Bauke! :D

(And nice to see another UE user out there too... :wink: )

Posted: 07 Mar 2004, 15:06
by TheStig
weird why everybody emidiatly starting to shout CHEATER...

he told us why he did use it so... READ

and Bauke777 thats HELP