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NFS: Hot Pursuit Install Fail. Why??
Hey all.
Ok, so I'm back again and at the mercy of this forum. I really hope I can get some help with this one as I'm completely stuck and have been trying for over 2 hours now to try and solve it.
Basically, I am trying to install NFS: Hot Pursuit and when it gets to the installing DirectX screen it doesn’t progress any further. The disc will spin up and hit full speed and at this point you are expecting the progress bar to start filling up and the install to take place.
However, that is not the case here. What happens is that the disc will stay at full speed for like 5 mins and then will eventually spin down and rest for say 3 mins. Then, the procedure will start again. Oh, and as for the progress bar? Does tiddly squat. It just sits there and you see an empty space and nothing happens. The disc will happily spin for all eternity and will only stop when you have obviously ran out of patience (trust me I managed to make 2 brews and nip out to a mates for an hour and came back – still nothing) and manually stop the installation.
What makes me laugh and is a joke is that simply pressing our friend the little red X does nothing either. Oh no, it wants to sit there and annoy you by purposefully showing you that it is not installing your game. You have to use Task Manager to kill it and even then you have to encourage it with 25+ clicks. I always get past the Serial Number screen so it’s not like it’s having a problem authenticating my copy and it is definitely not a hardware fault.
What is annoying me is the fact that in XP (and I still have it on my slave drive by the way) this game both installed fine and plays well. I could go play it now if I wanted but that is just the point, I’d be in XP 32 bit and not Win 7. Before you ask as well whilst it’s fresh in my mind, I have the lasts drivers and that is for every piece of hardware that my system comprises including my GPU and I haven’t changed anything at all. I simply let it update to the max when I first installed it and have recently ran an update just to confirm what I already know, that I am up to date with everything.
My internet connection is fine too and I just can’t get my head around the fact that I’ve seen this very same screen (installing DirectX) on practically every game I’ve installed and it usually whizzes by no trouble. Not much strain on a PC is it to install a game. I mean come on, NFS?? J
Why then, is an O/S such as Windows 7 that is supposed to be far superior in every way to those that stood before it, be struggling to even install a game? I’m sorry that it sounds like I’m having a rant but please see it from my side. The whole reason I put Windows 7 on was to see an improvement in my systems performance and to also see an improvement in games. I wanted to see physically what 64 bit was like (never experienced it) and speed my system up.
This far I am not impressed. I have had it running for the third day now and I don’t remember having these sorts of problems with XP.
What’s going on?
Thanks all for reading.
Sparky 05084