I have Fifa 2001 which is a Asia-Pacific Edition with Paul Scholes on the cover. My video card is Nvidia Riva TNT. I am experiencing this problem. When I double-click the Fifa 2001 shortcut on my desktop, it shows a player by the name of Edgar Davids and just returns to the desktop. But sometimes, it shows the Edgar Davids picture and after it has returned to the desktop, it shows a white screen after a while and starts the game, but I find it too slow. I checked my video card, reinstalled DirectX, followed the trouble shooting tips giving by EA, but nothing seemed to work. Can you guys there help me? It would be well appreaciated if you could reply me as soon as possible. Thank You very much.

From the readme.txt:

Problems with NVidia-based video cards
NVidia-based video cards with older drivers may display a white screen when entering the game. If this occurs, we recommend downloading and installing the Detonator 3 (D3) reference drivers on www.nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com) to solve the problem.

For best look and performance, the following should be set via the NVidia RIVA 128 video card control panel:
Per pixel mipmapping: Disabled;
Automatically generate 8 mipmap levels;
Direct3D Texture Memory Size: 5-10 MB

On the TNT and TNT2 class cards if you are having trouble with unreadable or scrambled fonts, try changing the Addressing Mode switches in the TNT/TNT2 video card control panel to:
Non-Filtered Texel Origin: Upper left corner;
Filtered Texel Origin: x=0.00 texels, y=0.00 texels.
You may need to adjust these settings slightly, depending on your individual set-up.


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iceboy