I posted this a while ago and have tried things since even contacting EA (who are useless). But I downloaded one of Nick's patches and now my game won't run anymore. Not sure if his patch caused it or not because I also installed ALone in the Dark 4 and the Open GL that was in it. I contacted EA and they asked for dxdiag information and told me that my system didn't meet min. requirements. Which it does because the game used to run. What I have done since is the following:
1. Uninstalled Fifa and reinstalled a few times while cleaning the registry also.
2. Reiunstalled original drivers for my monitor and anything to do with video from Compaq's quick restore.
2. Bought a geforce 2 card becasue EA said my problem was my video card and I wanted a new card anyway.
3. Ran 3D setup and reinstalled Fifa again after getting the geforce 2.
When I try and run the game it just crashes back to the desktop and change my screen to 640 x 480 and then I have to power off and restart because it wont let me do anything else. I saw another post saying something about soccer.ini in the root of the Fifa 2002 folder but I checked that too and even copied it from the CD to the folder. I also installed on a different machine and it worked so I know it's not the CD. I am guessing it was a patch or something I downloaded but I am out of ideas on where to look and EA is useless so if anyone here has any ideas it is greatly apprecaited. I don't want to reinstall Windows or wipe my machine and put it back to it's original state (too much information on the hard drive) both of which would probably fix the problem but there has to be another way to fix this. Thanks again.
Ezio
1. Uninstalled Fifa and reinstalled a few times while cleaning the registry also.
2. Reiunstalled original drivers for my monitor and anything to do with video from Compaq's quick restore.
2. Bought a geforce 2 card becasue EA said my problem was my video card and I wanted a new card anyway.
3. Ran 3D setup and reinstalled Fifa again after getting the geforce 2.
When I try and run the game it just crashes back to the desktop and change my screen to 640 x 480 and then I have to power off and restart because it wont let me do anything else. I saw another post saying something about soccer.ini in the root of the Fifa 2002 folder but I checked that too and even copied it from the CD to the folder. I also installed on a different machine and it worked so I know it's not the CD. I am guessing it was a patch or something I downloaded but I am out of ideas on where to look and EA is useless so if anyone here has any ideas it is greatly apprecaited. I don't want to reinstall Windows or wipe my machine and put it back to it's original state (too much information on the hard drive) both of which would probably fix the problem but there has to be another way to fix this. Thanks again.
Ezio
- just a crazy thought- can there be some leftover from a "no-cd" file somewhere ? I belive that I have cleared everthing both automaticily and manually.