Need for speed underground 2 odd crashing

[viperfan7]

just instaled NFSUG2 and its been crashing randomly ever sence, and for some reason the GPU memorie's MHz jumps from 600 to 1220 when I start the game in XP but not in vista, it manly crashes when I go from a menu to explore mode and from explore mode to a race or menu, but not the pause menu, the GPU runs at 75-78C with this game,this happens in vista and XP, I think its my be a heat problem, anyone know of any fixes?Nothing is overclocked when this happens and I've tried maxing out the fan speeds

GPU: nVidia 7950GT2 dual core GPU 1GB@600MHz memory and 500Mhz
nTune version : 5.05.25
CPU: intel dual core 2.66GHz 1066 FSB MHz
MoBo: nForce 570 SLi A2
Dell XPS 710

 

[Puppysnuff]

I had this problem myself and found that, after much digging, NFSU2 doesn't like multi-core processors. That is the bad news. The good news is that you can fix it two ways:

1) Safe process that is annoying, and you have to do it every time you start playing. As soon as you jump into the game, Ctrl-Alt-Del and go to the Task Manager. Right Click on SPEED2.EXE and select "Set Affinity" Make sure only 1 processor is checked. Go back to game. You will need to do this every time you start the game.

2) The more complex method that takes a little more time, but you only have to do it once. This method involves editing the EXE file, so I recommend making a copy first. Get yourself a copy of "imagecfg.exe" online. This is a microsoft tool that is found on NT systems that will edit a program to only see one CPU at a time. After you have the file, put it in the NFS folder in Program Files. Run CMD from the NFS folder and type, "imagecfg -a 0x1 SPEED2.EXE" After you have run this, NFS should be running off of the 1st CPU from then on, and you should have a much more stable game.

 

[viperfan7]

thank you, another game to add to the list of non dual core games