man, I owe you big time. I had already given up and deinstalled, just when
this popped up and saved me from trashing this game title.
Just fyg what the game's publisher wrote about this issue:
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting us here at Electronic Arts Technical Support. I'm
sorry to know that you are having issues with the game, I say this because
this is one of our favorites here. Unfortunately the game surrenty does not
support Windows Vista. We cannot guarantee the games performance and
stability on this operating system. For your reference here is the list of
system requirements of the game.
Minimum System Requirements for “Need For Speed: Carbon”:
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 (32Bit Edition only), Windows 2000
Professional Service Pack 4 operating system
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent) CPU running at 1.7GHz or higher
Memory: 512MB RAM
Video Card: 64MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (NVIDIA Geforce4 Ti/ATI
Radeon 8500 or higher) using a
supported chipset (see below)
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Hard Drive: 5.3 GB of HD space
DVD ROM: 8X or faster DVD Drive
Supported Video Cards:
Although Direct3D is supported, this support is only officially extended to
certain 3D accelerator devices. The following major D3D chipsets are
supported.
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti-4200
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti-4400
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti-4600
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti-4800
NVIDIA GeForce FX Series
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
NVIDIA GeForce 6600
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
NVIDIA GeForce 7300
NVIDIA GeForce 7600
NVIDIA GeForce 7800
NVIDIA GeForce 7900
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9100
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9500
ATI Radeon 9550
ATI Radeon 9600
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon X300
ATI Radeon X550
ATI Radeon X600
ATI Radeon X700
ATI Radeon X800
ATI Radeon X850
ATI Radeon X1300
ATI Radeon X1600
ATI Radeon X1800
ATI Radeon X1900
***NOTE: Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not officially
supported. NVIDIA GeForce MX series not supported.
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Cheers
"ViPeRaY" wrote:
> when i use compatibility mode for windows 98 or me its working 
just funny
> "ViPeRaY" <viperaytwo@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4519755E-ADEB-43B7-9109-6A9164C3D878@microsoft.com...
> > Hi. i install Need For Speed Carbon on 5744. i run it then see ea logo
> > after that i get a error which is "NFSC.exe has stop working". I have ati
> > x700 and latest catalyts drivers for rc2. so can anybody play this game on
> > rc2??
>