Live 2000 Trauma

All of a sudden, Live 2000 stopped working on my pc (Operating System: ME. I know, I know, I need to upgrade. Yet I hear that 2000 and XP aren't exactly the most compatible of mates either).

I was experiencing in-game and mid-boot freezes and crashes, so I uninstalled the software; upon attempting to re-install, I received a message indicating that the hardrive is incapable of installing the appropriate drivers for gameplay. Apparently, the rest of the game's applications installed, however, as--upon clicking the desktop icon--the opening graphic appears, only for my attempted run to crash as the OS message indicates that I am missing "DDRAW.DLL" (then "DSound"--I think--.DLL).

Live 2000 has worked seamlessly on this very computer for three years . . . so I can't figure what alterd my driver capacities such that the EA software is inoperable. Anyone experience similar problems with 2000? Might anyone offer any insights in resolving this trouble? Thanks.

MT

Could it be your computer? Did you try doing a Windows Update, or using Disk Defragmenter?

I'm not familiar with those errors, maybe some others around here are...

Didn't you change your video card or sound card?

Didn't you change your video card or sound card?

Nope. No intentional changes to any of the installed hardware components.

I'm not familiar with those errors, maybe some others around here are...

This is my first time enountering .DLL error messages as well. What's up with this disk fragmenter software?

Thanks, guys. Peace.

MT

the DDRAW.dll file is related to DirectX. Did you updated it?

That's what I figured. Here's the whole story: after uninstalling NBA Live 2000, I attempted to install EA's MVP Baseball 2005 (which uses DirectX 8.0 or higher) , to see if that software would work on the cpu. Initially, the game would not fully install and seemed to cause an immense lag in booting for the entire operating system. Finally, I fully installed MVP Baseball, and received the same error message regarding the missing .DLL. I've since uninstalled the baseball game and attempted to reinstall Live 2000, only to receive the OS error/missing .DLL response once more.

But as I say, the sudden problems with Live 2000 (freezes and crashes) started before this uninstall/reinstall comedy . . .?!?!?! Thanks again, Alex.

MT

install directx10a. that's the latest i think.....and hope things will work out for you soon

If you have windows, disk deframenter is located if you follow: START MENU PROGRAMS ACCESSORIES SYSTEM TOOLS DISK DEFRAGMENTER.

It's basically to clean up a drive that you specify. I don't know if it will help, I'm not a computer guru, but it might be worth a shot on your C drive.

My defragmenter only allows me the option of addressing Drives A & C.

I did get the drivers downloaded--somehow--and NBA Live 2000 is re-installed. So I'm back to square one: these persistent, inexplicable freezes.

I'll work on the problem this weekend.

Thanks, fellas.

MT

okay...sounds like a memory prob or a hdd prob.....all indications

That's what I figure. I'm wondering if something's up with my CD-ROM as well. Peace.

MT

Just get Windows 98 and run Live 2000 from it- its a lot easier