Problem with running game on PC

Well, I just got the game.

I was able to browse through all the menus.
But when I actually want to play a game, then it loads it up and then the game exits all of a sudden - and i'm back at the desktop.

I know ppl had problems like this with previous versions of live. Can anyone give me any tips on how to solve this problem?

Normally this is an issue with either your sound or video card drivers. Be sure that you have the most up to date drivers installed and that you have at least DirectX 9.0b

Alright thanks. I'll try what you said.

I tried everything you said but it didn't work.

I am able to use the practice mode and the slam dunk school mode. But everything else does not work. It goes into the loading screen and once it finishes loading, the game crashes.

please post your specs. i got the game yesterday and am running it with no problems at all. i'll see if i can help.

hello. man, try selecting Enviroment details to medium. i had the same problem as you're having it right now but i discovered that the game crashes everytime enviroment detalis are up to high or maximum level. altough i have no clue why is that the way it is but it works for me..hope it helps

hello. man, try selecting Enviroment details to medium. i had the same problem as you're having it right now but i discovered that the game crashes everytime enviroment detalis are up to high or maximum level. altough i have no clue why is that the way it is but it works for me..hope it helps

that helped ... and now it actually starts the introductions ... but when its time for the starting lineups, it crashes again. So i'm assuming this is a problem with the detail settings.

please post your specs. i got the game yesterday and am running it with no problems at all. i'll see if i can help.

I'm running this game on my laptop.

It's a Toshiba Satellite S205
Pentium 4
2.4 GHz
60 GB HD
512 MB memory
nVidia Geforce Go 420 32MB Video Card
Running Windows XP Home Edition

Well, I just got the game.

I was able to browse through all the menus.
But when I actually want to play a game, then it loads it up and then the game exits all of a sudden - and i'm back at the desktop.

I know ppl had problems like this with previous versions of live. Can anyone give me any tips on how to solve this problem?

sorry i forgot to include the quote - i actually meant for PROPULSIONDJ to post his specs to try and help him out, but it's cool to find out what other configurations other people are running live 05 on.

please post your specs. i got the game yesterday and am running it with no problems at all. i'll see if i can help.

I'm running this game on my laptop.

It's a Toshiba Satellite S205
Pentium 4
2.4 GHz
60 GB HD
512 MB memory
nVidia Geforce Go 420 32MB Video Card
Running Windows XP Home Edition

oops - sorry about that - my bad

it may actually be your video card, at some level; i'm guessing that games nowadays require closer to 64, 128 for things to run smoother. everything else doesn't look like it could cause the problems your having, unless you have a bug/virus/worm or need to format your system. i usually do format when the new nba live comes out to avoid any kinds of problems. you can also check ea's tech support site (can't remember it right now, but it's at easports.com) to see if they have anything on it or write to them. i know it's still new, but there are some topics there and i've written to them before and they are usually pretty good at getting back to you. hope this helps.

please post your specs. i got the game yesterday and am running it with no problems at all. i'll see if i can help.

I'm running this game on my laptop.

It's a Toshiba Satellite S205
Pentium 4
2.4 GHz
60 GB HD
512 MB memory
nVidia Geforce Go 420 32MB Video Card
Running Windows XP Home Edition

oops - sorry about that - my bad

it may actually be your video card, at some level; i'm guessing that games nowadays require closer to 64, 128 for things to run smoother. everything else doesn't look like it could cause the problems your having, unless you have a bug/virus/worm or need to format your system. i usually do format when the new nba live comes out to avoid any kinds of problems. you can also check ea's tech support site (can't remember it right now, but it's at easports.com) to see if they have anything on it or write to them. i know it's still new, but there are some topics there and i've written to them before and they are usually pretty good at getting back to you. hope this helps.

Live 04 ran great on my laptop ... so i thought I shouldnt have problems with 05. But you're right, I probably need to try reformatting my comp. If that doesn't work, I'll contact EA. Thanks for your help.

Alright here's the problem:

The practice mode works, the slam dunk mode works, all the showdown stuff work too.

When the game starts, I am able to see the introductions and the players warming up. But, when it's about time to go to tip-off, that's when it crashes.
There is something conflicting with my system there. I don't think it has anything to do with my video card.

Anybody has any ideas as to what I can do to fix this problem.

It would suck that I had to buy this game and it doesn't work.

It would suck that I had to buy this game and it doesn't work.

I dont know
BUT KEEP THAT RECEIPT!

hi there i am having the same problem as well. I am also running live 05 on the same laptop. Have you found out anyhting new please help as iam also very pissed off

Live 2004 has that "EAsy Info" tool by EA that tests your system and shows you what might prevent you from running their game. If that's still there for 2005 you should try running this to make sure you pass all compatibility tests.

I would also definitely suggest updating all drivers - most importantly gfx card, but also chipset, soundcard etc. And make sure you have DirectX9.0c installed!

Alright here's the problem:

The practice mode works, the slam dunk mode works, all the showdown stuff work too.

When the game starts, I am able to see the introductions and the players warming up. But, when it's about time to go to tip-off, that's when it crashes.
There is something conflicting with my system there. I don't think it has anything to do with my video card.

Anybody has any ideas as to what I can do to fix this problem.

It would suck that I had to buy this game and it doesn't work.

I'm not too familiar with the nvidia line of video cards, but is your card directx 9.0b compatible? easports has it as a requirement has for the pc.


This is from the Easports tech website for NBA Live 2005 for the PC. Click "support" in the top right hand corner of this page (http://www.easports.com/games/nbalive2005/home.jsp) and then click tech support.

What are the System Requirements?


Answer
The following are the minimum system requirements:

OPERATING SYSTEM
- Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
(Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported)
CPU
- 700 MHz Intel Pentium III or higher
MEMORY
- 128 MB RAM (256 MB of RAM for Windows 2k/XP)
HARD DRIVE SPACE
- 1800 MB free hard drive space
(additional space required for DirectX 9.0b installation, Internet
Explorer 6.0 SP1 installation and Windows swap-file)
GRAPHICS
- 32 MB DirectX 9.0b Compatible Video card
CD-ROM
- 16x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive using 32-bit CD-ROM driver
AUDIO
- Sound card with DirectSound support and DirectX 9.0b compatible driver
INTERNET
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
DIRECTX
- DirectX 9.0b
INPUT DEVICES
- Keyboard
- Mouse
Supported Chipsets:

ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9100
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9500
ATI Radeon 9600
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
ATI All-In-Wonder 9700
NVIDIA GeForce 2/MX/GTS/Ultra
NVIDIA GeForce 3/Ti
NVIDIA GeForce 4/MX/Ti
NVIDIA GeForce FX series
Intel i865g Onboard
NVIDIA nForce Onboard
NVIDIA nForce2 Onboard
Radeon 9100 Onboard
During testing, some video cards using the Geforce2 MX, and Geforce4 MX
series chipsets had problems running the game with driver versions lower
then 61.76. It is highly recommended to use the newest drivers from NVidia
with these chipsets.


You can find these drivers at http://www.nvidia.com.

Another thing is to check if there are any yellow exclamation marks in control panel, system, device manager. If so, a new or updated driver may be needed.

Let me know how that works.

Alright here's the problem:

The practice mode works, the slam dunk mode works, all the showdown stuff work too.

When the game starts, I am able to see the introductions and the players warming up. But, when it's about time to go to tip-off, that's when it crashes.
There is something conflicting with my system there. I don't think it has anything to do with my video card.

Anybody has any ideas as to what I can do to fix this problem.

It would suck that I had to buy this game and it doesn't work.

I'm not too familiar with the nvidia line of video cards, but is your card directx 9.0b compatible? easports has it as a requirement has for the pc.


This is from the Easports tech website for NBA Live 2005 for the PC. Click "support" in the top right hand corner of this page (http://www.easports.com/games/nbalive2005/home.jsp) and then click tech support.

What are the System Requirements?


Answer
The following are the minimum system requirements:

OPERATING SYSTEM
- Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
(Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported)
CPU
- 700 MHz Intel Pentium III or higher
MEMORY
- 128 MB RAM (256 MB of RAM for Windows 2k/XP)
HARD DRIVE SPACE
- 1800 MB free hard drive space
(additional space required for DirectX 9.0b installation, Internet
Explorer 6.0 SP1 installation and Windows swap-file)
GRAPHICS
- 32 MB DirectX 9.0b Compatible Video card
CD-ROM
- 16x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive using 32-bit CD-ROM driver
AUDIO
- Sound card with DirectSound support and DirectX 9.0b compatible driver
INTERNET
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
DIRECTX
- DirectX 9.0b
INPUT DEVICES
- Keyboard
- Mouse
Supported Chipsets:

ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9100
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9500
ATI Radeon 9600
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
ATI All-In-Wonder 9700
NVIDIA GeForce 2/MX/GTS/Ultra
NVIDIA GeForce 3/Ti
NVIDIA GeForce 4/MX/Ti
NVIDIA GeForce FX series
Intel i865g Onboard
NVIDIA nForce Onboard
NVIDIA nForce2 Onboard
Radeon 9100 Onboard
During testing, some video cards using the Geforce2 MX, and Geforce4 MX
series chipsets had problems running the game with driver versions lower
then 61.76. It is highly recommended to use the newest drivers from NVidia
with these chipsets.


You can find these drivers at http://www.nvidia.com.

Another thing is to check if there are any yellow exclamation marks in control panel, system, device manager. If so, a new or updated driver may be needed.

Let me know how that works.

Thanks a lot for your help man. That was exactly it. I learned that nVidia does not make updates for laptops. So I found a website and the webmaster there makes his own drivers for almost all the video cards.

The version I had was less than 61.76. So I installed the new drivers from that site and the game works to perfection.

If anybody else has a laptop and is having the same problems that I was having, please PM me.

By the way, the website was http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

Thanks a lot for your help man. That was exactly it. I learned that nVidia does not make updates for laptops. So I found a website and the webmaster there makes his own drivers for almost all the video cards.

The version I had was less than 61.76. So I installed the new drivers from that site and the game works to perfection.

If anybody else has a laptop and is having the same problems that I was having, please PM me.

By the way, the website was http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

No prob - glad to know you got it up and running. I'm surprised to see that nvidia doesn't make updates for their laptop vid cards, which kinda sucks, but at least you found someone that makes updates. happy nba live 05-ing....

Thanks a lot for your help man. That was exactly it. I learned that nVidia does not make updates for laptops. So I found a website and the webmaster there makes his own drivers for almost all the video cards.

The version I had was less than 61.76. So I installed the new drivers from that site and the game works to perfection.

If anybody else has a laptop and is having the same problems that I was having, please PM me.

By the way, the website was http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

No prob - glad to know you got it up and running. I'm surprised to see that nvidia doesn't make updates for their laptop vid cards, which kinda sucks, but at least you found someone that makes updates. happy nba live 05-ing....

Yeah man ... I wasn't just gonna give up on this after waiting a year for it lol. Thanks a LOT for your help.