brand new to modding nba live 08 & need some help please

[regularcat]

i installed nba live 08, & imported a couple of files i downloaded from here & im just constantly crashing. (vista ultimate 32 bit)

mods installed

NBA Championship Trophy update for NBA Live 08 - Andreas Dahl (sgsm folder)
OKC COURT BY BRYAN055 (sgsm folder)
Spalding Original Game Ball for NBA Live 08 by PDub (sgsm folder)
Nba live 08 Lighting Update 2 w/o extra stuff folder files (sgsm folder)
NBA Live 08 Current Rosters 3.2 (ran the exe)

the first thing i did was load the rosters, then i tried to play practice mode, 1 dribble & then crash.
reopened the game, tried play now atl (away) vs okc (home), won the jump ball to bibby 2 dribbles then crash.

whats am i doing wrong ? why am i crashing ?

thanks in advance.

[Andrew]

Welcome to the Forum.

Are you getting an error message when the game crashes?

[regularcat]

Welcome to the Forum.

Are you getting an error message when the game crashes?

thank you & yes, nbalive08.exe has stopped working.

is pretty annoying too.

[regularcat]

i guess nobody knows why, or even has the slightest idea, strange.

well thanks andrew, but apparently i have picked the wrong forum to ask for help.

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[Bassman58]

You must have a little patience, young grasshopper. In the future install mods one at a time. That way you can determine the cause of any problem. Since you have just started it may be easier to uninstall and delete the any leftover files. Then install NBA Live 08. Add one mod at a time. Run the game. Verify the mod is OK.

Otherwise you have to undo what you added. The OKC court would effect games using this court only. You can delete (or move to a temp folder) the seat*.* files (OKC team was in Seattle in 2008). The Spaulding mod can be undone by removing the ball*.fsh files. If you load the default or a different roster that would rule out Andrew's roster. But Andrew has a bunch of files for courts, players, etc. included so I can't tell you what files to remove. I don't know the files in the other mods either. You can extract the files in to a temp folder so you can see what files were added or changed. I always extract to a temp folder so I know what has changed. I also back up folders such as AI, LOC, DATABASE and TUNING if you use any gameplay/AI/roster mods. I backed up my original SGSM folder since it was small. Now it's over 1GB with 7200 files.

[Ka-ching]

Yes, you must have patience. I wasn't on until just now....If I were in your situation I would just uninstall Nba Live 08(make sure the un-install leaves no left over files)....then just re-install Nba Live 08...after that, install Andrew's Latest Roster, open Nba Live and see if everything works...then install the other patches one at a time and each time check to see if Nba Live works....this is to see which patch is the problem....once you have the scource of the problem just do not install that patch or delete that patch. PM me if you have any more trouble....or you can't understand what I just wrote ....All in all just find the scource of the problem(which patch)...then do not install the problematic patch

[Andrew]

i guess nobody knows why, or even has the slightest idea, strange.

well thanks andrew, but apparently i have picked the wrong forum to ask for help.

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You have to understand, not everyone is on at the same time, not everyone has the same knowledge (especially when it comes to patching and troubleshooting), and not everyone is talking about NBA Live 08 anymore. I'm afraid you'll have to be more patient than that, I understand you're frustrated but calling us out like that isn't going to make anyone more inclined to help you out.

I would agree with the advice previously posted, starting over and trying out one patch at a time will help pinpoint the cause of the problem, at which point we should hopefully be able to suggest a viable solution.

Before you do that though...offhand, I can't think of too many conflicts between the patches you listed which would cause a crash with the error you're getting. Looking at your aiact.viv file (by default, that's in C:\Program Files\EA Sports\NBA Live 08\ai\act), does it have a date later than July 25th, 2007? If so, it's a custom aiact.viv file and may not be 100% compatible with the NLSC rosters, which was designed using the default aiact.viv file. That could definitely be causing crashes like the one you're getting, the solution being to restore the default aiact.viv file from the NBA Live 08 disc.