Official NBA Live 2004 Patch Info

[Andrew]

In an effort to help EA develop an official patch for NBA Live 2004, we'll need to provide them with some information. In particular, if you've been experiencing the problem with the jerseys where "AAAAAAAAAAA" is displayed instead of the player's name, info about your system and what you were doing when you experienced the error would be very helpful to developing a fix.

The following information would be most appreciated:

• Your PC's Setup (DXDiag would be very useful)
• What you were doing before entering gameplay and noticing the error (ie did you go straight from loading the game to Play Now)
• If the error isn't evident from the time you start the game, does it occur after entering the pause menu?

If anyone who is experiencing this problem can provide some information, I'll pass it on to EA Sports. You may post the info here or email me at andrew@nba-live.com.

[highpressure]

Andrew I've had this problem for some time until yesterday. What I did was set my default "Detail Settings" to "Low". From there I checked in-game, and saw that the "AAAAAAA" had been replaced by player names.

Once I saw that the names had finally appeared on the player's jerseys, I then customized the "Display Settings", moving them up one at a time from LOW to MEDIUM..and so on, while checking in-game after each change in settings to make sure the error didn't return. I haven't seen the "AAAAAAA" error since doing this.

Before doing any of this I would just go right into "Play Now" and the error was always present. But adjusting my "Detail Settings" to "Low" first, and then going into the game has provided a temporary solution for me until a patch is made available.

Again, I've since adjusted my "Detail Settings" to where I want them, and the player's names are still on the back of the jerseys! I hope this info is helpful to some.

[Chris Baxter]

Sometimes the game crashes such as when I check MVP Candidates or Starting Lineups before a game and click the arrow button to go back and then the music skips and the game shuts down and returns me to the desktop. One other time whenever I tried to simulate games (my own or even just up to my next game) the same thing would happen. If they could fix this that would be great!

[bigleo]

this might be for the roster patches... but Shane Battier's Bio says he's from Birmingham AL, when he's actually from Birmingham MI - which isn't a big deal, but it's kind of annoying (I'm from Birmingham MI)

[bigleo]

some of the dialogue gets messed up every now and then... ie...Ben wallace gets a rebound and they say 'los angelas ball'

[ehlomint]

Fix the custom art issue and I'll be happy, and even maybe buy Live 2005

[D1anonly]

EA Sports has been working on a patch to fix the customart problem along with some others. Apparently this patch has been acquired from their server and passed along onto the net.

nbalive.org does not support warez/cracks and the like, but we will confirm this "leakage" (so to speak) of the patch. Do not request the patch on here, if you wish to get the patch either wait, search the internet or ask someone who has it OFF THE FORUM. Asking for it, or providing information on how to get it will be viewed as a violation of the warez/crack clause in the rules. However our jurisidiction does not expand beyond the limits of the forum.

So, again, to make sure. There is a patch, it has found it's way onto the internet before release. Do not ask for it or show how to get it on on here, but we won't do anything if you manage to get it and talk about it.

So my question is do the same rules apply here or are we free to swap this file. I don't have it but if somebody does I would like to have it.

[hwwztt]

Mr Andrew:

Could U Give me a favor?



Help me to ask The NBALIVE2004 Designer Why I can't See All Players???

[NBAJ2K]

This only happens on occasion but someone will get fouled shooting and it will say going to the line and either that team will get the ball back or the other team will get the ball. Its really annoying when someone is driving in, and it should be a 3 point play and theres a foul, the point counts and the other team gets the ball, or something like that.

Also on the inbounds pass you can imbound into the backcourt as far as I know, but if you do that in NBA Live its a violation!

If a player gets injured on a play and is going to the line, like a flagrant foul or something, with NBA rules if they cant go to the line and someone replaces them, they are not allowed back in the game.

Hope this helps... It all randomly happens but does happen!

~J

[Andrew]

So my question is do the same rules apply here or are we free to swap this file. I don't have it but if somebody does I would like to have it.

Yes, the same rules apply in this forum, too.

this might be for the roster patches... but Shane Battier's Bio says he's from Birmingham AL, when he's actually from Birmingham MI - which isn't a big deal, but it's kind of annoying (I'm from Birmingham MI)

Sorry, this is the wrong thread. This is a thread for collecting information about technical problems that will hopefully be solved by a patch.

Help me to ask The NBALIVE2004 Designer Why I can't See All Players???

That's a video card issue; it's been covered in the Technical Issues forum.

I appreciate all the feedback so far, but could you guys please provide some more information about your PC, and the things you were doing before you experienced the crashes? That kind of information will be useful to EA in the development of the patch.

[Nick]

I just would like to see the customart thing fixed most.

[Ole]

I just would like to see the customart thing fixed most.

[hwwztt]

That's a video card issue; it's been covered in the Technical Issues forum.

I appreciate all the feedback so far, but could you guys please provide some more information about your PC, and the things you were doing before you experienced the crashes? That kind of information will be useful to EA in the development of the patch.

Tkx andrew again...

And My PC's Video Card is TNT2 M64 (32MB VideoRam)...

other guys can use the same of My Video Card Run the Game, no any other errors....but the speed is very slow.

[yogabear]

when custom art is on
the game crashes when
1.)playing one on one
2.)practice
3.)when releasing and signing players
4.)when looking at the mvp candidates
5.)sometimes crashes after playing a 5 on 5 game

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[superman]

I wanna be able to add more teams than just 4 or 5 please fix that and make it possiable for a team like the allstars to wear there own teams jerseys not the generic east and west allstars like the way old lives used to be I hope you know what I mean!

[dcGrimes]

When you are playing offense and the opposing team hits the ball into the backcourt, if you go retrieve it a backourt violation is called. This should not happen if the defensive player was the last one to touch the ball before it goes into the backcourt.

[Lotto]

When playing EASPORTS ONLINE and using any offensive/defensive plays other than default, you usually get a sychronization error.

[Andrew]

Thanks for the reports guys, but EA really does need some more info about our systems and the nature of the errors and crashes. Obviously it's in everyone's best interest to report bugs and make sure as many issues are resolved as possible. But EA needs to be able to reproduce these bugs so that they can develop fixes.

Thanks.

[GermanDarkSide]

Okay, i hope you understand my bad english.

I'm Admin of a NBA Live Online league - we are playing via direct IP.

All my wishes are for the online mode:

1.) If you play online, there is no playbook avaible, so you can't make defensive matchups (double, high pressure, low pressure,...) and team strategy is not avaible, so you can't use "crash boards" , "box out",.... Why it's not avaible in online mode?

2.) If you play online, you can't see the "Fatigue" under your players in game.

3.) Then this fu**ing "Pause mode" at the end of online games sucks. At the end of online-games, you have to make many decisions. You have to go to "Pause mode" to bring your best 3 Point Shooter on court, change some things,... Now if you go to often to "Pause mode", the connection will be breaked, in German you can read the Message: "DU HAST DIE PAUSENFUNKTION MISSBRAUCHT, VERBINDUNG WIRD GETRENNT...". It means "You misuses the pause function - connection closed...". This is terrible!!!

Online you need to have a good connection, sometimes the conn struggles and it helped to go to "Pause screen" wait 2 seconds, and then go back to game an the connection will be better. Now the connection will closed, if you go to often to "Pause mode".

Pleaaaaaase fix that!!!! It's terrible for Online leagues!

4.) Why EA doesn't include all the sliders for online games? It's a very nice feature, but i only play online - never offline.

These are my wishes for the NBA Live 2004 patch!

Sorry for my bad english, but i tried!

[Mark Nordstrom]

If you get a charging call and the ball goes in the net the CPU still gets points. This happens alot. Or if you get a foul call when your shooting and you inbound instead of FTs that happens ALOT. OR you get a charging call on a shot it gives you the ball but calls you out of bounds giving the ball back to the other team.

[sleepz]

Will it fix the bug of player lock-on?
cpu-controlled teamates never shoot unless you press the shoot button and they never drive even in fastbreak. They just stand rooted or doing some bad passes..
please fix it, easports

[Bo]

Is there any way to fix player lock, I mean the human AI players don't do anything; they don't shoot, they hardly pass, they just stand around the whole time. They hardly ever make a basket even if you force them to shoot. A better player lock would be nice, but maybe unrealistic for a patch.
Charging call, when the perpetrater gets the bucket and the offensive foul.

[Bo]

Oops didn't see that last post, my fault. (this must be an important issue for people ).

[reapershole]

When the custom art did not work for me i contacted ea technical support about it. they said i did not have a graphics card they provided support for. what did i do? i went out and got a 256 meg nvidia card that was on their list. they still can't fix my custom art problem.

so, yes, i agree. i would like a fix for the custom art. i think i have certainly spent enough money to deserve it at this point.

(i also increased from 128 meg of ram to over a gig because the tech person told me i might be low on ram, just fyi. the problem is software and they need to fix their product accordingly)

[RandomSurge]

Obviously custom art...I mean, what the point of even having a community if we can't use this shit without ovewrtiting files...this is a joke

One more thing that I haven't seen reported.

The CPU seems to go to the inbound play too quickly. Sometimes you don't even see the ball being inbounded.

There are 2 big problems with this.

1. It's very hard to call a time out when you have less than a second to react

2. If there is a charge or you get foul, your player will get called for being out of bounds trying to inbound the ball...this is absolutely retarted and very annoying since I make it a case to take to the hole and get fouled on a consistent basis and I also take lots of charges