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Need for Speed Carbon Crash to Desktop Issue

I thought by upgrading my windows xp version into service pack 2 (already updated) from service pack 1, using latest Nvidia Driver, etc, it’ll resolve the crash to desktop issue which randomly appear .. but it seems i was wrong .. because i still experiencing random crash to desktop issue when playing this game (when buying parts, selecting car, etc)

Although i’ve already finished playing this game (100% Completion) .. but this issue still bothering me especially because i’ve never experienced problem like this in the previous Need for Speed series .. ah .. well .. i think i have to give up on solving this issue because it doesn’t affect my savegame at all (savegame not corrupted)

At least i know that it was EA fault because my computer is in their recommended hardware requirement to play this game .. and as a note, i didn’t apply 1.3 patch .. because i don’t think it’ll solve the crash to desktop problem (try reading the NFS Carbon 1.3 Patch changelog)

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  1. Dany said Mar 9, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Guys, I had a crash to desktop problem with my ‘nfs underground 2′ and ‘most wanted’, but only when I run it in high graphic settings. At low settings, I don’t find any crash problem. MAYBE, racing games like nfs need a graphics card with high memory bandwidth, like 8800 GT. Try running it at lower details, NOT lower resolutions (like mine works good at 1280×960, with low details). Try it out and let me know……….

  2. Dany said Mar 9, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Guys, I had a crash to desktop problem with my ‘nfs underground 2′ and ‘most wanted’, but only when I run it in high graphic settings. At low settings, I don’t find any crash problem. MAYBE, racing games like nfs need a graphics card with high memory bandwidth, like 8800 GT.

  3. Caitlin said Feb 28, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Does someone know when Damnation for Xbox360 will be released?

  4. RubyBlue said Jan 29, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    I have little diffrent problem but maybe is the same. The game normally work , install but there is one point on Angie terytory , where when I drive it crashing me to desktop. I can’t past this level. I try manual copy my files , but still not working . I install it in another computer a not much worst from mine, but there work correct. Do you know maybe somethingg? I installed all patches , try to CPU 0 and still crashed.

  5. Silk said Jan 1, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    My Nfs Carbon is also crashing to desktop , specially at Angies zone ,I tried to respray the car and change the parts , and it worked , but I had a problem with my save game, now I can’t make the car like before and I have again problems running the game! My Game is 1.2 version and sometimes it also crashes when I’m changing the parts, buying a car or starting the game! I tried with patches and it didn’t worked , now I’m trying with the CPU 0 affinity to see if it works !!! If I have a solution , I will tell U about it !!!

  6. Asim said Jan 1, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Yeah, also got same prob here…..like after completing some races or selecting cars etc……..if anyone have idea to fix ntis prob tell me :- asimdbest@yahoo.com

  7. Vincent said Oct 1, 2008 at 5:23 am

    Oke I am one of the many people that also faces this problem, just bought NFS Carbon, worked until I reached 46% and now it keeps crashing when I am racing. very VERY annoying.

    My system:

    Vista with dual core 4400 2.21 ghz and geforce 8600 overclocked edition.
    320 gb SATA

    Gr.

    Vincent

  8. kenshin said Sep 3, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Everytime i play kempton territory in career mode it crashes to desktop but all the other territories are okay, why is that happening?

    My system:
    Vista home premium 32 bit
    Intel PDC E2200 @ 2.20 ghz
    Asus P5GC-MX/1333 i945GC
    2 ghz RAM
    nVIDIA 8400GS w/ 256 mb RAM
    160 gb sata

    Problem results:
    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
    Application Name: NFSC.exe
    Application Version: 0.0.0.0
    Application Timestamp: 4534574b
    Fault Module Name: NFSC.exe
    Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
    Fault Module Timestamp: 4534574b
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Offset: 001f9d69
    OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: 774a
    Additional Information 2: f150348cb387381f75c6060124676eae
    Additional Information 3: ca6f
    Additional Information 4: b160192e151d698bb3f0c4392025495b

  9. goran said Jul 20, 2008 at 4:55 am

    3.06 GHz
    1 GB RAM
    GeForce 8400 GS
    160 GB SATA

    The game also crashes to desktop. I tried messing with the video settings, but it didn`t work out.

  10. Reaper-X said Jul 1, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    according to ea, patch 1.3 solve online issue … but i haven’t tested it yet

  11. moden said Jul 1, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    im having the crash to desktop issue but only when i try to sign on to ea nation to play online… is there a patch for that?

  12. Joe D said Jun 14, 2008 at 10:44 am

    People,
    This indicates only ONE logical problem.
    The GAME is buggy. The crashes are because the program is issuing commands that cannot be executed with MOST configurations.
    It is not YOUR systems fault, It may be DIRECTX10 or Vista (admin) commands it is issuing(as those appear to be the only working scenarios. When THIS many people have a problem, it points a single finger to the manufacturer and their greed in releasing a product that has not been successfully tested. Shame on EA.

    Joe D

  13. Uchiha Madara said May 16, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    Hi I was able to figure it out.

    I install DX 10 for windows XP.Just try searching it on google. Works wonders for me. No crash or CTD.

  14. Uchiha Madara said May 16, 2008 at 10:22 am

    I was able to play NFSC. But on the “career” section after I beat Kenji, I received a message from YUMI. Following Her direction I try to locate her. On the middle of try to locate her PC freezes or Crashes to desktop.

    I reboot and start again the race and beat kenji again. But the same scenario happends.

    My PC’s not quite powerful as the others:

    Celeron D 2.26
    512 mb DDR
    ATI radeon 9250 128 mb

  15. spectra7045 said Mar 8, 2008 at 3:28 am

    I resolved the crash to desktop issue under vista by right clicking the exe or the shortcut on the desktop and selecting run as administrator.
    hope this helps you

  16. HaoDe said Feb 29, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    I got a Laptop with
    >Intel T2250 @ 1.73GHz
    >Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family
    >1Gb ram

    I cant play the games,after the splash screen the screen blink a few times but nothing happened.

    help me > email me or post back here
    Thanks in advance

  17. wolfman said Feb 21, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    i have sp3 just downloaded

  18. Pouf said Jan 8, 2008 at 3:11 am

    Hi ! I’m one of yours : I can’t do 2 of the 3 first races because it crashes always at the same spot, like ‘THE DEVL’. So I did 1 race & 1% of the game… I think It can’t be a multi-core problem or a graphics card problem ‘caus it doesn’t ramdomly appears…
    I tried everything, I don’t know what to do, now…

    If a genius (or a messiah !) can find a solution, thanks to him…

  19. the devl said Nov 12, 2007 at 4:33 am

    my NFSC crashes always at same spot in many races.
    and i hate it that this game doesn’t support Widescreen. i am Hoping for a patch soon.

  20. kokomo said Nov 9, 2007 at 10:39 am

    I think I fixed it!! Guys try these:

    1. install patch 1.4
    2. disable network cards (disable internet access)
    3. launch nfs-carbon.
    4. If you have multi-core CPU, press ctrl-alt-del, right click on nfsc process, set affinity, set it to use 1 CPU only.

    I’ve had 0 crashes after I’ve done these.
    Have fun!

  21. Van said Oct 7, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    I bought this game and I own alot of EA games.

    1. EA doesnt have widescreen support so i had to patch that up
    2. Every time i win a boss race, it doesnt save and then it crashes to the Desktop.

    This is dead set bloody annoying. I own the G25 racing wheel and this game is by far the most fun to play.

    I have tried running this game on the shittest settings, lowest resolutions, in window mode, in windows 2000 mode. Nothing works. Im beginning to feel its XP is crap with dual core.

  22. kworx said Oct 6, 2007 at 4:21 am

    Well, I have the same problem, after a few runs and races it crashes to desktop, I don’t think I have any overheating issues as my temperatures for both my GFX cards are ~60C and CPU Temperature rizes up to about 50C. My ram is brand new. No other game crashes except this one.

    I did have another issue with this game, while I was testing my pc hardware, I had one GFX card (I have 2x eVGA 6800 Ultras) in the slot, my game did pop a BSoD saying that nv4_disp.dll is conflicting with something. It was a 0×8E error. After thinking that it was my hardware, I took everything off, cleaned and reseated everything back. I still had the same errors. (I have worked as a computer technician before and used measures in order not to be statically charged, so the issue that i might have defected a hardware is out of the question).

    So i tried running the game through linux (Cedega), it told me that it was unable to read/write on a memory module. So I decided to try with SLi, run perfectly full graphics, but crashes to desktop.

    Maybe EA has intended to publish this game for VISTA Components (Software/Hardware) and payed less attention to other O/S’s Component requirements.

    Just for posting sakes here are my specs.

    Motherboard: MSI K8N Platinum SLi
    CPU: Athlon AMD64 FX-55@2.6GHz
    RAM: 2GB Ram (Ultra)
    GFX: 2x eVGA 6800 Ultra
    2×200GB Maxtor SATA

    And tried playing this game on another machine that had same specs with 1xXFX8800GT (NO CRASHES).

    I think maybe EA did a mistake on this one? And afaik Carbon is not a major thing and probably the most “crashing” game that came out in 2006. A lot of people had problems with this game. Either we wait for next patch, or next NFS game?

    Suggestions:
    1. Try running the game on low graphics, (even for the hardcore machines) just to see if it’s rendering related.
    2. Remove all drivers of your graphics card first and then try latest or the minimum driver that works for NFSC.
    3. Take out your components, clean them and re-seat them.
    The last and most severe suggestion is:
    4. Try reinstalling you Windows after doing step 3..

    And for you NVIDIA users don’t forget to check the 3D profiles, sometimes it helps a lot. (I don’t know about ATI).

  23. BuRHan said Sep 17, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    hey guys…. i used to have the same problem on XP like it flash and goes bak to screen….well then i installed vista and it worked fine for me on low settings like see i donot it never crashes me anymore sincle i installed vista and ya remember dont forget to turn off ur AERO…to free up more memory unless u have realli hardcore graphic card…..oh well heres mah specs

    INTEL CORE 2 ` 1.60
    2GB RAM
    160 HDD
    INTEL 950GMA WITH 224MB SHARED MEMORY.

    WELL if u wanna run NEED FOR SPEED u need to install vista and put on low settings and YA REMEMBER I USED TO HAVE XP ON THE SAME MACHINE AS I JUST INSTALLED VISTA ON……and by the way this is a LAPTOP not a desktop soo if a LAPTOP CAN RUN LIKE THIS DESKTOP WILL RUN FOR SURE….

    peaceee

  24. Magnusgutten said Sep 13, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    I know whats the problem, overheating, it is something about the game that makes the cooling system go slower than it should so the pc go warm and close the game to cool down. This should be easy to fix, if it was any way to make the cooling system work harder while playing the game.

  25. Joe said Sep 13, 2007 at 3:52 pm

  26. Joe said Sep 13, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    I’m having the same problem the game crashes when I enter the car lot or choosing a car for quick race

    Nvidia Geforce 7300 GT
    2.8 dual-core
    2GB DDR2
    250GB

    HELPPPPPPP!!!

  27. cnv said Sep 13, 2007 at 6:46 am

  28. Magnusgutten said Sep 10, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    Isnt there anyone who knows a permanent fix? EA games is not going to release a fix patch for NFS Carbon, they dont know whats wrong so they cant fix it, isnt there any computer genious out there who can find a permanent fix for this?

  29. 6Cra6Zy6 said Sep 9, 2007 at 1:00 am

    alright….i do suffer from the same problem BUT only when i enable the option ‘high’ for car details. usually i run it at 800×600 with all other settings at either low or off. I rarely get those annoying crashes though it has not happen yet (i don’t play for too long 1-2 hours).

    Anyone experiencing those crashes do try to do the same…though the game may still crash but less frequently :)

    i have an Nvidia 6500,P1.6 Ghz (dual core),1 GB ram running under win xp sp2

  30. CGB said Sep 3, 2007 at 6:49 am

    Same things. NFS:C crashes to desktop. Crashed on my old pc an crashes on the current one too.

    Old pc:

    AMD 3200+ Venice
    Asus A8NE Deluxe
    2×512MB DDR 400
    GeForce 6600 GT

    Current pc:

    E4400 Core 2 Duo
    Asus P5B
    2×1GB DDR2 800
    GeForce 7600 GST

    Did countless hours of memory and CPU tests but system is working fine, no other game crashes. Most up-to-date drivers as possible. I have XP. Tried older graphics drivers and also tried no-sp, sp1 and sp2. Tried 1.3 and 1.4. Still it crashes when choosing cars or doing a couple of events.

    Seems to be a ****ing bug that pisses me off every time I win a tough event. Sp **** this ****…i’m going back to ARMA!:):D:P

  31. namso786 said Aug 26, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    OMG this is really fkn anoying now. I tried so hard to win this race and as soon as i finished it crash =.=” SOME ONE PLEAE OMG HELP!!!!

    i will give the dual core thing a try i mean it cant be my system… look

    Intel core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4ghz
    2GB Dual channel ram
    Ge force 8600GT
    320GB hdd

    cant be my pc…

    thanks

  32. Charles said Aug 18, 2007 at 9:51 am

    I just bought this NFS Carbon from Future Shop today. I installed it as normal procedure dictates. Then just when the game was loading, it hangs on the last screen before the main menu just after I entered my name initials. It froze there. I rebooted my system. Froze again. Rebooted, froze again. I uninstalled it and reintalled it. Froze again. I figured. MY PC is not the problem. I have 320 GB + 160 GB hard drive, 2 GB RAM. 3.2 clock speed. Pentium D with 256 MB ati 9600 video card. This is the only game that freezes.

    My verdict. RETURNING IT BACK TO FUTURE SHOP! NOW!

  33. Orpheous said Aug 2, 2007 at 2:59 am

    I was just googling for fixes as I’m having the same problems, read this page and thought I’d post too.
    My system:
    Win XP SP2
    Intel P4 3Ghz
    1Gb DDR 400
    Asus P4P800 mobo
    2 X 320Gb SATA HDD’s
    ATI 9600 pro (8 X AGP) with latest Catalyst drivers

    Issue seems intermittent, after anywhere between half an hour and 2 hours of play, game hangs, crashes to desktop and a windows error pops up. I’ve clicked on debug for the last 10 or so times, but it doesn’t seem to have made a difference.
    I’ve even tried shutting down as many background processes, without success.

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as it’s pi$$ing me off too!

  34. Ed11516 said Jun 27, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    Same problem here..
    NFS Carbon Crashes all the time to desktop (aproximitely after 2 hours of play..)
    All other games run Fine and Smooth with No crash..

    For SP1 I had crash to desktop, and for SP2 i had “Not Responding” Window..

    My system is..:
    AMD X2 3800+
    Asus M2N32-SLi Deluxe
    1GB Corsair DDR2 800Mhz
    250 GB WD SATA2
    MSI 7900GTX
    X-FI Extreme Gamer
    450Watt Asus Power Supply

    Soo.. I Fully Know that this is not My PCs problem, because As I told already, at about 20-30 new games Has no Crash at All..

    But for you to make sure..
    Run Memtest86+ Ram Test for 5-6 Hours (leave for the night) (http://www.memtest.org/#downiso)

    Run “ORTHOS” Test for 8-12 Hours
    For Single Core – http://sp2004.fre3.com/sp2004exe_20060405.cab
    For Dual Core – http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm

    Aand 3D mark for 12 Hours too..
    http://www.futuremark.com/

    All this software is Free (except for some advanced 3D MArk features you will need to pay). And I think they are really usefull.. (NO WAREZ)

    Ok now.. If you got 3D Mark crash all the timem or certain test fail to finish.. It means that you have some problems with VGA, sometimes overheating.. sometimes faulty Card)

    If you got MemTest86+ Crash, it more likely that you have setted up incorrect timings to ram, or the Ram is faulty.. If you have multiple Sticks try testing with only one stick

    ORTHOS Crash Usually means that you have setted up incorrect timings too, and or YOur CPU experiencing Overheating.. or in worth case it is faulty

    This is the 1st test that professional would do at home to test Hes Personal Computer..
    Hope for you all Ok.

    p.s. Sorry for my Bad English, I am From Lithuania, And I speak rarely in it..
    Btw. Today PC gaming is kinda complexed, many systems, many developers.. It is hard to make bug Free game for all systems..

    Regards

  35. The0nlyon3 said Jun 6, 2007 at 11:56 am

    OK, I am really getting pissed off… i have tried EVERYTHING! i have tried setting the affinity to cpu 0, then cpu 1 and that worked twice… then i tried some other crap, still didn’t work… i am only angry at the fact that i paid $40 for this game, and EA has yet to even send the people that purchased the game a email saying that they understand there is a problem and that they are working on it… PISSS! ohh and my splinter cell double agent is like in permanent slow motion…

  36. Adherence said Mar 24, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    must be. It is quite strange though cause I can’t recall that any of EA’s other games crashed like this. But, the thing that I find disturbing is the amount of time that passed between the releases of the last two NFS’s. I remember thinking when NFS:C was released, “Wow, that soon already!?”. Just a thought…

  37. Reaper-X said Mar 22, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    dunno but if i recall correctly there’s someone using the xbox360 version got the same crash problem lol

    i guess the crash problem is just the new features built in by ea team :P

  38. Adherence said Mar 21, 2007 at 9:44 pm

    No. I give up. Game crashed again – every thing I’ve tried thusfar seems to work for a day or two then it’s back to the beginning. It’s almost as if NFS:C has some sort of AI that adapts to the fixes then nails you when you least expect it. I think by the time there’s a fix a newer NFS might be out.

    Luckily, there are other racing games out there that offer the same amount of fun. Colin Mcrae and the GT series are of the same quality. Why, o WHY doesn’t this happen on consoles?

  39. Reaper-X said Mar 19, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Thanks for the tips Adherence :)

  40. Adherence said Mar 18, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Note that it’s not a definite fix but I haven’t crashed at the usual spots with the 84.21 running yet. It’s worth trying out as nothing else seems to have helped.

  41. Adherence said Mar 18, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    I’ve found a fix thats more reliable than my previous theory. I have 2 pc’s with the same o/s and software – almost identical. My older pc didn’t crash. The newer dual-core sli one did. Both pcs had the 6600gt running EXCEPT that the older one was running on 84.21 forceware. I replaced the newest drivers (still wondering why nvidia hasn’t released an update apart from the beta one) with the 84.21 and was pleasantly surprised with NO crash issues thusfar.

  42. Reaper-X said Mar 12, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    what nvidia driver version installed on your system ? and what is your windows version ? is it SP2 or SP1 ?

  43. david said Mar 12, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    ok so i dont have a dual core but it does the same thing but i wont evern get it to restart it just goes black soo i dont know what to do if i put in one of my spairs and run it for 20 min or so and then put my 6800 back in it runs fine for about 1hr then dies and i have to do it all over agein

  44. Adherence said Feb 15, 2007 at 1:46 am

    I have a 3.2 Dual-core cpu and Microsoft provided a hotfix for users who have performance issues. The article states that it is not intended for AMD cpu’s so use of the fix is entirely your own decision.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256

    Other than that the only advice given from them is to update your cpu drivers.
    Good Luck.

  45. Nathan Blakeslee said Feb 14, 2007 at 10:56 am

    yeah, i have a dual core AMD 4400 processor that runs at 2.21GHz and the game requires 1.71GHz… when i run easyinfo, it says my processor is running at -8325.8MHz… something is wrong… i don’t think a processor can run -MHz… everything else works with flying colors…

  46. Adherence said Feb 8, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    If its not a dual-core problem, check that you have the latest graphics drivers installed and that your pc is not overheating as the game does draw a lot of resources from both your cpu and gpu.

  47. Adherence said Feb 8, 2007 at 8:07 pm

    There seems to be a problem with dual-core machines and nfs:c. Minimize game to desktop press ctrl+alt+del and go to the nfsc.exe process and set the affinity to only cpu 0. it’s a temporary fix that worked for me.

  48. Reaper-X said Jan 29, 2007 at 8:07 am

    If its for me im only experiencing random crash. Sometime i was able to play non stop for about 2 – 3 hours without crashing to desktop .. and sometime when i choose a car, it just go back to desktop immediately

    the only solution i can think of is … wait for another update from EA (maybe 1.4 update) because the 1.3 patch does nothing other than fixing online problem with NFS carbon, so there’s no need to use that patch

  49. Aidan said Jan 28, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    Well mine is the same, see, whenever i look at two,three cars and finish four races than it crashes to the desktop. and also after a race, the loading seems a little slow and jerky and also in movie scenes like cross getting out of his car saying ’sit down’ and all that and the part when you get busted its SLOW! Please email me as soon as possible!
    thanks!

  50. Raiz said Jan 25, 2007 at 4:36 am

    Got the same problem, and when trying to start the game again, either it crashes again, or reset my computer.. This really bother me, cause I feel like i’ll never complete this game as its crashing after 2-3 races, I sometimes have to redo some races because of the crash, and worst of all, reboot my computer after one crash.

    So.. yeah, if anyone got a solution for this “issue”, I would love to hear from you by email/MSN :raizor91@gmail.com

    Peace.

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