Tiger Woods 2007

"Dale M. White" wrote:

>
> If everything works under XP mode, then I would suggest looking at possibly
> going to a place like gamecopyworld.com and grabbing a no CD crack to get
> around the Insert CD issue.
>
>

This actually got the game running--thanks. There are other / different
problems now but your suggestion does get the game to continue from hole to
hole without crashing the display driver. Now large sections of graphics are
shaded in black and white and some graphics are all black or missing...weird
stuff.
There's more awry here. (drivers: I'm using 101.41 from nvidia and all
other latest for mb, sound, dvd, etc.)

If you are using a nvidia card, there is an ongoing battle with drivers and
Vista. Someone had brought this up awhile back and I looked in the EA forums
and there were several people running the game, but they all had an ATI
card. So you're going to be stuck waiting a little while longer while nvisia
sorts out their drivers.

On a side note, I'mplaying Supreme commander, which is an official Games for
Windows Certified game and though I wasn't having a direct problem with it's
SecureRom, the boards were full of people having issues. Funny enough, Under
Vista, I could only get the game to work, if I had it in my First DVD rom
drive and I had to take out my Battlefield2142 DVD as well.

THQ and Gaspowered games actually listen to the complaints and in their last
patch removed the DVD check. I mention this, because I was getting much
BSODs under Vista and SupCom, until I loaded a DVD crack for the game. I'm
still getting CTDs, but that's better than a BSOD.

"Richard XXII" <RichardXXII@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BF06EB89-116C-4FAA-ACF7-68071B021063@microsoft.com...

>
>
> "Dale M. White" wrote:
>
>

>>
>> If everything works under XP mode, then I would suggest looking at
>> possibly
>> going to a place like gamecopyworld.com and grabbing a no CD crack to get
>> around the Insert CD issue.
>>
>>

> This actually got the game running--thanks. There are other / different
> problems now but your suggestion does get the game to continue from hole
> to
> hole without crashing the display driver. Now large sections of graphics
> are
> shaded in black and white and some graphics are all black or
> missing...weird
> stuff.
> There's more awry here. (drivers: I'm using 101.41 from nvidia and all
> other latest for mb, sound, dvd, etc.)

"Dale M. White" wrote:

> It seems a fair number of people are having trouble with this game. I read
> over in the Tiger Woods forums that peopel were able to get the 2005 version
> to work fine, but couldn't get the 2007 version. If I had any interest in
> that style of game, I would go buy it, just to see if I could get it to
> work. But I don't care for golf games...
>
> If everything works under XP mode, then I would suggest looking at possibly
> going to a place like gamecopyworld.com and grabbing a no CD crack to get
> around the Insert CD issue.

That won't fix it.
EA says wait for TW 2008
I guess they have to have something different in it so thee can call it a
new game Welcome to TW2008! Everything is the same except you can run it
under Vista! for only 39.99

This was one of my most played games and now it's dead.
I keep hoping the next video driver will fix it but I'm not holding my breath.

>
>
> "Richard XXII" <RichardXXII@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5304FF5B-97F5-4858-A167-EF72F9B7575D@microsoft.com...

> > This is the only game I've had trouble with running under Vista. Running
> > in
> > compatibility for XPsp2 forces an incorrect "please insert cd" when it is.
> > At the conclusion of each hole a scorecard/scoreboard appears and causes
> > the
> > display driver to crash. I've tried a few different settings etc but no
> > luck.
> > This is the newest PC Golf game out there--isn't it? Someone must have a
> > trick or tip to get this game running under Vista.
> > or I bet there are quite a few disgruntled armchair golfers out here...
> >
> > Any tips/suggestions will be appreciated.

>
>
>

Anyway to make this game work with Vista?

What is your system specs ? I posted over in www.Vistareadygames.com that it
worked for me straight out the box. From what I've read in the EA Forums
and here is most of the people have trouble have nVidia cards. I have an ATI
card. I played about 9 holes without any issues.

What exactly is the problem you're having ?


"Mike Sisto" <mikesisto@cox.net> wrote in message
news:eilS4iHeHHA.3552@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> Anyway to make this game work with Vista?

Time of this report: 4/6/2007, 16:26:37
Machine name: MIKE-PC
Operating System: Windows VistaT Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
(6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: GATEWAY
System Model: GT5404
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Page File: 1030MB used, 1264MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode

---------------
Display Devices
---------------
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7600 GS
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0392&SUBSYS_22211682&REV_A1
Display Memory: 503 MB
Dedicated Memory: 248 MB
Shared Memory: 254 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.0065 (English)
DDI Version: 9Ex
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 2/10/2007 10:48:00, 4644864 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes

It hangs up and screen goes black when loading any course.

"Mike Sisto" wrote:

> Time of this report: 4/6/2007, 16:26:37
> Machine name: MIKE-PC
> Operating System: Windows VistaT Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
> (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
> Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
> System Manufacturer: GATEWAY
> System Model: GT5404
> BIOS: Default System BIOS
> Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
> Memory: 1022MB RAM
> Page File: 1030MB used, 1264MB available
> Windows Dir: C:\Windows
> DirectX Version: DirectX 10
> DX Setup Parameters: Not found
> DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode
>
> ---------------
> Display Devices
> ---------------
> Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
> Manufacturer: NVIDIA
> Chip type: GeForce 7600 GS
> DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
> Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0392&SUBSYS_22211682&REV_A1
> Display Memory: 503 MB
> Dedicated Memory: 248 MB
> Shared Memory: 254 MB
> Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
> Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
> Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
> Driver Version: 7.15.0011.0065 (English)
> DDI Version: 9Ex
> Driver Attributes: Final Retail
> Driver Date/Size: 2/10/2007 10:48:00, 4644864 bytes
> WHQL Logo'd: Yes
>
> It hangs up and screen goes black when loading any course.

That is correct. ;-)
It sucks but it isn't going to get fixed according to EA

>

Newest NVIDIA driver solves the problem for me. Driver version is a "beta"
atm but fixes TW2007. --->google for driver version 165.01.