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Zeke1902

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13 years ago

Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed does not run at all!

Well first off, yes I know this board is for Hot Pursuit, but there is no board for Shift 2 so I am placing this here.

I bought this game about three weeks ago on steam. Steam has been giving zero customer support as far as getting this game to work or offering a refund.

I have tried every possible solution in the book as far as any article I could look up with similar problems that were reported to EA customer support.

The issue I am having is activation.exe launches, I enter my serial and it is accepted...as soon as I click okay the application closes and the game DOES NOT launch at all.

I have tried:

-removing activation.exe and shift2u.exe from DEP

-reinstalling the game

-reinstalling physx

-reinstalling the latest graphics drivers for nvidia 640m and EVEN older graphics cards, all with no success

-I have run the program in adminstrator mode with windows 7 compatibility

-I have tried activating it both offline and online

Nothing works, this game fails to cooperate. Steam refuses to offer any sort of refund or support aside from typical "copy and paste answers" which is an absolute shame. I am in the military so my time on the internet is extremely limited as is, and so is spending time to try fixing this game.

Any help offered that has not been listed above is welcome.

26 Replies

Anonymous
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13 years ago
@Zeke1902 wrote:

Going to try downloading it via origin now. Hopefully I will get it done before I leave again on Monday. I'm also downloading the graphics card update to see if that works.

If ever you can, please post a comment on this and let us know how it goes - Thanks.
Anonymous
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13 years ago
Turns out after not playing the game for awhile and renaming the application again it started working perfectly again for me. Did this way work for anyone else? Just curious.
Anonymous
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13 years ago
Thank you bradcq. I am happy to hear that and indeed if some players could also post their feedback on this, that would be very helpful.

In the meantime I will list below the workarounds mentioned in this thread that could help in resolving this issue:

Updating OS Windows (e.g. Service Pack 1) - by roguetwo

Downloading the game via Origin - By bradcq

Updating video card drivers - By th3f15t
Anonymous
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13 years ago
There is an update for my drivers available, but it won't install correctly so I had to roll back to my previous version.
Zeke1902
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12 years ago
Just wanted to update I tried this out finally. Turns out the fix was that newest graphics card update NVIDIA pushed out. The game works fine now.
Anonymous
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11 years ago
It works with your solution. Thank you very much!