Recently bought NFS:PU in the economy jewel box version. Installed under WinXP Home, SP2 without any problems at all and runs perfectly. Happy surprise since others have reported being unable to install or run under WinXP. My guess is EA has fixed the WinXP issues, and/or WinXP SP2 has improved Win9x compatibility. Game version is 3.2 according to a file in the installed game folder. My system is a homebuilt, Sempron 2300+ with Radeon 9600 Pro.

I'm using XP SP2 with an Athlon XP 2600+ and a Geforce 7600 GT (Forceware 93.71). The game is patched to version 3.5

The Game installs flawlessly, but without any modifications will stay in the first loadingscreen, or crash when it should enter the mainmenu afterwards. I can make it run by either using the Windows 95 or Windows 98 Compatibilitymode, but the game will run extremely slow i.e. not playable (visibile on the "3D effects" in the menus and ingame).

I try both System Windows Xp & Windows98, Processor 900 MHz, 2GB Free Hard Disk Space, 810Intel chipset Board, DirectX9.0C,.......
when this game starts loading, After EA Logo game Pause at Need4Speed Logo. and stay at the loading screen forever.I check this on many configrations but results are same.