Game installs if you use compatiblity mode for Win98/Me. Strange since it was designed for XP.

Performance doesn't seem to be as good as on XP (32 bit) but the game does seem more stable on my setup.

Crashes after playing a rendered movie (vp6). Videocard is Radeon 9550 128MB AGP on nForce3 MB.

Running with Windows 98/ME compatablity and disabling Visual Themes and Disabling Desktop Composition, the program seems to run fine.

No major issues. Hard to tell if there is a performance hit because this is a totally rebuilt system for me.

System Info:
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6000)
System Manufacturer: ECS
System Model: K8T890-A
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, ~2.4GHz
Memory: 1534MB RAM
Page File: 1124MB used, 2646MB available
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7900 GS

System Info:
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Premium
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz HT
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 682MB used, 2175MB available
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7300 GS

Runs for awhile about 10-30 min on average then freezes my comp. Built my computer recently so don't know why...

Have dual boot XP (32bit & 64 bit), doesn't like 64 but runs great on 32 system:

AMD Athlon64 3700+ 2.2GHz
1 GB, 3GB pagefile
GeForce 7600GT

Works fine for me after me after adjusting the compatibility to win 98
all graphics option to maximum and using 2X Anti aliasing

Windows Vista Enterprise x64
AMD Athlon 64X2 5200+ 2.6 Ghz
2 GB Ram
4 GB paging files
GeForce 7600GS 256 Mb
nVidia Nforce 570 ultra mobo

I like it

after installing my right and left arrows dont work,

checked with most wanted and it has the same problem , any ideas?

Installed fine, without Vista yelling at me, but the game will still not run. No matter what combination of compatibility options I use. It will start to load, then crash out. When the box comes up that gives me the option to check online for a solution, that does not work either

Dell Inspiron 1300, 1 gig ram + 1 gig ready boost (Cruzer 2 gig, 1 gig set aside for ready boost), Vista x86

This game works great under vista (i have a good graphics card so i don't see the difference but there is a difference).
In order to make the game work, you have to rename the MOVIES folder in the game folder, it wont have those movies but it'll work swell.

With the 1.4 patch http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/NFS/carbon the game runs fine under Vista x64.

My specs:

AMD Athlon64x2 6000+
Asus nforce 560SLI
ATI Radeon HD3870
4GB mushkin 800mhz
inboard soundcard
160 GB hard disk
Zalman 9700 CPU cooler
Antec 900 case
HKC 580W SUPER SILENT PSU
WINDOWS VISTA Ultimate 64Bit

Ok heres the story, I have a bad day always with vista. because "need for speed carbon" freezes my computer and I can't play it.

This is what I did.. follow this steps after you installed nfs carbon

Right click on the need for speed icon on desktop click properties, compatibility tab, then click run as admin,click win98 and finally click ok

Download the latest need for speed patch version 1.4 this fixes the crashing on windows vista in my computer *info above* I had zero problems with ati 3870 after this


My amd proccess 98%
My ati radeon card has temp of 89%
Motherboard temp: 40 degrees
Set my zalman 9700 to max speed
My resolution set to MAX

My AA set to 4x

And All Maximum i get fps of 40 in game. Heh thanks ati

the game runs great under windows vista x64