My guide to getting NFSSE/NFS2SE/NFS3/NFS4 to work (plus many more) is now (and updated) here: A LOT of WindowsXP fixes... Ice

Ah good old Need For Speed SE. So flakey! I can't run it on Windows 98 unless I run DxDiag and disable DirectDraw altogether temporarily (re-enable it after or no other games will work!). If that doesn't work, find your Display settings then go to the Performance tab and reduce that until the game - …