If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

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If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby AaronS » Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:08 pm

I'm really p'od Madden won't run properly on my laptop with a full HD display, yet it will run on an ancient laptop with weak specs from 2005.

If you have and are running Madden 2004, please post your system specifications.
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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby NickyJ » Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:47 pm

Mine has the same numbers problem, but...

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, AMD Athlon II X4 630 Processor, 6 GB Ram, and Nvidia GeForce 9100 graphics card.
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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby TVGuy22 » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:42 pm

Make sure the resolution isn't set too high.

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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby Redwolf » Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:27 am

AMD Phenom X4 965, 8gb ram, Nvidia GTX 460 1gb (superclocked version) - Windows 7 64-bit home ed.

I run it at 1600x1024x32 with full 32xCSAA & 16xAnsio - looks great with no number problems at all for me (I never had them ever, even on previous systems with different cards (eg. Radeon).

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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby StratPlayer » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:23 am

Hi.

New user here -- found this site and trolled for a while. Decided to try going back to Madden 2004 based on the threads comparing it to 2008 and the cheat-from-behind game-skewing issues that get more pronounced with later versions.

I had Madden 2004 years ago but got rid of it, so re-ordered it from Amazon and got it delivered yesterday, installed it, and sure enough -- I have the same dang "no numbers" issue. My laptop is a pretty new HP Pavilion with an Intel i7 CPU and 8G of RAM, but it doesn't even HAVE a dedicated video card. It uses the Intel HD 3000 graphics system integrated into the CPU.

Frustrating! I was really looking forward to giving 2004 another go.

By the way, I also have Madden 2008 installed (and it runs just great)-- could it be anything to do with a conflict between the two games?

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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby NFLVICK7 » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:57 am

StratPlayer wrote:Hi.

New user here -- found this site and trolled for a while. Decided to try going back to Madden 2004 based on the threads comparing it to 2008 and the cheat-from-behind game-skewing issues that get more pronounced with later versions.

I had Madden 2004 years ago but got rid of it, so re-ordered it from Amazon and got it delivered yesterday, installed it, and sure enough -- I have the same dang "no numbers" issue. My laptop is a pretty new HP Pavilion with an Intel i7 CPU and 8G of RAM, but it doesn't even HAVE a dedicated video card. It uses the Intel HD 3000 graphics system integrated into the CPU.

Frustrating! I was really looking forward to giving 2004 another go.

By the way, I also have Madden 2008 installed (and it runs just great)-- could it be anything to do with a conflict between the two games?

I just installed madden 04 last night and I have 08 installed too, and I don't have any issue. I have windows 7 64 bit.

I don't know all my system specs. But yea it works fine for me.
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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby PML17 » Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:02 pm

I can run 04 max out without any issue on my laptop i'm using for now :

Windows XP* Home Edition, Service Pack 3, Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 430 @ 1.73GHz Processor, 504 MB Ram, and Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family.
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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby Gridiron » Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:45 pm

XP Professional (32 bit)
Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz
2GB RAM
Radeon HD 6700 Series
No problem

Vista Ultimate (64 bit)
Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-70 @ 2 GHz
3GB RAM
Radeon HD 3200 Series
No problem
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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby AaronS » Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:06 pm

PMan17 wrote:I can run 04 max out without any issue on my laptop i'm using for now :

Windows XP* Home Edition, Service Pack 3, Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 430 @ 1.73GHz Processor, 504 MB Ram, and Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family.


My laptop has the Intel Mobile chipset as well.

I think my problem is it only dedicates 128MB(GB?) to graphics and the game requires 256.

.. shouldn't have gotten rid of my desktop is what this comes down to. A mistake I will soon rectify.
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Re: If you run Madden 2004, please post your systems specs

Postby footbfreaker » Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:06 am

Hello,

This is for anyone who loves Madden 2004 and cannot get it to work on Windows 7.

I use Windows 7 Home on a Asus Crosshair IV Formula using a XFX Radeon 6950 2 GB with 16GB of ramm.

I use to play Madden 2004 all the time. Now with a new work schedule and more free time I get to play my old favorite NFL game again. Honestly, I love Madden 2004 because of ONE thing, the option to turn off the salary cap, NO OTHER MADDEN VERSION ALLOWS THIS. I tend to play coach mode most of the time but play a season or two every now and then as well. With 2004 you can create great players where you want them without dealing with the restricted cap nonsense. Creating teams is fun to, you can almost customize everything. It's a game, a single-player game for most, so why shouldn't I be allowed to do what I want? I don't make a team complete with all 99 rated players, I mix it up realistically and have fun. I don't have to play endless seasons and make trades and picks and salary decisions. It's the way it should be.

In Windows 7 all you do is install it as usual then right-click the desktop app icon and scroll to properties. Click on compatibility tab. THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IS CHECK THE 'RUN IN 256 COLORS' BOX. No need to run compatibility mode or anything else. Apply and ok.
Then when you start up game and select play it may look fuzzy and strange during loading but eventually a black box should pop up(it did for me) that allows you to choose your video card settings. On my card with this game the highest resolution I can choose is 1600x1200. I use a Asus 26" widescreen LCD set at 1920x1200 and this setting fills the screen during gameplay and looks great for a 2004 game. I had to do this box thing a few times but after that it remembers it and skips it and it just automatically goes to the play screen, then after you choose play it goes through a loading process, looks fuzzy and weird again, but starts up and plays perfect. Took me about 10 minutes after install to figure it out.There has to be more people then just me, us, who wish to play this legendary version on Windows 7 so I thought I would explain how I got it to work so others who may come here after finding this page through a search engine like I did don't have to go through the nonsense to get it to work. -freak



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