An install tip for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Sep 27, '03 11:45:00PM • Contributed by: robg
After too many minutes of frustration installing Aspyr's Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 this afternoon, I thought I'd document this one for future reference ... at least as of version 1.0, the game must be installed on your boot volume. There's no warning to this effect in the Read Me or the installer ... but if you choose another drive, the game will just unexpectedly quit after choosing your game settings.
I even tried using aliases on the boot volume, but got the same behavior. Only by moving the entire game folder onto the boot drive was I able to make it work.
As an aside, the game seems relatively interesting, though it's quite the resource hog -- even at 800x600 with fog enabled, the frame rate really suffers in spots on my G4/733 with GeForce3. And I think I'd need to get a gamepad to more accurately review the playability -- this is clearly not a keyboard game! :)