Just upgraded from XP Pro to WINDOWS 7 Home Premium 32-bit and found out that Need For Speed Carbon crashes immediately upon execution. Tried setting it up with compatability mode for Win98, Win2000/me, and Win Vista SP1 as suggested on google hits with others with this game crashing with Win 7, as well as renaming Movie folder in game to Movie1 and it still crashes with same result. Below is the crash info. Anyone know of the fix to this or ABLE to run Need For Speed Carbon with Win 7 32 or 64 bit?

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   nfsc_link.exe
  Application Version:   0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   453473a9
  Fault Module Name:   nfsc_link.exe
  Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:   453473a9
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   0032b46a
  OS Version:   6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   f8b4
  Additional Information 2:   f8b42271854b86faded02866216acaf7
  Additional Information 3:   96c1
  Additional Information 4:   96c1dd973a4a48c055b3cd40def4726f

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  C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txtIt works for me in win7 x64, just fine- absolutely no compat settings at all.

Although it refuses to use 1440x900, just like far too many other titles ( )

EDIT: it looks like a "LAUNCHER" program is crashing for you (nfsc_link.exe) as opposed to the actual game executable (nfsc.exe).