Need for Speed II

What works

Almost Everything (Single player race/tournament/knockout, Two players race/tournaments/knockout, Music, Videos, SFX, Menus)

I've also tested the 3dfx version using the dgVoodoo Wrapper. In DX7 mode, there are some graphical gliches (problems with texture transparency) while in DX9 mode, everything works perfectly, except fog.

What does not

Sometimes the game crashes while loading a track.

That doesn't happens in 3dfx mode.

Workarounds

What was not tested

TCP/IP Multiplayer, Modem Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Just a heads-up that you can natively install this game on Linux.

It's recommended to use this version instead of WINE in order to avoid incompatibilities, performance issues, headaches and benefit from improvements like better multiplayer and gamepad support.

You can find the source code, along with detailed instructions on how to install it on the project's GitHub page.

Note 1: It will require the original game's data files in order to be able to launch the game.

Note 2: This port will only work for the NFS 2 SE version and is hardcoded to always use 3dfx.

How to Install

 1. Change Windows version in winecfg to Windows 95/98 (installation crashes with 2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000) 

 2.  Go to Drivers tab and add drive D. Redirect the drive to path where your CD is mounted, for example: /media/Nfsiise/

 3. Install by wine ./SETUP/ENGLISH/SETUP.EXE and not by AUTORUN.EXE

 4.  Case occurs the message Hardware not detected, ignore and press ok until the installation continues normally.

How to Play

 1. Change back Windows version to XP

 2. Download fix utility from HERE

 3. Run the fix on game directory: $ wine pe.exe nfs2sen.exe

 4. Install schedtool (read "Freezing/crashing" note)

 5. Run NFS2 by: $ schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine nfs2sen.exe

 6. Ignore message Your hard drive has less than 1MB free space case occurs.

 7. Enjoy!

 Install with: # apt-get install schedtool if you use Ubuntu, or # pacman -S schedtool if you use Arch Linux

Or:

$ wget http://freequaos.host.sk/schedtool/schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2
$ tar xf schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2
$ cd schedt*
$ sudo make install

run nfs by:
$ schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine nfs2sen.exe

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/NFS2/

pe.exe

$ wine pe.exe nfs2sen.exe

The glide version needs a Wrapper in order to work, and updated nfs2sea.exe (found HERE).

I'm using dgVoodo with this configuration:

RenderAPI: Direct3D9
Display Driver: Direct3D9 HAL
Screen Mode: windowed mode
D3D Textures bit depth: 32 bits
texture options: autogenerate mipmaps
LFB access: Enable FSB access (use hardware cache buffers when poss, use fastwrite for unmatching formats)
ColorKeying Method: Native
Texture Mem Size: 65536KB
Resolution: 1024x768
Gamma Correction: 100%
Miscellaneeous: force triple buferring, use hardware vertex buffers, enable glide-gammaramp

Note: Full screen mode does not work for me with dgvoodo, but windowed mode with the display's resolution, shows the game in fullscreen.