Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

This is the boxed retail version of the game. An auto-updater is available, but the update servers are no longer online.

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Test Results

Old test results

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What works

Tries to boot, screen goes black, resolution changes, then crash.

What does not

Pretty much the whole thing.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

Additional Comments

Probably the funnest version of Need for Speed ever. Great split screen mode.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Sep 23 2021	6.0.1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Hernandi F. Krammes F.
Show	openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)	Jun 09 2017	2.6	N/A	Yes	No	Platinum	dave
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Feb 14 2017	2.1	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	LoneVVolf
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 8.x "Jessie" x86_64	Oct 29 2014	1.7.29	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Scott Weldon
Show	Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Nov 13 2012	1.5.17	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Andrey Gusev

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
7115	Need for Speed III installer fails in Win9X mode, reporting "Could not get 'HardWareKey' value" (active PnP device keys in 'HKEY_DYN_DATA\\Config Manager\\Enum' missing)	STAGED		View
9221	Force Feedback doesn't work but does after little source modification	NEW		View

Installation

For best results, try using one of the WINE/distribution combinations listed as working above.
Run winecfg and set Windows Version to Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME.
Also, you may want to check "Emulate a virtual desktop" on the Graphics tab if you have trouble with the game not exiting nicely.
Run wine 'D:\setup\english\setup.exe', replacing 'D:\' with the letter of your CD drive, and 'english' with 'spanish' if you want to run the Spanish version.
Follow the installation instructions on-screen. There will be a few errors, but just click 'Ok' and keep going. Don't try to register at the end.
In a console, change to the NFS3 installation directory by typing something like cd '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Need For Speed III'. Trying to run the game by clicking the icon, or from a different directory, will not work.
Run the game with wine nfs3.exe -d3d0.

3dfx HOWTO

To play the 3dfx version of this game, I recommend installing the glide wrapper available here: http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/

16-bit Code

This game contains 16-bit launcher code. To be able to run it, you must run the following as root:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/abi/ldt16

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