Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

What works

Everything. Using Kubuntu 6.10. But it's a little tricky to make it work.
First, don't run it from the icon in the desktop. You must open the console and type wine nfs3.exe in the directory it was installed.

Then, it will run smoothly from this moment on. The drawbacks: It's very slow and the mouse acts quirky, but it's even playable. As a matter of fact, there must be some adjustment to be done, so it runs in an acceptable speed.

What does not

So far, could not make it work in 3D hardware. Only the software renderer.

It's slow and the mouse behaves quirky.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Only for the speed and the mouse. The rest is playable. It even shows the movies.

1. For best results, try using one of the WINE/distribution combinations listed as working above.
   
2. Run winecfg and set Windows Version to Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME.
   
3. Also, you may want to check "Emulate a virtual desktop" on the Graphics tab if you have trouble with the game not exiting nicely.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
   
7. Run the game with wine nfs3.exe -d3d0.
   

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