Application Details:
| Version: | current |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://world.needforspeed.com |
| Votes: | 4 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.3-staging |
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What works
Install okay
launch ok
What does not
Fail to download upgrade data
After failing, nothing happened when click "update"
Workarounds
What was not tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Every time it failed to download the upgrade data. Pop up a error message dialog after downloading a bit.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 01 2020 | 5.3-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Milan Suwala | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 8.x "Jessie" x86_64 | Jan 01 2015 | 1.7.29 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Scott Weldon | ||
| Show | Fedora 7 | Aug 04 2014 | 1.7.22 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Mikhail | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 16 "Petra" x86_64 | May 18 2014 | 1.7.18 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Scott Weldon | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 23 2013 | 1.6 | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 23458 | Need for Speed:World fails to download client | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 25658 | Need for Speed World won't start | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 25966 | Many games and applications crash on unimplemented function msvcp{80,90}.dll.??0?$basic_ifstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@XZ (AutoCAD 2009, QQBrowser 5.1, Total Annihilation, Need for Speed World, ICQ 7.4, Firefox 10, Flash Player 11) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27048 | need for speed world launcher has trouble downloading | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 27077 | Need for Speed World and ICQ 7.4 need msvcp90.dll.??0?$basic_ifstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@XZ (purist) | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 30175 | Ported Need For Speed World and it freezes after a race | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 34189 | Text labels show as transparent (through the window) and don't draw the application background properly in Need For Speed World Launcher | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 38355 | Need for Speed World freezes, starting the game | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
With a fresh Wine prefix, do:
winetricks d3dx9 dotnet20 ie7 glsl-enable gdiplus
Then install the game as normal. Nothing else should be required. Feel free to experiment, but if something breaks, be sure to try this before asking for help.
Thanks to Andrew Richards and Ursan Marius Bogdan for the gdiplus tip.The game update may fail, sometimes several times; simply click 'update' again to resume from where you left off, and it will eventually finish.
With recent versions of the NFS World launcher, clicking the update button has no effect. (This does not appear to be a problem with Wine; the same thing happens in Windows.) Closing and relaunching the game sometimes helps, but a more effective (and faster) way to work around this it to copy the game data over from a working Windows installation.
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by Ursan Marius Bogdan on Wednesday June 17th 2015, 13:06
"...After five years on the race track, Need for Speed World is about to run its last lap. The free-to-play PC action racer will be permanently shutting down its servers on July 14th 2015..."
world.needforspeed.com/news/article/52361
The same thing is confirmed on the EA site:
www.ea.com/1/service-updates
July 14th, 2015 -- Online Services Shutdown
Battlefield Play4Free
Battlefield Heroes
FIFA World
Need For Speed World
Have fun playing until then :)