Need For Speed: World

What works

Install

Launcher

Download game (kinda, see below)

What does not

Launcher news feed

Game loading

Workarounds

What was not tested

Anything past game loading

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Rated Bronze because I believe the main problem to be the fact that I am running on a laptop, with integrated graphics, so the game doesn't have enough power to run properly. Will test again on my desktop shortly to make sure. As stated in the note, the download fails multiple times, and the update button doesn't work (problem on Windows too). Restarted launcher multiple times and download eventually finished.

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.

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.