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Need for Speed II

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This is the retail version of Need for Speed II

Application Details:

Version: Retail
License: Retail
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Votes: 0
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.1.11

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What works

all work

What does not

credits fast *Note from admin: not Platinum, changed your rating to Gold since it requires third party tools to work around on SMP systems and also needs native dlls for multiplayer.

Workarounds

What was not tested

nothing, multiplayer

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

winecfg set win 98 full install cd required

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowGentoo Linux x86_64Dec 25 20081.1.11Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowFedora 10Dec 14 20081.1.10Yes Yes NoGoldNSLW 
ShowMandriva 2008.1 SpringOct 19 20081.1.4No Not installable NoGarbageDaniel Uto 
CurrentUbuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 07 20081.0-rc4Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 11 20080.9.53.Yes No NoGarbageJeffZ 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
4066 Online Play Doesn't Work (DirectPlay) NEW View
11317 Need for Speed II Demo - hangs on smp machine NEW View

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HowTo / Notes

Warning: Owners of multi-core/hyperthreading / SMP systems beware
If you try to run this game on a system that has multiple cores or cpus it probably won't work. The game appears to suffer from some issues that manifest themselves when run on multiple cores. If you want this game to work well it appears you need a single cpu system or to be able to limit your system that way. schedtool is a program which will let you run wine on 1 cpu, eg. schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine nfsw.exe
Running the autorun may not work - you should run the setup program directly
How to Install and Play

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!
Glide Version
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.

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