Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

What works

Installer without any problems and changes.

Game Menus and Videos

Sound

Gameplay (including Network Play)

Joypad, (including ForceFeedback)

What does not

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Workarounds

What was not tested

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Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Graphics with all set to max works perfectly, a little bit choppy, but still playable. Setting all to low helps a little bit, but its never ideally smooth on my 7300GT 128MB DDR3 (athlon 2000+ 1.66GHz, 768MB RAM) (but i think that its related to sime internal timers and functions, because on brother windowsxp sp2, radeon 9600 PRO, athlon 2GHz, 512MB RAM it doesnt works really smooth). But im sure, that it was working smooth many years ago when i had windows and gf4mx440. so maybe its some regression in windows, or crap ATI(Windows) driver ? With newest nvidia beta drivers(169.04) and antyalaising(for my 7300GT it impact really much on performance) set to "set by application", quality to 'quality' its working mostly smooth. Im using 242 patch, and no-cd patch.

I copied whole CD to HD, edit /autorun/autorun.cfg and changed EReg=1 and IEVersion=4.0 to EReg=0 and IEVersion=  and then start setup.exe, with that installation goes smooth:).

 Starting: CD must be in drive and then started his AutoRun.exe. (or you can use nocd patcher, but avoid running NfsHP2.exe directly !)
 Game menu: Cars, menu tree in Hot Pursuit, Championship, etc. not shown:(
 Playing: Very smooth, with some graphics problems (no tires), Special Efects and World Detail work with any settings, but Car Detail must be on low (with any other whole car not shown in the game)
 Sound: Perfect with OSS or Alsa, but with emulation (if your card doesnt has hardware mixer, because alsa dmix really sucks)

 Some messages from console, when in menu:
 fixme:d3d_texture:IWineD3DBaseTextureImpl_ApplyStateChanges >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_VALUE (0x501) from glTexParameteri GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT ... @ basetexture.c / 463

 and when actually start some race and play it, constantly give this:
fixme:d3d:get_src_and_opr Unhandled texture argWINED3DTA_SPECULAR

Howto from test results by smoko