Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

What works

The installer, main menu, and options menu.

What does not

Nothing else.  Everything I clicked on forced the game to quit immediately.  I played in both a virtual and non virtual desktop.  Also, the game seemed to have performed fine but my CPU usage was maxed (2.4GHz Athlon 3800+)

Workarounds

What was not tested

I couldn't test game play.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I do have the updated version.

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