Application Details:
| Version: | Game |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 12 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.16-staging |
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What works
- Installing the game
- adjusting settings (except for video settings)
- game play with 1024 x 864 resolution and low settings (just to be safe)
What does not
Adjusting screen resolution still crashes the game but the setting is saved.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Online game mode.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
My OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed with openSUSE 11.4 as base, x86_64 Gpu: Nvidia 9400GT, 280.13 nvidia driver Tweaks used: directx9 (the overkill option) made the game work and vcrun 2005(just in case but i don`t think that it was needed).
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 11.x "Bullseye" x86_64 | Sep 01 2021 | 6.16-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | David García | |
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 15 2020 | 5.0.3 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | User | |
| Show | macOS 10.14 "Mojave" | Jul 06 2020 | 5.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | SP | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | May 11 2020 | 5.5 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Marcelo Zapatta | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 15 2019 | 4.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | User |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 3945 | NFS: MW Demo crash | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 4746 | Need For Speed: Most Wanted: Pixel shader debugstr overflow | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 5401 | Cannot install The Need for Speed Most Wanted Demo | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 6183 | NFS MW crashed when sound is on in winecfg | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6932 | Textures in NFS: Most Wanted are semi-transparent | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6997 | NFS Most Wanted: Execution of glDrawArrays (drawStridedFast) takes 1 second + | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 7987 | NFS: Most Wanted crashes in light | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8566 | Need for Speed Most Wanted patch 1.3 won't install. | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 9359 | Need for Speed Most Wanted crahshes frequently | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 9801 | NFS Most Wanted crashes at start | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 10501 | NFSU2 crashes out when loading a level | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10841 | Restore display resolution when focus is lost or on exit | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 13056 | Need For Speed Most Wanted Black-Edition fails to install | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 18477 | Need For Speed Most Wanted crashes after accepting video settings changes | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 21476 | Need for Speed Most Wanted - "unload the debugger and try again" | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 21876 | Demo Need for Speed Underground 1 crashes | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 22459 | NFSMW - Only black screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 22742 | System cursor doesn't disappear when game starts | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 25857 | Multiple games (Stronghold 2, Need for Speed: Carbon demo, Purge) fail to draw correctly because of ID3DXEffectImpl_*Pass calls | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 27203 | EAGL3 Engine: Does not remove splash image after intro movies, game not displayed correctly. Unusable. | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
| 33296 | Multiple games have delayed key response when under high CPU load (NFS: Most Wanted (2005), NFS: Hot Pursuit (2010), Project Cars) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 34073 | Need For Speed Most Wanted: buffered keys | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
1. Go to AutoRun folder and open 'autorun.cfg' file.
2. Edit row 'DirectXVersion=9.0c' to 'DirectXVersion=0'
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