In a bout of nostalgia, and seeing as the game was now reasonably cheap on PC-DVD, I got myself a copy of EA’s 2012 (personal favourite) Need for Speed Most Wanted for PC. They didn’t port this title to PS4 of Xbox One.
Amazon provided prompt delivery in their usual style and I was up an running the following night with only one problem.
It was running terribly slowly on my 4K monitor using the not-so-high-end Nvidia GTX 960. The reason this was so was that the game had launched itself in 4K resolution with all the graphics settings jacked up to the max, and was running in a very large window as a sort of mock full-screen.
- I've installed NFS MW 2005, but unfortunately it's impossible to play because of weirdly flickering screen with randomly and quickly appearing and disappearing horizontal stripes. It's difficult to capture this screen state as taken screenshots don't showcase this issue, but here is a photo of it.
- I've recently got the game (Need for Speed Most Wanted) but I've kept on having the same problem. Window Mode to Fullscreen mode. It simply can't get into fullscreen mode with all the steps I've done, as I described further down. The game doesn't itself allow me to put it either into fulls.
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Not nice. I went into the game’s settings and set the resolution to 1920×1080, leaving graphics at max quality still and ended up with a tiny 1080p window in the corner of my screen. Grrr!
No option in settings to put this into fullscreen mode and scale it appropriately. Googling this led to an odd article from 2012: https://amittoor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/run-nfs-need-for-speed-most-wanted-in.html which suggested a registry edit which totally didn’t work, but it did trigger a memory I had of the graphics settings on my GPU.
Basically, I’ll put the steps down here for ya:
- Open nVidia control panel (or your GPU’s control panel)
- Expand the Display subtree and select Adjust desktop size and position
- Select the display you desire if using multiple displays.
- Select “Perform Scaling on GPU”
- Tick the “Override the scaling mode set by games and programs”
That should do the trick. It appears that EA programmed the game to always try to do scaling on the Display or in software, which probably made sense when the game was being built as home users probably wouldn’t have 4K or higher resolution displays.
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Nfs Most Wanted 2005 Full Screen Fixing
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Nfs Most Wanted 2005
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Nfs Most Wanted 2005 Full Screen Fix Windows 10
v1.1.0
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Description:
// this pack is a everyone of mod for blacklist #16 (Rog) . this pack have :
- Demo video (from Need for Speed: Most Wanted PS2 Demo , you can see Rog`s Car) !
- Tip Demo (from Need for Speed: Most Wanted PC Demo) it is a speedtrap Tutorial !
- Roger`s cars (blackedition & demo) tutorial create , save
- Rog`s tags (Demo Tags for Secondary logo) !
- Rog save (Pountiac GTO & Demo Mustang GT) !
- Rival Race #16 (Tutorial Race with Rog)
- Photo Finish Rival #16 (it`s from demo video , I create this photo finish with mspaint) !
- Demo Global Texture (this dds textures from Need for Speed: Most Wanted PC Demo) !
- (New!) Mustang`s sound (this sound from Need for Speed: Most Wanted PS2 Demo for mustang GT)
- (New!) Blacklist Texture with #16 Rog (Retexture Blackilst Texture in Safe house)
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Needs :
- Extra option Last version (Split screen for race with Rog)
- verble hack (Disable Hud , Because split screen`s Hud not fix)
- NFS TexEd Beta (Because This version cans replace all formats file & all Pixels size)
- NFS LangEd 0.5.0 (replace tip`s texts)
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Installation and usage:
1) Rog`s Video : you can use this video for your Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005 I recommended 'demo_intro_english_ntsc'
rename to 'attract_movie_english_ntsc'
2) Tip Speedtrap Rog : Open 'DYNTEX.BIN' with NFS TexEd replace on (TIP_X) & save , after open 'English.bin' with NFS LangEd and find 'TIP_X' and copy Tip text header and Descs
3) Rog save : open 'My Documents' , find 'NFS Most Wanted' . then Copy 'ROG' folder and paste on folder
4) Rog`s tags : you can use this tags for secondary logo all cars , I recommended use for Ford Mustang GT . open 'FrontB.lzc' and find secodary logo and replace .
5) Race with Rog : open txt file .
6) Photo Finish Rival #16 : open 'HUDTEXTURESPHOTOFINISH.BIN' and replace photo finish rival .
7) Demo Global Texture : you can see orginal Roger tags and other texture .
8) Mustang`s Sound : open 'SOUND' folder after open 'ENGINE' folder and copy GIN files
9) open 'CAREER_SAFEHOUSE.BIN' file . find ID number '47' and replace texture
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Credits:
Create pack by:
- Sobhan
Thanks to:
- nlgzrgn for Extra option and restore split screen from Need for Speed Most Wanted PS2 & X360 Platforms
- nfsu360 for NFS-TexEd v1.1 and NFS-LangEd v0.5
- code ripper for NFS Most Wanted Save Editor
- Microsoft Windows for mspaint v6.1
- Alexander Roshal for WinRAR v4.0
- EA Black Box for NFS Most Wanted 2005 , PC Demo , PS2 , PS2 Demo
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Bye !
Sobhan 2019
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