Need For Speed Pro Street

[Gandalf the Yellow]

well i got it the other day.

seen many videos and stuff of it and gameplay looks waaay better than the more recent need for speed series (carbon, most wanted etc)

at least they got the physics tweaked and different driving simulations so for a recent NFS i think its pretty good.

longly waited but can't play it on my pc... bit of a bitch really, didn't think it was such a demanding game.

im getting lag in gameplay but settings have been altered from lowest to highest, still the same effect.. which i find strange.. i was hoping it was something to do with the direct x that i recently installed (9.0c) or maybe the catalyst driver im running (which i've updated to 7.11, then changed back to 6.14 when i found no improvement)

any ideas?

my system runs on:

win xp pro 32bit

amd athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.4ghz

corsair ddr 1gb

asus radeon x800xt pe agp

its not the most recent system but its a respectable spec, my brother can play it on his old prescott P4 2.8ghz/radeon 9800xt with mid-low settings.

come on forum gamers/geeks give me a hand.

Steve

[*OnzaMike*]

its crap. i purchased it the day it came out, i cant play it i need a new graphics card its extremely demanding game. Gave it to a family member who has real high spec system running twin graphics cards bah bah and it plays but he still has to turn the 'smoke' detail off.

loads of children will be dissapointed this christmas unless they get it on 360 or what not.

[ZeroMatt]

Well seems you meet all the minimum system requirements, tried updating driver for the card?

[Luke Drewery]

well i got it the other day.

seen many videos and stuff of it and gameplay looks waaay better than the more recent need for speed series (carbon, most wanted etc)

at least they got the physics tweaked and different driving simulations so for a recent NFS i think its pretty good.

longly waited but can't play it on my pc... bit of a bitch really, didn't think it was such a demanding game.

im getting lag in gameplay but settings have been altered from lowest to highest, still the same effect.. which i find strange.. i was hoping it was something to do with the direct x that i recently installed (9.0c) or maybe the catalyst driver im running (which i've updated to 7.11, then changed back to 6.14 when i found no improvement)

any ideas?

my system runs on:

win xp pro 32bit

amd athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.4ghz

corsair ddr 1gb

asus radeon x800xt pe agp

its not the most recent system but its a respectable spec, my brother can play it on his old prescott P4 2.8ghz/radeon 9800xt with mid-low settings.

come on forum gamers/geeks give me a hand.

Steve

Well seems you meet all the minimum system requirements, tried updating driver for the card?

I would recommend upgrading your graphics card and if you can stretch to it another gig of ram to lower loading times. Shouldnt cost much, you can get something like a 7600gt for not a lot of money these days and it should run it ok. But as zeromatt says try changing around your drivers first and see if it makes a difference. But to be honest to run this game on decent settings you need a good pc, dual or quad core processor, high end nvidia 8 series or ATI card etc. I have an amd athlonx64 3800 dual core overclocked to 2.5ghz and an nvidia 8500gt with 2gb of ocz 800mhz ram and I dont hold out muchy hope in playing it.

However I am planning to build myself a mint gaming pc soon to run crysis, need for speed pro street and others on good settings so it should be all good .

Lol and I agree with OnzaMike, many people are gonna think these new dx10 games are shit cos their pc cant handle it, you can see why console gaming is more popular.

Edited November 27, 2007 by Luke Drewery

[El Cristoff]

Our teacher at college said he could just about run it on;

Asus crosshair

AMD quad core processor (running at 3.2 ghz, overclocked to preform at 3.9ghz)

Twin 7800's

2Gb ram

[ZeroMatt]

Is this game dx 10 as well?

[Dan Campbell]

i've got it and it runs well for 25 minutes then my pc crashes, which seems to be some audio related problem aparently. I get the feeling not only is it graphically intensive it's also a wee bit buggy.

[Greetings]

Meh, I don't quite understand this either. I've got a completely opposite problem. While Carbon didn't want to run smoothly even on the lowest details and lowest res, Pro Street runs smoothly on highest details and 1280x800 res. I think it could be something to do with it being optimized for Vista and newer graphics cards?

Rather a good game though.

Edit: that's on a X2 6000+, 3gb 667mhz memory and 8600GT card. You don't need a quad core with SLI graphics for it to run.

Edited November 27, 2007 by Inur

[Krisboats]

Meh, I don't quite understand this either. I've got a completely opposite problem. While Carbon didn't want to run smoothly even on the lowest details and lowest res, Pro Street runs smoothly on highest details and 1280x800 res. I think it could be something to do with it being optimized for Vista and newer graphics cards?

Rather a good game though.

Edit: that's on a X2 6000+, 3gb 667mhz memory and 8600GT card. You don't need a quad core with SLI graphics for it to run.

Yeah, apparantly its a bitch to play it on older hardware, but a core2duo 2gb of ram and something faster than a 7800gt should manage it alright.

[poopipe]

you can see why console gaming is more popular.

yeah, you don't have to read the back of the box to find out whether it'll work or not.

(no offence to the chap having the problems )...

minimum spec means exactly that - turn everything off and run at 640x480 and you should be fine with a minimum spec machine - if you want anything more than that buy new hardware.

[_Owen.]

Got it for xbox 360 and its bloody awsome! screw you pc nerds

That was a joke before someone bites my head off

[Krisboats]

The problem with games like this is they're designed for consoles, then someone like EA decides to make it available for the pc as well, so they get some absolute tit to optimize it so badly it barely runs at all.

A large majority of games still have large bugs in them... my colin mcrae dirt for the pc tells me i can go on xbox live with it

[Fixed Pants™]

It works... f**king having a laugh with the lowest graphics though? Reminds me of Destruction Derby on Psf**king one.

This game better be good.

EDIT: This might be a bit quick, but f**king hell this is shit.

Edited November 27, 2007 by Fat Pants

[strat-trials]

All you people with 8600's should think about your cards if you want to run it. An 8800 offers much more performance and isn't too pricey as far as gfx cards go. A lot of the ATI x1950 models will run games faster than the 8600's, they are just a little too cut down.

2 GB of ram is all that is needed to run it in XP, any more and you'll experience stability issues (XP suffers). And make sure if running in dual channel mode that your memory timings are the same (that the sticks of ram are a matched pair).

Processor, most dual cores should handle it. I changed from an AMD 3500 to my dual core 3800 and there was a notable difference. (if you have a dual core processor from AMD make sure that you have the dual core optimiser installed, http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Techni...71_9706,00.html )

To put it in perspective, my pc (Athlon 64 x2 3800, 2 gb ram, ATI X1900 XTX runs it perfectly well at 1440x900 with high settings (34fps steady). Also runs UT3 and COD4(COD4 on full settings).

Will be changing to a quad core and dx10 soon though so may advertise my old pc on here if there were any interest?!

Tom

[Nick Garland]

Get a 360 No need to upgrade it then