Need For Speed Most Wanted v1.3.iso

EA GAMES(tm) presents
Need for Speed(tm) Most Wanted

WHAT THIS FILE IS
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This file contains information that supplements the Manual. If you are
experiencing problems not covered in this README, please contact EA
Customer Support.

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control of Electronic Arts.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1. INSTALLATION
2. BASIC KEYBOARD CONTROLS
3. MANUAL ADDENDUM
4. TROUBLESHOOTING
5. ONLINE
6. LAN
7. CONTROLLER INFORMATION

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1. INSTALLATION

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Thank you for purchasing Need for Speed Most Wanted.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional,
or Windows XP Home operating system
Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent) CPU running at 1.4GHz or higher
32MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (Geforce2 MX or higher) using a
supported chipset (see below)
256 MB RAM
DirectX compatible sound card
3 GB of HD space
8X CD-ROM

To play online a network card is required for broadband connectivity

Installation Instructions:

Exit all applications. It is recommended that you do not run unnecessary
background applications when installing the game.

Insert Disc 1 into your computer's CD drive. The Autorun menu will
appear as soon as your disk drive recognizes the disk. Select Install to
Install the game. A prompt will appear to enter your install code.
Enter the install code and click on the Next button.

You will then get a menu asking to choose either a default install or
the advanced install (which allows you to specify an install
directory). Select Next and you will be prompted to register the game through
Electronic Registration. Select Register Now to register the game, or select
Register Later to continue with the installation.

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2. BASIC KEYBOARD CONTROLS

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The basic keyboard controls required to play the game are:

In Game Controls:

Steer Left Left Arrow
Steer Right Right Arrow
Throttle Up Arrow
Reverse Down Arrow
Shift Up Shift
Shift Down Left Ctrl
E-brake Space
Speedbreaker Right Ctrl
Nitrous Alt
Camera C
Look Back L
Enter Race / Shop Enter
World Map M
Read SMS Tab
Blacklist B
Reset Car R
Pause Esc

Menu Controls

Highlight Menu Items Up, Down, Left and Right Arrows
Cycle Choices / Move sliders Up, Down, Left and Right Arrows
Select / Go to next Screen ENTER or left mouse click on selection
Return to previous screen ESC
Take Screenshot F12
(Screenshots are saved to My Pictures in the My Documents directory)

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3. MANUAL ADDENDUM

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VIDEO CARD SUPPORT
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Although Direct3D is supported, this support is only officially
extended to certain 3D accelerator devices. The following major D3D
chipsets are supported.

ATI Radeon 7500
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9xxx series
ATI Radeon Xpress 200
ATI Radeon X300, X600, X700, X800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 2 (GTS, MX, Ultra/Ti)
NVIDIA GeForce 3 (Ti)
NVIDIA GeForce 4 (MX, Ti)
NVIDIA GeForce FX series
NVIDIA GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800, 7800
Intel 950/i915g
S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro

While Direct3D supports a wider variety of 3D accelerator devices, the
behavior of Need for Speed Most Wanted cannot be predicted in these
situations. In extreme cases, running Need for Speed Most Wanted with
a Direct3D device that is not officially supported can lead to an
unstable PC environment.

SOUND CARD SUPPORT
==================

Need for Speed Most Wanted supports DirectSound. If your sound card
driver does not support DirectSound you may experience choppy or
stuttering sound or sound that cuts in and out. If your sound card
driver does not support DirectSound, we recommend obtaining updated
drivers from your sound card manufacturer.


CD-ROM DRIVES and DVD DRIVES
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Need for Speed Most Wanted requires at minimum an 8x CD-ROM/DVD
drive. Disc 1 must be in the CD-ROM/DVD drive when you start the
game. If your system has more than one CD-ROM/DVD drive, be sure the game
disc is in the same drive from which you installed the game.


DEFAULT GRAPHICS SETTINGS
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The first time Need for Speed Most Wanted is run, a system check is
performed and default levels are set for the various graphics
settings. These default levels are set to provide the best game play
experience possible based on the hardware detected in your system.

These settings can be adjusted in the Video menu of the Options.

Resolution: Use the arrows to increase or decrease the game
resolution. Increasing the game’s resolution may slow down system
performance.

Level of Detail: Use the arrows beside the Level of Detail bar to
increase or decrease global graphics setting. Increasing the Detail
setting to high will improve the game’s graphics but may slow down system
performance.

Advanced Display Settings: Tweak individual graphics settings. (See
below.)

Default Settings: Reset your graphics settings to the default for your
hardware configuration.

Selecting Advanced Display Settings in the Video menu takes you to
the Advanced Display Settings menu. The following individual settings
are available to tweak to change the game’s graphics output and game
performance. Turning all the settings to on may slow down system
performance.

Full Screen Anti-Aliasing: Adjust slider to increase/decrease pixel smoothing.

Texture Filtering: Adjust the slider to increase/decrease the Quality of the textures.

Vsync: Updates the screen based on the refresh rate of your monitor.

World Level of Detail: Increase the amount of detail visible in world geometry.
Decreasing world geometry detail may increase overall system performance.

Road Reflection Detail: Increase or decrease reflections visible in the road.

Shadow Detail: Increase/decrease car shadow detail. Decreased shadow detail may improve
system performance.

Car Geometry Detail: Setting this to High increases geometry details
on the car.

Car Reflection Detail: Setting this to High increases the detail of
reflections visible on the car.

Car Reflection Update Rate: Increase or decrease how quickly reflections
are visible on the car update.

Rain Effect: Rain splatter effect on/off.

Over Bright: When on it increases brightness of bright areas in the game.

Visual Treatment: Increase or decrease the effect of the visual treatment in the game.

Not all graphic details are available for all video cards due to
hardware limitations.

ALIAS AND SAVE LOAD
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If you are in the Main Menu and you want to create a new Alias, select Create from the Alias Manager Menu.

When you start a new Alias, you will not have any of the
progress (unlocked cars, parts, or progress through Career Mode)
that you had in your old Alias (You can always log back in under
your original Alias if you want to go back).

Manual Saves: Your game can be manually saved by accessing the Alias
Manager Menu and selecting Save.

NOTE:
Saving your Alias saves your game progress. When you make a save game,
you are saving your progress in Career Mode, the number of cars,
car upgrades, and tracks you have unlocked, and any modifications you
have made to your cars.

The final game save directory is located at:
Documents and SettingsPC Login IDMy DocumentsNFS Most Wanted

Substitute your actual Login ID for the PC Login ID mentioned above.


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4. TROUBLESHOOTING

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CD AUTOPLAY FEATURE
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Inserting the game CD into your CD-ROM drive and then immediately
running the game either from the Windows Start menu or by
double-clicking the game's Desktop icon may cause a conflict with the
CD-ROM's AutoPlay feature. The easiest way to avoid this potential
conflict is to always wait a few moments after inserting the CD to
allow the AutoPlay feature to run the game.


EJECTING THE GAME CD
====================
Never eject the game CD when the game is running. Failure to do so
can result in serious problems, including being unable to continue the
game.


FAST USER SWITCHING
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You will not be able to run two versions of the game using two different
windows accounts via the fast user switching (windows key + L).


DEVICE DRIVERS
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It is highly recommended that the latest versions of all device
drivers (i.e. video and sound card drivers) be obtained and installed.
Please consult your card manufacturer for their newest drivers. Also,
keep in mind that video chip manufacturers sometimes provide drivers
in addition to the card manufacturer.

If you are experiencing issues with an unstable PC environment please
make sure your Motherboard drivers (AGP, miniport) are up to date. For
further information please contact your Motherboard manufacturer.

VIDEO & GRAPHICS PROBLEMS
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If you are experiencing performance problems on the default graphics
settings, try lowering some of the settings or the game resolution.

This game requires DirectX 9.0c
It is available for download by going to:

www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/

Graphic Cards: Graphical settings and features available in-game are
dependant on Graphics Card capabilities. Settings not supported by your
Graphics Card hardware are disabled in the Options Menu to prevent
adverse effects on the game and your computer.

NVIDIA Cards: All supported NVIDIA cards were tested using ForceWare
driver version 81.84 beta (Win2k/XP). It is highly
recommended this driver or a more recent version be used when running
Need for Speed Most Wanted.

Known Issues:

ATI Cards: All supported ATI cards were tested using Catalyst driver
version 5.10 (Win2k/XP). It is highly recommended
this driver or a more recent version be used when running
Need for Speed Most Wanted.

Known Issues: Currently there is a problem with the anti-aliasing
functions in Need for Speed Most Wanted and drivers older
than Catalyst 4.10. It is highly recommended this driver or a more
recent version be used.


BACKGROUND PROGRAMS
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Avoid running other programs in the background.

Programs starting up automatically can cause Need for Speed
Most Wanted to lose control of the screen and keyboard, possibly
causing an unstable PC environment. We strongly recommend that you
shut down or suspend applications that start up automatically or
programs that automatically run other applications at specified times
before running Need for Speed Most Wanted. These include, but are not
limited to:
- Windows System Agent
- Windows Task Scheduler
- Windows "Disk Cleanup" utilities

Similarly, message boxes and dialog boxes from other programs or from
Windows itself can also cause Need for Speed Most Wanted to lose
control of the screen and keyboard, possibly causing an unstable PC
environment. We strongly recommend that you shut down all other
applications before running Need for Speed Most Wanted. These
include, but are not limited to:
- Email programs
- Calendar, appointment, or contact applications
- Network or Internet chat programs
- Automatic Update on Anti Virus software

Also, connections to/from non-dedicated servers can be disrupted when
background programs or screen-savers launch. We recommend that you shut
down other applications (including virus scanners) and run Need for Speed
Most Wanted by itself whenever possible.


POWER MANAGEMENT SUSPEND/SLEEP MODES
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Systems (i.e. laptops or other portables) that automatically power
down into "sleep" or "suspended" modes can cause Need for Speed
Most Wanted to lose control of the screen and keyboard, possibly
causing an unstable PC environment. We strongly recommend that you
disable these features before running Need for Speed Most Wanted.


WINDOWS VIRTUAL MEMORY ISSUES WITH 256MB RAM
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If you experience any Virtual Memory issues while running the game, try increasing
the page file size on your hard drive. Please consult the Microsoft Windows help
pages to determine how to tweak your virtual memory settings.

CHOPPY PLAYBACK DURING VIDEO SEQUENCES
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If you experience choppy playback during video sequences, try increasing
the page file size on your hard drive. Please consult the Microsoft Windows help
pages to determine how to tweak your virtual memory settings.

SAFE MODE
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The safe mode option can be found under the game directory in the Start Menu. If this
option does not appear, go to www.microsoft.com/downloads and install the .NET Framework.
Then re-install the game.


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5. ONLINE PLAY

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To avoid poor performance during Internet play, be sure that you close
any file sharing, streaming audio, or chat programs prior to entering
gameplay. These applications can monopolize your connection’s bandwidth,
causing lag or other undesirable effects.

Need for Speed Most Wanted uses the following TCP and UDP port(s) for
Internet play:

TCP ports: 80, 13505, 30900-30999
UDP port addresses: 3658-3658

Please consult your router or personal firewall documentation for information
on how to allow game related traffic on these ports. If you are attempting to
play on a corporate Internet connection, contact your network administrator.

NOTE: Need for Speed Most Wanted supports only broadband connections
for online play. When logging in to play Online you are logging into
the EA.com servers. If you already have one, you may use your existing
online EA.com account to play or you can create a new one.

Setting up an account: An EA online account is required for online play. At
the account log-in screen choose Create New EA online account . You will be
taken to menus where you enter account information and choose your
online user name.

NOTE: If your existing EA online account contains a space, you won’t be able
to use it due to a limitation in the game.

Personas: Persona's are part of your EA online account and are used
for any EA online product you play. Deleting a persona that has been used in
other EA Products will also delete the persona and all associated
stats/rewards earned with that persona across all EA products.


Online Main Menu
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Quick Race: Jump right into an existing ranked or standard match.

Create Game: Customize your game preferences and link up with someone with a similar alias.

Select Car: Switch cars for the next race.

Rankings: View your personal statistics, get the overall stats, or find out who the online leaders are.

News: Catch up on the latest Need for Speed Most Wanted news.

EA Terms & Conditions: View the online terms and conditions.


The Online Lobby

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The Online Lobby is where all created games will be displayed. Select
a game from the list to join that game.

The games list will be fluctuating all the time as new games are create
and players join those games. To keep the list of games as recent as
possible click the refresh button.

Performance Matching ensures that no matter what car others have selected they will all equal the same performance. This is an option during the game setu