Need For Speed High Stakes For Mac



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Cars in Need for Speed: High Stakes consist of various sports and supercars. Some also appear in Pro Cup and Pursuit variants, and most vehicles can be fitted with Upgrades to compete in Tournaments and Special Events. Additional cars were made available for regional Australian and Japanese releases. Need for Speed: High Stakes, known as Need for Speed: Road Challenge in Europe and South America, is a 1999 racing video game released by EA for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The career system of this entry consists of two modes: 'Tournament', straightforward series of races with certain cars; and 'Special Event', similar to.

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Need for Speed: High Stakes
Developers
Publishers
Release dates
WindowsSeptember 29, 1999
  • 2Essential improvements
  • 3Game data
  • 7Network
  • 8Issues fixed
  • 9Other information

Warnings

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SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
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The Need for Speed1994
Need for Speed II1997
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (series)
Need for Speed: High Stakes1999
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed2000
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Need for Speed: Carbon2006
Need for Speed: ProStreet2007
Need for Speed: Undercover2008
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Need for Speed: World2010
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Key points

DirectX (when modified to recognize modern graphics cards, see Issues fixed) and Glide renderers give equal graphical quality.
The game is unplayable without patches on new systems. See Essential improvements.
Released as Need for Speed: Road Challenge in Europe, Need for Speed: Brennender Asphalt in Germany, Over Drivin' IV in Japan and Need for Speed : Conduite en état de liberté in France.

General information

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Availability[edit]

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements[edit]

Need For Speed 4 Modern Patch[edit]

  • Download: http://veg.by/en/projects/nfs4/

Change resolution and refresh rate under ./drivers/nglide/thrash.ini

Need for Speed: High Stakes Stock Pack (SP) and Expansion Pack (EP)[edit]

  • Guide and download: http://www.hsscoring.com/HSGuide/

The Stock Pack is designed to improve the Single-Player experience in High Stakes, patching the game to the final version, fixing various bugs discovered since the game's support period ended and adding compatibility with modern graphics cards.

The Expansion Pack is designed to improve the Multiplayer experience, with all of the improvements in the Stock Pack as well as adding support for the modern Online Multiplayer service made for the game and more cars and tracks used on that service on a regular basis.

Patches[edit]

Patch 4.50 (Internet Beta Test Patch) updates the game to the latest version.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows <path-to-game>SaveData[Note 2]

Save game data location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows <path-to-game>SaveData[Note 2]

Video settings[edit]

General video settings
Advanced video settings
Graphics featureStateNotes
Widescreen resolution Use Need for Speed High Stakes Widescreen Fix. Main menus are locked at 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)'Narrow' and 'Wide' options available in the 'View Angle' setting in the Basic Graphics menu. Widescreen option in the same menu can widen the horizontal FOV further, though narrows the vertical FOV.
WindowedSee the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowedSee the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)Game will accept settings forced in graphics card configuration panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)Triple Buffering only.
60 FPS
120+ FPS64 fps cap

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouseStateNotes
RemappingMost keys for both players are rebindable, however some (Such as Pause and Screenshot) are locked and cannot be rebound.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller supportThe game supports all functionality of DirectInput compatible controllers, however it assumes a Racing Wheel with digital pedals will be used.
Full controller supportControllers cannot be used to navigate menus.
Controller remappingGamepads require their buttons to be rebound to functions manually for the best effect. Controller key bindings overwrite Keyboard ones and are lost if the game is started without a controller connected.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedbackTo enable Force Feedback on an XInput controller (Like the Xbox 360 Controller), see XInput force feedback vibration in DirectInput games.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Mouse support is limited only to navigating menus.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings
Audio featureStateNotes
Separate volume controlsMenu Music, Race Music, Effects, Engine and Speech sliders available.
Surround soundStereo, Mono and DS3D/EAX.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX supportEAX.[3]

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

TypeNativePlayersNotes
Local play2 Versus, Co-op
Co-op is Hot Pursuit mode only.
LAN play8 Versus, Co-op
Co-op is Hot Pursuit mode only.
Online play8 Versus, Co-op
Connect as if connecting to a LAN game. Co-op is Hot Pursuit mode only.

Connection types

TypeNativeNotes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

ProtocolPort(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP1030
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed[edit]

A Standard installation of the High Stakes Stock Pack fixes all of the known bugs in the game. See above. Individual fixes are given below for convenience.

1 MB RAM Bug (XP, Later)[edit]

When running the game on Windows XP or later, the game gives a 1MB of RAM error and does not save progress or settings.

Install 1MB Error Patch[citation needed]
  1. Download and start Installation of the High Stakes Stock Pack
  2. Ensure 'Mercury / 1Mbyte Error Patch' is selected on the Choose Components screen.
  3. Finish Installation
  4. Run the game.

Crash on Start Issue (Vista, Later)[edit]

When running the game on Windows Vista or later, the game refuses to start, giving an Invalid Argument exception.

Install NFS:HS Stock Pack[citation needed]
  1. Download and start Installation of the High Stakes Stock Pack
  2. Ensure 'EA's 4.50 Patch', 'Vista, Win7 Tweaks' and 'NFS HS Starter' are selected on the Choose Components screen.
  3. Finish Installation
  4. Run the game.
Start game with -PatchRestart switch[citation needed]
  1. Create a (or modify an existing) Shortcut to the game EXE and add -PatchRestart to the end of the Target.
  2. Run the game using that Shortcut.
Start game using PatchNFS.exe[citation needed]

Run the game from <path-to-game>PatchNFS.exe.

Direct3D doesn't appear in the 3DSetup tool[edit]

When configuring 3D acceleration using the 3DSetup tool, only Software Renderer appears in the list.

Install New 3DSetup[citation needed]
  1. Download and start Installation of the High Stakes Stock Pack
  2. Ensure 'New 3D-Setup' is selected on the Choose Components screen.
  3. Finish Installation
Direct3D should now be in the list of renderers.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specsSupportedNotes
Direct3D6.1
Glidenative support
Software renderer
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System requirements[edit]

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)9x, NT, 20009x, NT, 2000
Processor (CPU)Intel Pentium 200 MHz Intel Pentium 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)32 MB64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)50 MB350 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible
8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)100% DirectX 6.1+ Compatible100% DirectX 6.1+ Compatible

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.02.1When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
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References

  1. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. Recommendations for Gamers -- Soundblaster.com
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Finaly!!! Released!!!
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