EA Games Need For Speed XIII releasing in 2009

The game Need For Speed has brought a revolution in gaming from the very first game of its series. Thanks to EA Games.

Need For Speed XIII the thirteenth in its series releasing in 2009. The release date is not yet announced but the game is expected to release this year. It is well known for all the gamers that the most successful out of all the games in the series Need For Speed of EA Games is Need For Speed Most Wanted. Need For Speed Most Wanted was so successful that it has redefined the racing games. The concept was new enough and the game play is too good to be forgotten and would be remembered for ever.

Whats so cool about Need For Speed Most Wanted? Technical details and the game play are known for all the gamers. What about the luck factor? Yes Need For Speed Most wanted is lucky enough to be such a big hit. The key is that it is the 9th game in its series. The number 9 is considered to be very lucky in many countries.

After this NFSMW, there are three more games released NFS Carbon, NFS Prostreet, NFS Undercover. But none of these, atleast for now, is so cool as NFSMW. May be the luck turns to NFS Undercover in the future.

But let us hope that Need For Speed XIII is going to be the best of all the games in its series. Also, there must be whole new features for the game to make it a big success. The gamers have had enough with the previous concepts in NFSMW and NFS Undercover. Its time for some new challenges.

Also, the game should also needs to have some technical advantages like running in reasonable PCs instead of demanding the latest in its time of release.

Let us hope the Minimum System Requirements if not more.

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista latest Service Pack
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz or AMD equivalent
RAM: 2 GB or 1GB with 1GB Video Card RAM
Graphic Card: nVIDIA GeForce 6500 or ATI Radeon 9500

But what is more important is the graphical appearance of the game which should be taken care of when designing the game. The problem with NFS Undercover was that the game was not appearing cool even at a resolution of 1024x768x32 at graphical settings with all high detail. The game appears best when there is no areas where the screen shows some pixel form of edges.

The key is will the 13th beat the 9th in the Need For Speed Series of EA Games. Await the Game NFS XIII.

World and Car Graphic Preferences and Properties in NFS Undercover

Need For Speed Undercover might have some complex programming logic which might be making it little laggy even in PCs with very good configuration. There is a need for a new patch which may take care of some logics and bugs. A freely downloadable patch for NFSU would make it much interesting to play. The Patch Download for NFS Undercover can be expected very soon as there are talks on current works on Patch building for NFSU.

Atleast for now, it is very much necessary to understand the settings which could help in improving the performance of the game NFSU.

NFS Undercover has the good level of each option relating the Graphics of the Game which effect the normal performance of the game very greatly.

The Car detail should be least concerned in the game NFSU. The world is the factor is the one which should be concerned about. The player while playing the game, always looks at the edges of the roads, the far buildings and the items beside the road. The player rarely tends to look at the car he is driving. It is just a piece of the screen hanging in the center. In the game, hardly there comes a situation where the player needs to look at his car.

Also, the higher car detail does not make it realistic, rather it will look much like a toy piece which is intended to be fixed to the screen and the rest of the world is moving. I mean higher car detail makes it more unrealistic than the low car detail option.

As far as the World Detail is concerned in NFSU, it is better to have it at normal levels or it can be higher too. The world detail appears to take lesser Graphic processing than the car detail. Better to raise the World Detail. World Detail is the key for the appearance.

Coming to the Shadow option. Shadow helps in making the look realistic as normal. But surely the shadows option will take a good amount of Graphic Processing Capabilities.

All these options in NFS Undercover can show the best only if the resolution is set at a very good level. Like 1024x768 which can be good enough for a 15 inch Monitor.

A 1GB nVIDIA 8500GT Graphic Card appears to be helpless with a normal PC with debatable Processor Configuration. So, the game NFSU not only needs a good Graphics Processor, but there is more to do for the processor about the game logic in Undercover version.

Solution for Need For Speed Undercover Crash Problem

There are reports that the game Need For Speed Undercover is crashing frequently at introduction video at the spot where the Helicopters chase the Car.

A similar kind of problem is seen in the case of the game Prince of Persia Warrior Within. So the solution for that game may also solve the problem of this game Need For Speed Undercover. The Solution for that game Prince of Persia Warrior Within is given by a friend in a forum on fileforums website.

The Solution for the game Prince of Persia Warrior Within was to move a video file to another location which was corrupted or damaged someway leading to a crash to windows when ever the game was run. So when the game tries to access that moved file. It wont be accessible in that location so the game skips that video segment. Similar kind of problem may be occurring in the game Need For Speed Undercover. Just try removing the introduction video files by moving to to another location. This may solve the problem.

Another solution may be to remove any previous profile aliases which may also affect the game and leading to crashes in Need For Speed Undercover.

Many games like these may be crashing because of the problems as simple as these. So, it is better to be patient to solve the problem taking the help of the web.

In most of the cases, when ever there is a crash like this, there would be an error report showing the information of any file which is responsible for the crash. These crashes can be solved just by replacing the files with new ones in the cases where the files are .dll files. If the files are .exe files, it is better to re-install the application.

NFS Undercover Crash Problems and Lag in the game

NFS Udercover users report problems like frequent crashes and lag. Many users are reporting the some error in forums too. Some experienced the crash problems after re-installation. The NFSU crashes when it starts to load the video, when it is re-installed. This might be related to the saved profiles of NFSU, since this is the time when the saved profiles in the My Documents are to be loaded. The saved profile may appear corrupted to the new installation of NFSU when it tries to load the profiles. The game may face the problem with the previous saved profile. Or this may not affect the game, there should be some other problem.

Also, the game NFSU appears to be programmed with too complex logic or something like that. This conclusion is drawn because, even the PC which are full-filled the minimum requirements of the game NFSU appear to be lagging while in the game. Also, the PC with much better configuration are also facing the same problem of lag in the game. Not only this, but the game runs quite normally for sometime and suddenly sticks to a particular position at a particular area in the map to load the environment and world around, then the game resumes normally. Some thing like a Page Fault occurs. This type of problem can be associated with any of the components of the PC like RAM, Processor, GPU, Hard Disk too.

The lag in the game appears to be least concerned with the settings of the game, especially the Graphic Options. The game shows almost same lag when the game is set to least graphic details and highest graphic details.

Some of the reports also say, that all the cars are not unlocked even after the completion of 100% profile. This may be due to the reason that the game also has some cars to be unlocked after giving the cheat codes. Like some of the cars showing in the cars folder are spare for the cheats of NFSU.

NFS Undercover Cheats and Trainers How to Run

What are Trainers for NFS Undercover

Trainers are the applications to increase the speed, acceleration and to do many things in the game NFS Undercover. Trainers can be run after starting the game NFS Undercover which will allow the players to use the hot keys to perform special abilities. The special abilities include jumping in the game NFS Undercover. Teleporting the car to any point in the map. Infinite acceleration.

How to Run Trainers in NFS Undercover

Just download the trainer application packages by searching in Google. The Package should contain the application and a text or any informative file which will describe the hot keys and give other information on the Trainer. The following video shows the features of the Trainer used.

The Trainer for NFS Undercover, since NFS Undercover has released recently, there will be more number of trainer available with time. The features of the Trainers may also change with Trainer to Trainer.

It is always better to get the best from the game without using any Trainers or Cheats. Trainers or Cheats once used will make the players lose their interest in that game. So, it is better to complete the Profiles of the game NFS Undercover till 100% and then the Trainers will be adding to the game's interest.

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NFS Undercover on 64bit XP AMD64 and nVIDIA GeForce

NFSU System Requirements:

NFS Undercover is the Latest Version of the NFS games. As given in the system requirements, it needs a processor of speed better than 3.0GHz, RAM more than 512 MB, and a Graphic Card.

NFSU Performance on AMD64

The game NFS Undercover is working just normal on

AMD64 Athlon 3000+ 1.8GHz,
Asus M2N MX,
1 GB DDR2 RAM,
nVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 1GB 64bit Drivers
Win XP 64bit,
and DirectX 9.0c,
SATA HDD.

when the settings of the game are set to all low and some configuration variables to off, Resolution 800x600. Also all the other processes running on the OS are stopped. On overall review, the NFS Undercover performance can be stated as running slower on the configuration shown above. NFS Undercover definitely needs better requirements than NFS Pro Street. NFS Undercover is taking around 512MB of memory usage as shown in the Task Manager of WinXP.

The Game Performance can improved to a greater extent when the processor or the RAM or both are upgraded.

NFSU View

NFS Undercover is showing some similarities with the game NFS Most Wanted. This is when the Police cars chasing and in some other cases. The story as such is not clear in the starting. Differentiating the older versions, the types of races are new. It includes Dominating the race cars by getting the lead upto 1000ft etc.

NFSU vs NFSMW vs NFSPS

The new kind of races added may show some better interest. Coming to Graphics, The Graphics appear inferior to that of NFS MW at lower resolutions and low detail settings, like the shadow effects, car detail variables, world detail, world effects etc. The appearance of car too is very similar to that in the case of NFS Pro Street. The environment view or the world view is better in the case of NFS Pro Street out of these three. The game goes on as the racer roams in a city and engages races of different kind. GPS Navigation is available. Damage indicator is added in the right bottom at the location where Nitrous Oxide used to be shown in the other versions. The Time Slowdown also is available. Nitrous Oxide when used may not show any flames coming out. After all what matters is the game play. So, let us see, how well the game goes on.