What's new in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Patch 1050

Apr 15, 2011
  • This patch fixes a rare crash when players were prompted to "Press Any Key".

New in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Patch 1040 (Apr 2, 2011)

  • Fixed crashes on boot on certain configurations of Windows (including when Windows Speech Recognition is installed)
  • Fixed deadzone issues on Steering Wheels and XInput controllers
  • Fixed black textures in some parts of the world when High Resolution Textures are disabled
  • Fixed crash when a controller is unexpectedly disconnected
  • Fixed crash when loading certain invalid controller configuration files

New in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Patch 1030 (Mar 18, 2011)

  • Fixes account for almost half (47%) of the crashes caused by the top 10 problems reported by our users. Specifically, crashes and rendering problems on ATI Radeon X1300, X1550 and X1800 graphics cards have been addressed. Fixes are also included for Intel embedded graphics chipsets such as the Intel GMA 500, Intel GMA 600 and Intel GMA X3000 which are running older graphics drivers.
  • Another crash bug has also been resolved when running on graphics hardware that does not support DirectX Shader Model 3.0.

New in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Patch 1020 (Jan 21, 2011)

  • Flickering graphics after Alt-Tabbing out of the game and back.
  • Controller configurations sometimes failing to save correctly.
  • Steering response dead-zone when playing with steering wheel controllers.
  • Player car engine audio volume too low.
  • Some issues with CPU performance.
  • Rare crash issue when entering the Career map screen
  • 3 Free Cars: The Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible, the Lamborghini Murcielago LP 650-4 Roadster and the Dodge Viper SRT10 Convertible Final Edition.

New in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Patch 1010 (Nov 29, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Quad-core CPU’s crash
  • Dreamshots are corrupted in non-16:9 aspect ratios: If you configure your game with a different resolution that yields an aspect ratio that’s not 16:9, dreamshots and snapshots were corrupted. This has been fixed.
  • Missing rain, snow and corona effects
  • CL Eye driver crashes the game
  • New Features:
  • D-Box motion chair support