First post, by Azarien
I'm trying to run NFS Road Challenge (aka High Stakes) on Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Radeon HD7850.
I am unable to run the game on Windows XP at all - I'm getting the "Need For Speed files corrupted. Please reinstall" message.
The game does however run on Windows 10 (in Windows XP compatibility mode, to make things more puzzling).
Unfortunately, there is significant stuttering (about once a second) that I cannot get rid of. I tried low res (640x480), hi res (1600x1200), low details, high details, triple buffering on/off, forcing antialiasing on/off, anisotropic filtering - the problem persists whether I set everything to slowest settings and to fastest settings.
Running the game through affinity.exe to force it to single core does not seem to change anything.
Neither does using dgVoodoo 2 - again, in various resolutions and quality settings.
I am starting to thing this may be not an issue with graphics card at all, but rather the CPU being too fast - is this a known issue with NFS4?