First post, by kjliew
Hi, does anyone know a way to obtain the official EA patch for Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit?
All existing downloads that I could find are installing "Network Play System" which would then connect to EA servers to update the game. Unfortunately, EA server no longer responded and I couldn't get the game updated. I remembered the initial release retailed CD, the game had issues with Voodoo/Voodoo2 playing on Glide and EA 3D card detection explicitly used Direct3D renderer on Voodoo/Voodoo2 cards. I was able to update the game through EA servers back then and played perfectly with Voodoo2 on Windows 2000 with Glide renderer. That was a long, long time ago.....
I understand that there are fans' modern patch for NFS3 from VEG, but this is not what I am looking for. The VEG patch reduces the views to only 2 views, in-car and 3rd-person, while the original game has 3 views, in-car and 2 other 3rd-person views. I hope to be able to obtain the EA official patch and patch the game to its official final form without the need of internet connection.