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Need for Speed High Stakes Downloads

NFS4 All in One HD Mod Pack

NFS4 All in One HD Mod Pack
AuthorHommelwomb
Added On May 5, 2026
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Version High Stakes
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Description

A collection of 50 cars from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.



  • VEG Modern Patch, Widescreen Patch and Multi Lingular Patch

  • Reshade (NUM key in game = toggle on/off or delete file D3D9.dll to remove completely)

  • HD versions of the original tracks

  • HD versions of the original cars as well as for the new ones
  • dashboards and customizable numberplates for every car
  • career play upgrades for every car from class B to AA
  • EA-style VidWalls and showcases with audio for every car (addon cars only in English)
  • technical data sheets for every car in both metric and imperial systems
  • correct rpm- and mph-needle placements for any car
  • original car colors

  • new track sequences for career play
  • every track has 2 laps
  • optional 1 lap (DATA/TEXT --> short career mode)
  • El Nino Pro Cup replaced with McLaren Pro Cup
  • win the cars needed to participate in the various manufacturer Pro Cups in High Stakes races

  • delta patches for gear switch fix
  • automatic downshift removal
  • 2 traffic cars --> 8 to 9 depending on mode
  • optional: no car resets (alternative exe)

  • PS1 soundtracks
  • Cop Speech Expansion (only English)
  • traffic node fixes
  • HD numberplates, helicopters and traffic cars
  • and more ...

  1. To install copy the SAVE and SAVEDATA folders from your game CD.
  2. Afterwards install the mod pack and choose overwrite all.
  3. Optionally switch language in nfs4.ini (language=british, english, french, german, italian, spanish or swedish)
  4. Ready to go.

Credits to the hundreds of mod creators.

Car list: https://www.nfsaddons.com/forums/index.php?topic=2832.0

Still looking for better dashboards as well as audio showcases for some cars and "real" night modes for some tracks.

Changelog

  • Version 1.1 uploaded May 5, 2026

    Hommelwomb uploaded a new version. The new file is 891.65 MB.

    set headlights to be vertexed instead of projected in config - no need to redownload as you can do that youself in game
  • Initial version uploaded May 5, 2026

    Hommelwomb uploaded initial version. The original file is 0 B.

Visitor Comments

  • Geminiyo - 13 days ago
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    :100: complex hobby you have. Will have a test drive tomorrow morning. Have a nice night.

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  • Cooya! - 13 days ago
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    What a nice idea to give us a completely patched version with everything that makes NFS4 shine nowadays... I still have to fiddle a bit with the settings as it sometimes freezes and hangs itself when playing but I can figure that out for sure. NFS4 is quite a diva on modern systems. 

    But what absolutely destroys it for me is the use of Reshade. I hate that stuff sooooo much! The horrible sharpening, the blue filter, the uber-contrast... Until I figure out how to kill it off completely I just can not use your mod. 

    Is there a possibility of a kind of "switch" to turn that stuff out in a next version? I tried to delete everything with "reshade" in it's name but it still works unfortunately. :cry:

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    • Hommelwomb - 13 days ago
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      I use much less sharpening than other reshade presets. You can toggle on and off reshade in game with the NUM-key. Alternatively you can also completely disable it by setting NoReloadOnInit=1 in the reshade.ini.

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      edited by Hommelwomb 13 days ago
    • Cooya! - 13 days ago
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      unfortunately I can not access the reshade menu via NUM-key as the mouse control does not work in this menu. I tried an "NoReloadOnInit=1" entry to the INI and it seems to work but it does not get rid of the reshade overlay on top of the screen. Is there an option to uninstall this stuff? I really don't want to have this sh*t in my game AT ALL.

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    • Hommelwomb - 13 days ago
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      I haven't bothered to uninstall it yet, since toggling it on and off via the NUM key works flawlessly for me—entirely without any mouse input. The uninstallation process seems a bit strange. First, you need to download the ReShade setup with full add-on support. Then, run it and navigate to nfs.exe --> Next --> DirectX9 --> Next --> Uninstall. That worked for me.

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      edited by Hommelwomb 13 days ago
    • pete9516 - 13 days ago
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      Cooya!12 days ago
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      I don't know what kinda version this mod uses, but deleting the following files from the main folder should do the trick: d3d8.dll , d3d9.dll
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    • pete9516 - 13 days ago
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      And to fix the game from freezing itself in the menues, simply either install TsTg's HS Music & Tweaks mod or rename the "Movies" folder, so movies can't be read from the game nomore. This fixes the game from freezing in the menues
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    • Cooya! - 12 days ago
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      Thank you Pete. But the game does not freeze in the menus but in the races... soemtimes after 5-10 seconds after the start. I am pretty sure that it has to do with "Reshade" as deactivating it fixed this issue. Reshade made my game go completely bonkers anyway... it brought my GeForce RTX2060 almost to boiling temperature. It's not the newest graphics card but it still does the trick for a 1999 game. It never happened with any demanding modern game till now. 

      Anyway... I hate Reshade and I hope for a "lite version" without this stuff from the beginning as I can not understand how ANYONE on earth can like the graphic tweaks is does to the game AT ALL. All it does is this "year-2000-fancy-HDR" filters, that are in fact the opposite of HDR as it always raises contrast to unbearable extends... almost like a vanilla "NFS - Most Wanted" that needed patches to delete this stuff to look acceptable ;)

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    • pete9516 - 12 days ago
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      What on earth were you doing with this Reshade.me LoL Your graphic card is brand new compared to my gtx960 from msi and i've never encountered a problem like this before. It sounds like you've activated every single feature from that Reshade thing. I mostly agree with you that this plugin can do more than needed/wanted, but it also has it's good sides (which i've then decided i don't need them in High Stakes and then uninstalled it again because the game just looks "good enough" with simply setting the graphics to it's maximum). With graphics i mean the stuff you can set in your usual/everyday graphic card like mine from NVidia (no integrated laptop graphic unit lol) and simply using nGlide or DGVoodoo and set everything needed to high
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  • EvoX - 13 days ago
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    Wow that's massive. Great work.  Need to check it up. I'm sure there's smth useful for me... 👍
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  • Geminiyo - 13 days ago
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    dear, something is wrong with a Text or Tracks folder. Within 3d try i realize that (exception error at a game start).

    So i took F1GTR for a test drive, and well, to me the handling... Default handling look astonishingly sucks - to be fair.


    Everything else seems functioning. Waiting more from you.

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  • EvoX - 13 days ago
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    Guys... someone torrent please. Site works bad w me. Only small volumes downloadable😂

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    • pete9516 - 12 days ago
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      I bit the bullet ;D
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  • Mike - 11 days ago
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    EvoX11 days ago
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    I have uploaded this to Google Drive, so the file is hosted there now :)
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    • EvoX - 11 days ago
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      Mike11 days ago
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      Oh! It's perfect now! Download finished. Thank u so much) also thanks for running this cool site🏁

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  • EvoX - 11 days ago
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    No damage on the Diablo... No SV sticker, too. Not true🤣Joking. Problem is, it doesn't start a sheat with me. Diagnostic message shown. But I've checked tho Trax on another copy, fine work on them👍🏁
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    • Hommelwomb - 11 days ago
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      EvoX11 days ago
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      Fully upgrade for your SV logo 👍 

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    • EvoX - 11 days ago
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      Interesting idea btw
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  • Geminiyo - 9 days ago
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    EvoX9 days ago
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    So i checked all the Tracks folders, they are all good. When i installed your Text folder - game refuses to run. So here the original english Text folder.


    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrAuKe_PRldbNNmzXbOycFE6Z4DJBNTb/view?usp=sharing

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    edited by Geminiyo 9 days ago
    • Hommelwomb - 9 days ago
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      I compared the orginal CD English text folder files with the original CD German ones using a hex-editor. They are identical.

      Anyone else has that problem?

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    • pete9516 - 9 days ago
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      There's actually missing many files from that folder. I can upload the EP text folder for you to see which files are missing:

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dlttyuIuhtAaYA79cypFxXBkT4unVig9/view?usp=sharing

      But after fixing that, the game still refused to start, your setup is not Windows 7 friendly lol

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    • Geminiyo - 9 days ago
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      100% crashing. From the archive from Nfsaddons. Tho I'm not hex editing master. 
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    • Hommelwomb - 8 days ago
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      The mod only contains files which have been changed. The complete DATA and SAVEDATA files from your game CD should be installed first as a requirement.

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  • EvoX - 9 days ago
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    Daaaammm... the damage on F50 looks sweet as seccs. And finally the SV gets a proper HD speedo and interior! I'm still testing... Wish the DB7 had that cool Lindisfarne Gold colour. Really nice pack.
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    • marast78 - 8 days ago
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      You mean the ugly yellowish color of the official addon car in NFS4? I actually edited that color in my extensive (unfinished) NFS4 fixes, because I found it just terrible.

      BTW, I am not sure there actually is a 100% reliable information about that color. Few other DB7 gold-ish colors are similar to each other and look nothing like this yellow in NFS4, but getting real info on Lindisfarne Gold is tough. The only thing I know for sure is that it was used rarely on the car and only in some years, maybe only one year, I am not sure about that either. Tay Gold was used in 2002 only I think e.g. and looks, well, like gold, not yellow. :D


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    • EvoX - 8 days ago
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      Well, it's not ugly, at least in my system it looks like fine gold, and it was on the default EA DB7 after all.  But thanks for the info. 
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      edited by EvoX 8 days ago
    • marast78 - 8 days ago
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      EvoX8 days ago
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      Yes, it was certainly an existing color on the car, the only question is - how it really looked like. The default EA color is more like the yellow often used on Volante.
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    • EvoX - 8 days ago
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      Thinking that maybe you could upload your fixes of the ea cars bcuz to be honest they lack some colors/performance is not the best, the Lambo is too narrow etc., we know that stuff😂
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  • MaeveSterling - 9 days ago
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    WOOW
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  • marast78 - 8 days ago
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    EvoX8 days ago
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    I am not a big fan of hi-poly cars for NFS3 or 4 as I think that they simply don't mix well with the rest of assets and the engine in general, but this is quite huge amount of work, so it was a must to make an exception.


    I don't have time to try all of the cars, I tried only few so far and they are really great work. Congrats on this! These must have taken terrible amount of time and work that rarely anyone invests in a vantage game these days.


    There are few things I encountered (at least so far), like Skyline not having correct needle positions of RPM/Speedo meters, nothing serious.

    But then there is also a problem with Skyline in terms of its serial number. Original EA addon is bugged in this regard (and in many others) where it uses #25 in all FEDATA files, but #26 in CARP, causing problems with Lister if this car is installed as well. You don't have Lister in your pack, so perhaps you don't use it on your own, but others can have it and it will bite a bit.

    Correct number #26 should belong to Lister I think, simply because Storm was also used in NFS3, with the same number.


    And I would like to see some documentation in the pack, like where some of the assets come from. From my short testing, this particular question would be about the GT90 interior, because it's the same one as the one here, released almost quarter of century ago: https://www.nfsaddons.com/downloads/nfshs/cars/ford/656/ford-ford-gt-90.html


    Also, full pack of some cars will make the game inevitably slow, no matter the hardware. While I also use Silent Patch in conjunction with Veg's, it doesn't really help it in this regard, it only makes Veg's patch more stable. Medium bodies would be welcome, but I understand that it's a lot of additional work. No medium bodies with standard EA cars is not a problem even on a potato from 2000, just these hi-poly ones are.


    And last thing - normals, again only from that little what I tried. But I get that these cars probably aren't used only for NFS4 and that making "proper" normals for all these cars would be very time consuming, so it's not really a complain in the light of the bigger picture.


    Anyway, so far quite cool, I will certainly test more when I have time.


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    • pete9516 - 8 days ago
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      Your problem is not the high poly cars, but the 3d renderer setup instead.

      Try this setup if you want the lagging to disappear when using high poly cars:

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CvD0lQTWeOlB4KAU-HQwuoTMX_BSIDEP/view?usp=sharing

      Password is: Proper

      If for some reason this setup doesn't work for you, change from dx7 to dx9 inside the nfs4.ini

      It should work perfectly fine in combination with Reshade.me

      Make sure to use an ingame resolution with a (z) behind it, otherwise you'll get graphic bugs/glitches

      Note: It's risky to use full screen mode in dgvoodoo. I personally start the game in windowed mode and then press Alt Enter to make it full screen because if the game crashes all from a sudden, it will screw your desktop

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    • marast78 - 7 days ago
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      Thanks.

      It won't screw my desktop in Wine on Wayland, that's not a problem. ;)

      In general, I use only two renderers - nGlide and Software for mostly testing, because the Z related visual issues in it are not worth dealing with for normal gameplay.

      I tried "Proper", but I can't get it to work at all with the wow64 build of Wine with or without DXVK. I will try more later, but I doubt I will get it to work properly.

      I prefer nGlide because of the visual presentation a great compatibility. Gamma in D3D renderers seems a bit wrong to me, but it can also be a habit.

      While Dgvoodoo is great for many things (I use it for RalliSport Challenge, TD5 etc.), but it's also a bit of hit and miss depending on version, so for CMR2 e.g. I use only Dxwrapper as it gets rid of that terrible stutter completely.

      Yeah sorry, a bit OT. :D


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    • pete9516 - 7 days ago
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      I've once managed to get dgvoodoo working on some proton build with High Stakes, but i can't remember how we did it. At this point, i'm out. My setup only works out of the box for Windows users. Linux users have to build their own version of it. What i can guarantee you is that nGlide is very inperformant and it looks even worse than dgvoodoo2 because it won't have any mipmapping. So i'm glad i don't have to fiddle around with Linux getting dgvoodoo2 to simply run being in the main installation folder. It's somehow sad that it can't handle older versions of dx7. Did you try changing from dx7 to dx9 in the nfs4.ini?
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    • marast78 - 7 days ago
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      I can get NFS4 to run with dgVoodoo and standard Veg's renderers perfectly fine, just the new dx7/9 renderers don't work here in Wine. To be precise, I can get it to work so it runs with Dxwrapper, but that has missing textures etc. With dgVoodoo, it crashes on start with both, DX7 and DX9. I tried later dgVoodoo version, same result.

      No problem though, nGlide is just fine for testing this, only a bit slower with full pack of cars. I am quite aware of its performance limitations, but they are not a problem for the base game at all and are not a problem for other games it supports either, only if these are pushed where they were never supposed to be.

      And it's consistent in its presentation. Mipmaps are not present in NFS4 with it, yes, but that's actually a plus for me when it comes to NFS4 and old racing games in general. With mipmaps, you get blurred textures in distance, with the low-res assets the more so. So it's needed to compensate with high aniso. Well, what for, just use nGlide. ;)

      Anyway, thanks for help and time pete, I appreciate it. :thumbsup:


      EDIT:

      Some of those hi-res tracks are full of texture noise, so I had to keep investigating. Finally a working combination is DXVK 1.10.3 and dgVoodoo 2.62. 

      It's surely better for these assets, performance with full pack is better as well. Stability not so much, but I  had only one crash, so it could've been dxvk cache or something.

      It's a good idea not have nfs4.exe lose focus with it though.

      I tried the default dx7 and also dx9, both seem to work fine.

      No idea why is the d3d8.dll included though, it's surely not needed.


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      edited by marast78 6 days ago
    • pete9516 - 6 days ago
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      d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll are part of dgvoodoo. Reshade.me also uses these libraries so it's kinda hard to combine them i guess. Why i use dgvoodoo in combination with directx is because it performs way better than nGlide and is needed if you mod the game to it's limits. It's what this modpack does, especially due to the high resolution textures of specific tracks like the initial version of Neighbourhood Drive. There's tracks which you can't get to run on setups like nGlide or native DirectX. You need an emulated voodoo card where you can set the VRAM. This is very important on HQ/HD mods
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  • EvoX - 7 days ago
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    Wow sick background on Redrock and Rockypass, 4 real👍Also beautiful stars.
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    edited by EvoX 7 days ago
  • biscontx3 - 6 days ago
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    love this, all looks great, but for some reason during a race, the geometry after a certain camera distance does not align with adjacent objects, this happens to everything, hard to explain, might have to record a youtube vid of it, but cars and maps look amazing, gonna have to figure out why virtual gaps appear in front of my car or in my car (depending on where the camera POV is)
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    • pete9516 - 6 days ago
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      Try to set an ingame resolution with a (z) behind it
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    • biscontx3 - 5 days ago
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      thanks, I tried several resolutions, all with (z) but all have the same issue, it does seem 'z buffer' related because when I turn that off it makes it worse, appreciate the idea, I also might re-try with a fresh install too just to see if that makes it go away
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      edited by biscontx3 5 days ago
    • biscontx3 - 5 days ago
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      no go, still working on it because everything else runs like a top, so temptingly close to perfect!
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    • pete9516 - 4 days ago
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      Ok very strange, maybe your ingame graphic settings aren't set to full? I don't know anymore.. Usually what you've described only happens when there's problems with the 16bit depth buffer or a resolution with a (z) behind it is not choosen
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    • marast78 - 3 days ago
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      Image speaks a thousand words, if you have one.

      It would make things at least clear for others so they know what you are dealing with.


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      edited by marast78 3 days ago
    • biscontx3 - 2 days ago
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      would take a video honestly since the gap moves with the camera, I do have these screenshots but still hard to see in a static image

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    • pete9516 - 15 hours ago
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      Do you still have this issue?
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    • biscontx3 - 48 minutes ago
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      Nope! it has since resolved itself :D, my next step is to identify what is causing the issue by comparing what is in the zip download vs what I have right now that's working

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  • marast78 - 2 days ago
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    biscontx31 day ago
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    It's visible quite well. And it's super annoying just from the screenshots. This almost looks like a problem with perspective, but that can't be set in any other renderer than the "softtri" one.


    I tried to reproduce it by messing with thrash.ini files and renderers, but no luck. But my setup doesn't really render the game in D3D mode, but either OpenGL or Vulkan, so it may also prevent me from reproducing this somehow.


    It can very well be a driver issue, but this would be rather unusual problem for Nvidia driver, using AMD?


    I also had to first convert all the files in the pack to lower case, since it is a mess of a mix of lower and upper case filenames, no documentation in it and a bunch of dlls mixed together combining Dxwrapper, dgVoodoo, Reshade and some new nfs4.exe - serious mess of things.


    What I suggest you do is take your default NFS4 installation, copy it somewhere and use that for the HD pack.


    Then, in the copy of your NFS4 installation, delete the "cars" folder in "savedata" as it will interfere with some of the cars in this HD pack if you use some of the EA addon cars. Then copy over only the "data" and "savedata" folders from this HD pack, replacing the files. Or copy over just one car and one track folder to test.


    Finally, get the "Proper" renderers from the link pete9516 posted, using the password "Proper" (no quotes) to unpack: ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CvD0lQTWeOlB4KAU-HQwuoTMX_BSIDEP/view?usp=sharing ) and copy over the files, replacing the current ones.


    That's more or less the way I use this pack, but with different dgVoodoo version and DXVK on top.


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    edited by marast78 2 days ago
    • pete9516 - 2 days ago
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      biscontx31 day ago
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      Hmm maybe the older versions of dx7 and dx9 may not work on every machine, but if not, just take the ones from VEG's modern patch, they'll also do the job
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    • biscontx3 - 21 hours ago
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      WORKS! I have no idea what I did, I was trying to leave the VEG drivers in, then copy over then wouldn't run so I put them in now it works!?! If no one else has a problem with it I guess it's all good now, but you gave me the idea to fiddle with the voodoo drivers, if someone else has the same issue I'll do a comparison of my files vs the download, just happy it works! 

      Also leaving the nominal settings at 640x480x16 (z) and the game seems to play in my native screen resolution 1440p, so whatevs I'm just happy it works!
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    • pete9516 - 15 hours ago
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      Yes it actually doesn't really matter which ingame resolution you choose, but the important part is the (z) behind the resolution. I've set dgvoodoo to use your desktop resolution. There's also newer versions of dgvoodoo which automatically take the largest 4:3 resolution which would be best for displaying, but i have the feeling that most people prefer the image to be filled to their desktop resolution

      Before applying my files, it's highly recommended to rename the already existing "dx7" and "dx9" folders

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