
Its jaw-dropping visuals, adrenaline-pumping audio, and highly-customizable handling make screaming around the darkened streets of Ventura Bay an intense thrill. The game is far from perfect, but it is, at points, truly exceptional. Now Playing: Need For Speed - Video Review Need For Speed doesn't offer manual shifting or any of Rivals' weaponry, but it does have a button devoted to killing your engine while you hide from the cops. I did eventually conquer those missions, and in the process I learned two extremely valuable lessons: Using a single "balanced" ride for both drift and race events is a terrible idea at higher levels, and despite all of the frustrating nonsense Need For Speed put me through, I was always excited to dive back in.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's This extra currency, I hoped, might let me upgrade my way to victory. I tried and retried until I finally decided to grind through smaller side events to earn some "rep" and cash. I'd been building my stock Subaru into an unstoppable tuner beast for nearly 15 hours at that point, but for whatever reason, I just could not get past the most recently unlocked story missions. While it's not a completely novel approach for the series ( Underground covered tuner car culture over a decade ago), it does open a few new avenues for Need For Speed's arcadey but nuanced style of racing-most notably in its progression and customization systems.Īt one point during my playthrough, however, I hit a wall. This latest Need For Speed follows in the footsteps of the first Fast and Furious film by exploring the white-knuckled world of illegal street racing.

At various points, it's been a police chase simulator, a realistic track racer, and even a Cannonball Run-style action movie on wheels. I downloaded MSI Afterburner and downclocked my GPU by about 10% and since then I played for several hours straight without any crash.The Need For Speed series has always been something of a chameleon. Temperatures normally hover between 78-86 in-game.ĭirectX Version: 12 (Thought it is important in this case)ĮDITED: After many attempts to solve my issue I have managed and this is how I did it. My game also runs smoothly at 60fps, it is just this crash that does not let me enjoy it. I am playing on a laptop: Asus G751JY, looked up benchmarks with the same setup as mine and the game runs perfectly without any crashes. "Drivers are up-to-date, did clean reboots and what not."

I am turning to this forum for more specific help for this issue. (DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED) I have tried all the possible steps on the internet which I could find. The most common crash I get is on the attached file to this post. I bought "Need for Speed" a few days ago and since then I contacted "EA" support several times for help, but non of the provided information helped me.
