Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Detailed Report

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Full Detailed Report - Need For Speed: Underground 2
The game is based around tuning cars for street races, resuming the Need for Speed: Underground storyline.

Need For Speed: Underground 2

Need For Speed: Underground 2

Need For Speed: Underground 2

Need For Speed: Underground 2

 

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Same method as for widescreen: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/12921
However in multi-mon, the differences between third- and first-person cameras are so exaggerated that fixing one cam will break another. Truly unstretched, Hor+ gameplay across the board would require multiple sets of FOV values or on-the-fly adjustments.

Roughly Hor+ FOV Hack settings for 48:10 (chase cameras):
X FOV: 2
Y FOV: 0.429

4:3

48:10

With these settings, the bonnet cam looks like this: (broken!)

Roughly Hor+ FOV Hack settings for 48:10 (bonnet & bumper cams):
X FOV: 1.69
Y FOV: 0.379

4:3

48:10

With these settings, the far chase cam looks like this: (noticeable stretch)

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Guys is there any way to download the tool that is used for this?

There is no link on either this or the Full Report Page in the database.

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Now I remember how awful this game looked Tongue But it was one of the best!

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I Finally found the FOV hack from Racer_s on this site:
[url=http://www.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_nfs_underground_2.shtml#NFS: Underground 2 FOV HACK]Link[/url]
Because Racer_S's own site is down...

But when I try to start the FOV Hack it tells me it misses MSSTDFMT.DLL (even when I placed that DLL right next to the exe... ).
Can someone help me with this problem?

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Hey Ashketchum22NL, thanks for the heads-up on the missing file. A lot of links to the old site were broken during the move to the Drupal server, and a lot of changes are currently being made to the Detailed Report form so fixing this will take some time. Meanwhile most of Racer_S fixes can indeed be found on GCW...

Try downloading the latest Visual C++ package (vcredist) from Microsoft to fix the missing dll error.

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Tried that by downloading Visual C++ 2010 for Windows x64 on my XP x64 setup ... but I still get the same error...
Thanks for the hint.

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I had the same error when I first tried the fix and it was definitely because I needed a package of that sort; I'm no expert but it's something the fix was built with like Visual C++ 2010, 2008 or 2005 or maybe .NET Framework...
Sorry I can't be more specific.

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Tried them all three, but the problem still exists.

Thanx scavvenjahh for the help;)

Guess this one is not going to work for me Tongue

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