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==Game data== | ==Game data== |
Revision as of 01:32, 4 June 2022
Developers | |
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EA Black Box[1] | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Engines | |
EAGL 2 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 9, 2004 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 82 |
IGDB | 79 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Racing |
Vehicles | Automobile, Street racing |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | Need for Speed: Underground |
Need for Speed: Underground | |
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Subseries of Need for Speed | |
Need for Speed: Underground | 2003 |
Need for Speed: Underground 2 | 2004 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A compilation of the original Need for Speed: Underground, Underground 2 and Most Wanted is also available.
- A faithful, higher quality icon can be found on DeviantArt. An alternate icon by AlexKVideos1 can be found on SteamGridDB.
Demo
- A playable demo is available on the Internet Archive.
- Progress will not be carried over to the main game.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.2. Strongly recommended.
Skip intro videos
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Disable regional lock
- Allows playing with both EU and US exclusive cars at the same time.
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Controller support improvements (NFSU XtendedInput)
- Improves gamepad support by implementing native XInput support into the game.
- Xbox and PlayStation prompts are both supported.
- Rebinding can be made only through .ini file. It's disabled in game menu, as for now it crashes the game.
- Controls are reset to default.
- Can be installed alongside both ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix and NFSU2 Extra Options, as it uses ThirteenAG's Ultimate ASI Loader and therefore will load the .asi files for all three mods, and was developed with compatibility with the other two mods in mind.[4]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\EA Games\Need for Speed Underground 2\[Note 2] |
- Key bindings are stored in
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\DirectX\DirectInput\User Maps
(32-bit Windows) or%COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)%\DirectX\DirectInput\User Maps
(64-bit Windows).
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\NFS Underground 2\ |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Use ThirteenAG's fix. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use ThirteenAG's fix. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use ThirteenAG's fix and Ultrawide (21:9) Fix. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Use ThirteenAG's fix. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Use ThirteenAG's fix. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FSAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Frame rate is capped at 120 FPS. See High frame rate. Multiplayer Outrun is capped at 30 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
- Use NFSU2 HUD Resizer to modify the offset values of the HUD elements.
Windowed
Set windowed/borderless |
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Force windowed[citation needed] |
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High frame rate
Change FPSLimit[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Requires the DirectInput Mapper to remember bindings between sessions. | |
Mouse acceleration | Mouse is used only in menus. Default Windows behavior | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Fixed view | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | Use ThirteenAG's fix to adjust deadzone. | |
Full controller support | Use NFSU XtendedInput | |
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | Unused |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | Use NFSU XtendedInput | |
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Xbox button prompts | Use NFSU XtendedInput | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Use NFSU XtendedInput | |
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PlayStation button prompts | Use NFSU XtendedInput | |
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | Use NFSU XtendedInput | |
Haptic feedback | DirectInput controllers only. | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, Menu Music, In-Game Music, Speech, Effects, Tires and Engine sliders available. | |
Surround sound | Only Stereo and Mono available. Optimized for Dolby Pro Logic. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | Although not advertised as such the game does support EAX, at least reverb effects, but without surround sound. It can be restored with ALchemy. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | UK and US English. | |||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Korean | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. | |||
Russian | Available here. | |||
Slovak | Fan translation, download here or alternative translation here. | |||
Spanish | ||||
Thai |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | Console versions only. | |||
LAN play | 6 | |||
Online play | 6 | The official EA server was shut down in November 2007 |
Issues fixed
Custom bindings lost on game restart
- Windows Vista and later lack a file needed for the game to remember custom mappings.
Download dimap.dll[citation needed] |
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Controller deadzone issues
Fix left stick deadzone[7] |
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The game doesn't load (crashes during loading screen)
- This is likely caused by multi-monitor setups using multiple GPU's.[citation needed]
Potential workaround[citation needed] |
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Random crashing on entering/exiting shops
- Can be caused by multiple CPUs.
Set affinity for speed2.exe to use only 1 CPU[citation needed] |
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Use ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix[8] |
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Use compatibility mode[citation needed] |
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Effects flicker (Windows 7 and 10)
- Some effects, such as rain, car respawn effect or the nos flames, flicker or glitch. Otherwise, no issues.[citation needed]
Use compatibility mode[citation needed] |
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Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed] |
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Particle system lag (Windows 10)
- Particle system causes lag, mostly at start of races, turning it off gets rid of the issue.
- Fullscreen Exclusive Mode causes lag
Run game in Windowed or Borderless Mode |
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Go to Windowed section |
Use compatibility mode[citation needed] |
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Change FPSLimit[citation needed] |
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- Optionally it is possible to disable VSync through video card settings, and keep Particle System on.
Savegame name turned to random symbols, unable to save
- This is likely extremely rare to occur.
Relaunch the game(this rollbacks progress to last time you saved)[citation needed] |
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Change the savegame name variable[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Modifications
- Some mods could break LAN multiplayer mode component, making it impossible to host/join LAN servers.
HD Reflections
- Changes resolution of reflections.
HUD Resizer
- Adds ability to change HUD and FMV scale.
Extra Options
- Adds many useful features and fixes.
Unlimiter
- Fixes some issues and makes some improvements for add-on cars and events.
Visual Reputation Remover
- Makes it possible to progress through the game without ricing the car.
NFS Underground 2 Music Importer
- Makes it possible to replace in-game tracks with user
.mp3
or.wav
.
Olympic Imports
- Aims to add the cut cars from beta/NFSUG1 and Underground Rivals back into Need for Speed Underground 2.
- Requires Unlimiter and Car Sound Tuner to avoid crashes and bugs.
Scout's UI Remaster
- Replaces low-res GUI and HUD graphics with high-res counterparts.
New HD Textures Pack
- Remakes some of the ground textures to be as close to the originals as possible.
- Author of this mod recommends to use 8K HDRI Skyboxes mod.
Lightsiders Global
- Enhances the visuals of the game.
- Does not require Texmod.
- Deviates from the original look of the game.
- Archived download link
NFS Underground 2 High Vision 1.10
- Graphics improvement mod.
- A set of textures from different authors in one package.
Need for Speed Underground 2 Last Breath
- Improves the visuals of the game.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 98, 2000, ME, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 933 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 2 ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
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Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
References
- ↑ Need for Speed Underground 2 - EA Games - last accessed on 2017-04-04
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ https://github.com/xan1242/NFSU-XtendedInput/issues/4#issuecomment-1145578968
- ↑ NFSU2 rain fix bug
- ↑ NFSU2 Lag when upshift/downshift · Issue #886 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack
- ↑ Need for Speed - Analog sticks deadzone · Issue #165 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack - last accessed on 2017-04-09
- ↑ [NFSU2 Performance improvement by CrabJournal · Pull Request #1045 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack - last accessed on 2022-01-24
- ↑ [NFSU2 Performance improvement by CrabJournal · Pull Request #1045 · ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack - last accessed on 2022-01-24