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Revision as of 04:41, 30 November 2023
For the sequel, see Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. For the 2010 game, see Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit is a racing game developed by EA Seattle and published by Electronic Arts. The third entry in the Need for Speed franchise, III: Hot Pursuit allows players to race several sports cars around nine tracks, with a separate "Hot Pursuit" mode for police chases that allows players to be chased by the cops as a racer or, for the first time in the series, be a cop to shut down other racers. The game was released on September 30, 1998.
The Need For Speed III Modern Patch allows to install and run the game on modern systems.
Availability
Source |
DRM |
Notes |
Keys |
OS |
Retail |
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Basic disc check. Earlier European copies use SecuROM DRM. |
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Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Ferrari 456M GT |
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Jaguar XKR |
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Lister Storm |
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Spectre R42 |
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Ford Falcon GT |
By default only in Australian release |
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HSV VT GTS |
By default only in Australian release |
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Chevrolet Corvette C5 Indy 500 Pace Car |
By default only in Wal-Mart release |
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- All official add-on cars (and their showcases) were released for free by EA.
- All official add-ons come as *.exe files and can only be installed if game was installed with original installer and all registry entries are present.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The official 3dfx Banshee Patch and the 3dfx Voodoo3 update are available at soggi.org.
Need For Speed III Modern Patch
- The patch contains support for widescreen resolutions as well as a lot of bug fixes.
Fan-made patch[citation needed]
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- Download the Need For Speed III Modern Patch.
- Copy FEDATA and GAMEDATA directories from the NFS3 CD to a new empty folder.
- Extract contents of this archive into that folder with replacement of files.
- Run the game.
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- Use with Modern Patch is strongly recommended, although not mandatory
Skip intro videos
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Fan-made patch[citation needed]
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- Install Need For Speed III Modern Patch (v1.6.2 currently in beta).
- Edit
nfs3.ini .
- Set
ThrashDriver to dx8 .
- Set
WindowedMode to 1 .
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Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Menu Music, Race Music, Effects, Engine and Speech sliders available. |
Surround sound |
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Stereo, Mono, Dolby Surround and DS3D/EAX. |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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EAX support |
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EAX 1[2] |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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Japanese |
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Japanese voices only available in showcase. |
Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Issues fixed
Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows
- Original installer doesn't work on 64-bit systems.
Fan-made patch[citation needed]
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Notes
- Doesn't need an installer and works on any Windows OS.
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Fan-made installer[citation needed]
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- To install on 64-bit systems, use this fan-made installer. It supports multiple languages and it has necessary compatibility fixes already implemented. The fan-made installer will automatically set the language to German. After installation, follow these instructions to change the language.
- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
install.win in a text editor such as Notepad.
- Change the language displayed in the first line to one of the five languages mentioned in the file (i.e. English, German, French, Spanish, or Italian). The language must be typed in all lowercase letters.
- Save the file and play the game. It should now be in your desired language.
- Also be sure to change the language in
NFS3.ini
Notes
- Adds add-on vehicles and street vehicles to the game menu.
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Crash on a Launch
Use a Fan-made patch[citation needed]
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
5 |
DX6, DX7 and DX8 through Modern Patch with fog effect and light beams support (they were exclusive effects for Glide) |
Glide |
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Glide3.x support with Voodoo 3 Patch. |
Software renderer |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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OpenNFS
- A reinplementation is in development. See more details on Github
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95 |
98 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 166 MHz
| Intel Pentium 200 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
16 MB |
32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
90 MB |
110 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
High Color capable IBM PCI
| 100% 3dfx Glide Compatible 12 MB of VRAM |
Notes
References