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Revision as of 18:21, 9 June 2018

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Need for Speed: Carbon
Need for Speed: Carbon cover
Developers
EA Black Box
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
EAGL 3
Release dates
Windows October 31, 2006
macOS (OS X) August 17, 2007
Need for Speed: Carbon guide on StrategyWiki
Need for Speed: Carbon on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
⤏ Go to series page
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Need for Speed Heat 2019
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General information

Need for Speed Wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest patch can be found here. Select the version more suitable to your version.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Game\MOVIES\.
  2. Delete or rename attract_english_ntsc.vp6, ea_bumper_english_ntsc.vp6, eahd_bumper_english_ntsc.vp6 and psa_nikki_english_ntsc.vp6.

Notes

If you have another language then the delete the file with your language instead and if you have the PAL version the files will have PAL instead of NTSC in the end.
Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Open NFSCarbon.WidescreenFix.ini.
  3. Change SkipIntro = 0 to SkipIntro = 1.
  4. Change WindowedMode = 0 to WindowedMode = 1.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Electronic Arts\Need for Speed Carbon\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\NFS Carbon\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)

Video settings

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General video settings.
ThirteenAG's fix may require the latest patch. See Patches.

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Field of view (FOV)

Set custom FOV[citation needed]
  1. Download NFS-VltEd.
  2. Extract the contents and open the application.
  3. Click on File → Open and select the installation folder.
  4. On the left side, expand camerainfo and default.
  5. Select the camera you want to modify (bumper, close, etc.)
  6. On the right side, expand FOV and change the value beside [0] to the FOV you want.
    • For the hood camera, you may have to change the value for each car individually.
  7. Click on File → Save to apply the changes.

Input settings

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Input settings.

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Audio settings

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Audio settings #1.
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Audio settings #2.

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Though the game not includes EAX.dll library, Creative Alchemy still can be used to enhance sound quality. It will just emulate DirectSound and 3D positional audio with OpenAl. Difference can be easily noticeable when music is off. For non-Creative cards users see here or use dsoal. Run in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode to avoid crashing career mode while using Alchemy/dsoal. Sometimes whole career need to be started from the beginning with compatibility mode and Alchemy enabled. The solutions are to avoid disapearing car in career menu and crash after attempt to race. Compatibility mode can cause resetting of the game settings. Above solution rather not influences Most Wanted 2005 positively (low sampling frequency).

Subtitles

Enable English subtitles[citation needed]
  1. Install NFSC Extra Options.
  2. Open NFSCExtraOptionsSettings.ini.
  3. Change ShowSubs = 0 to ShowSubs = 1.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
See Subtitles.
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Korean
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish

Network

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Online settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Console versions only.[3]
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Controller deadzone issues

Fix left stick deadzone[4]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Deadzone can be adjusted in NFSCarbon.WidescreenFix.ini.

Unable to load save game

Fix save game loading crash[citation needed]
  1. Install NFSC Extra Options.
  2. Make sure Win10Fix = 1 is set in NFSCExtraOptionsSettings.ini.

Stuttering in Windows 10

Fix stuttering once every second[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's widescreen fix.
  2. Open NFSCarbon.WidescreenFix.ini.
  3. Set WindowedMode = 1 to run the game borderless windowed.

Crashes in Challenge Series

Fix crashes during certain races[citation needed]
  1. Open NFSC.exe compatibility settings.
  2. Enable Windows XP (SP3) compatibility mode.

Game can't be uninstalled

eauninstall.exe error: "The program can't start because EAInstall.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."
Fix uninstall error[5]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Copy EAInstall.dll to %WINDIR%\.
  3. Uninstall the game normally.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Weather

Force rainy weather[citation needed]
  1. Install NFSC Extra Options.
  2. Open NFSCExtraOptionsSettings.ini.
  3. Change AlwaysRain = 0 to AlwaysRain = 1.
Change size of rain drops[6]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Open NFSCarbon.WidescreenFix.ini.
  3. Add RainDropletsScale = 0.5 and change the value if needed.

Mods

NFSC Extra Options - adds various new settings and fixes vanilla game bugs.
NFSC Wingman - This mod brings you some new crew stuff.
NFSC Enhanced Visual Treatment - enables an unused graphics option and other tweaks.[7]
Need for Speed Carbon HD Edition - includes high resolution textures.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 SP4, XP SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4.7 GB (Retail) 11 GB (Download)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3 Series/4 Ti Series
ATI Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon 9800
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
  2. ↑ 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