Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Most Wanted was capped at 60 FPS and its race times drifted in long sessions. The fix lets it run smoothly at high refresh rates, stops the timebug, fixes several crashes and adds free look for the chase camera.

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Fusion Rain Droplets Visual

Raindrops and splashes of water run down the screen.

Fusion Rain Droplets: rain and water drops running down the screen.

Works with Fusion Fix
Its own settings in Customize

Tune:Minimum drop sizeMaximum drop sizeMaximum dropsMaximum moving drops+11

2.6 MB · ThirteenAG/FusionRainDroplets · 30 Aug 2019

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Features

Frame rate

No longer capped at 60 FPS and no judder at high refresh rates
Menu animations, animated textures, the race leaderboard and the NOS trail keep their speed at any frame rate
Timebug fixed: race times and timers no longer drift after long sessions

Fixes

Crashes fixed: roadblocks, cop HUD parts, missing languages, skipped intro movies, car paint and the sound
Shadows no longer vanish in tunnels and under bridges
Soft shadows on every graphics card, not just ATI
English subtitles in the story movies
Skip the intro movies

Display

Field of view that widens like the Xbox 360 version, plus a multiplier
HUD at the screen edges, or in a 16:9 or 21:9 area
Movies shown whole, in their original frame or filling the screen
Fullscreen, windowed, resizable or borderless

Graphics

Higher shadow resolution
Xbox 360 gamma and SMAA anti-aliasing
Adjustable rain droplet size

Controls

Free look: orbit the chase camera with the mouse or right stick
Xbox or PlayStation button icons and names in the menus
Separate dead zones for both sticks

Supported versions

The PC version (speed.exe).

Install

Customize the settings below, or keep the recommended ones.
Download the package and unpack it into the game's folder, where speed.exe is, keeping its folders. Keep Xidi.32.dll and Xidi.ini beside it for gamepad support, and remove NFS XtendedInput if it is installed.
Start the game. The settings are in the Options menu: the video options, and a Plugins category.