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NFS Unbound not opening / starting
Hello world! I am facing an issue regarding NFS Unbound. I can't open it. Just like that. When pressing the 'Play' button on Steam, game goes into 'launching' mode, then the EA app opens as a pop-up like thingy, with the message 'Preparing Game' and then it closes and then opens again the full EA app and the games remains closed. After some inspection the game opens for a brief second or so as a 'Background process' not like a normal app(as viewed from task manager), witch is odd. note - I play from Steam, I bought every DLC from steam, and I am using a laptop with more than recommended specifications, I also can play and open other games like CS, LiarsBar and also nfs most wanted, I also tried opening EA FC 25 demo and it works just fine. Also important to mention, the game worked just fine until a week ago, I went in a vacation and when I got home it didn't work anymore I have tried the normal troubleshooting: restart of laptop, check updates - all ok, check via steam integrity of game files - all good, uninstall and reinstall, the game and the EA app, more restarts nothing. Then I checked with EA support, they provided the same troubleshooting I did above plus some links to check some errors but I don't get any soo I moved forward, and something about cache files from the EA app, I did the recovery thing, tried again, nothing, restart the laptop, nothing. Restart again, open everything with 'Run as Admin' - nothing. Then I started looking in this forum and I saw a lot of players with this issue, they came up with some fixes yet none that helped me, at some point I found a long thread from 5mo ago yet no fix from there also. I am starting to think this is a server side bug. Could you help me fix this pls? Thx!
A slew of fixes that need to be addressed no matter what, Kaizen!
Before I start, I want to say that I contacted an EA manager who I won't name and gave them a lot of very frank feedback about the current state of Unbound not being in the best it could be because of all these persistent bugs I've found and learned. All I ask is for fixes and not more content, as much as people would want the latter more. So allow me to list all the bugs that were left unfixed that I and likely many others have been having, working my way from the smallest things to the bigger ones... Minor Bugs While I don't think these ones specifically will be addressed, these ones still annoy me a lot. The first minor bug that I have came across is that when I select a specific Driving Effects Tag in the game before jumping into any online game mode, they revert back to the default "Witness Me" effect, so I'd have to go back into the garage and equip the effects I wanted when I really shouldn't have to do that. It has been a thing for a while now, and it still hasn't been addressed yet! The second thing I've come across, and I've also made a post about this as well, is that on the Cop Editions of the Porsche 911 GTS and Nissan Skyline, if the Undercover body kit is applied, and then switched back to the standard body kit, the main color of the car will be an unchangeable dark grey color just like the Undercover body kit. On the Skyline specifically, there's also some green saturation on the police livery as well, and you can't revert the color back to the white like how it's supposed to be. Some of the visual stuff in the Lockdown game mode don't exactly work like they're supposed to. The rap meter at the extraction screen doesn't work as intended such as filling up all the way and saying "Complete" even when you don't have enough Rap to get all the Aims, the number of gained Rap under the bar itself not being listed correctly, and at the vehicle selection screen when entering a Lockdown game, the game itself defaults to the Evija, or the best vehicle players currently own. Selecting a vehicle before finding a Lockdown game doesn't seem to matter there. And now we have the Daily and Weekly Challenges not showing like they're supposed to. Kaizen hasn't really updated the game ever since they left for Battlefield, which is why the dailies and weeklies are acting like this. The only times that they do display is when you're already in a game mode and they refresh by midnight. By that point, you're able to do them. But still, I shouldn't have to wait until then during a game to do those! And if I go into a different game mode, they disappear and I can't do them at all until the next time they refresh while I'm already in a game! Oh yeah, and let's not forget the overabundance of AI cops in Hot Pursuit playlists. Need I mention the terrible spawns in those playlists? As well as people getting thrown into a Lockdown game before they have a chance to select their vehicle with crossplay turned on? Specific vehicles in Lockdown not appearing in Lockups like they're supposed to After playing the Lockdown game mode so many times, I decided to ask the community about all the obtainable vehicles in the Lockups specifically. On the NFS Wiki, there's also vehicles that can be obtained in Weekly Rap Rewards. ...Supposedly, that is. Someone in the NFS Discord server responded to my post as well as someone else's post about the Weekly Rap Rewards. And when someone mentioned that a small chunk of cars were supposed to be in Lockups, I got so discouraged after finding out that some of the cars listed in the Weekly Rap Rewards were part of that group. The list of cars that are supposed to appear in Lockups are as follows: -BMW M1 (1981) Legendary Custom -Dodge Charger R/T (1969) Legendary Custom -Ford Crown Victoria (2008) Epic Custom -Ford F150 Raptor (2017) Epic Custom -Land Rover Defender 110 Double Cab Pickup (2015) Legendary Custom -Rudiger's Mercedes-AMG C 63 Cabriolet (2018) -Nissan Silvia K's (1998) Epic Custom, Stage 1 -Nissan Silvia K's (1998) Epic Custom, Stage 4 -Plymouth Barracuda (1970) Epic Custom -Porsche Panamera Turbo (2017) Epic Custom -Bugatti Chiron Sport (2019), Stock -McLaren P1 (2013) Rare Custom (370 Performance Rating) And the Lockdown update said that the vehicle assortment in Lockups would change on a weekly rotation. But, they're nowhere to be found when playing the actual game mode. So this is something that is considered to be bigger. Liveries not saving, being duplicated, and unremovable, also not allowing the color of the car to change This also relates to the Error Code 9 that appears when it says "unable to save" or something. However, this is what I experienced not long before speaking to the agent. So because of a livery I was saving on the Aston Martin Vulcan, the saving was taking too long and I had to restart the game so that I didn't have to wait. When I rebooted the game, the car didn't have the livery equipped. So I went back in and tried to equip it in my Library, only for the livery itself to not only show incorrectly on the car, but also to permanently take up a slot because it was "Already Equipped" (it really wasn't). Then I tried changing the color of the car itself. And while the finish was changeable, the color was not. No matter what I did, the car's color would stay the same. The Hue slider was completely out of order on the Vulcan, and I couldn't make the livery I was going to create for it, leaving me very frustrated and upset. Now the "equipped" liveries are there just to take up space and I can't remove them no matter what I do. I tried everything and nothing seemed to work. The lack of an anti-cheat system In all honesty, I really don't expect this to be addressed at all because EA doesn't have the interest of putting an anti-cheat system into their games on the EA App (all they want is money, let's be real), it would still be good to see like how Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 does it with Easy Anti Cheat for example. I even made a video rant about this, so it goes over some good points, and some random stuff that people probably wouldn't care about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-VnssLbLo Kaizen. I encourage you to address at least the majority of these issues as much as you can. As much as I hate to say it, you guys are clearly not done with Need for Speed Unbound. We want this game to get the fixes we want. Some people may say that these fixes will never come, that I'm being pessimistic towards the team just because they left Unbound for Battlefield, and that they doesn't owe us anything at all. But you know what? Many were expecting Need for Speed Unbound's second year of support to end on a clean slate, only to get a very disappointing last patch to the game. If Kaizen really wanted to make the ultimate Need for Speed experience, they should've put out at least a few more patches to address the issues that are still happening in Unbound before departing! So yes, they DO owe us something! Because if something is not done about these problems ASAP, people will eventually stop caring about Unbound like they are right now! #WeWantNFS
PR difference resisting to move forward.
In the Underground Rivals, It is not fair to have a high PR user to race with a lower PR user. For example My Car's PR was 650 while being on Rank C, however when I select to race I get to race with a rank B user with a PR of 700+. To limit this you can sort the opponent user with a ±20 PR. That's still acceptable. While also checking on the rank. As I mentioned I got to race a Rank B user when I was in rank C. At a certain point it is just impossible to go beyond rank B. Another example, if you see my race history all I've been doing is race a 'Nissan GTR BNR32' which has a higher PR than any other eligible cars. Please suggest how do I get past that level when there are no other competitors. Is this a glitch or the technicians have made the game like this. It is really unfair how the things are turning out to be.
NFS Unbound Crashing – "GetRemovedDeviceReason" DirectX Error
Hi, I'm experiencing consistent crashes while playing Need for Speed Unbound. The game either freezes or crashes to desktop, often with a DirectX-related error mentioning GetRemovedDeviceReason. I’ve seen others face similar problems, but I haven’t found a working solution yet. My system exceeds the recommended requirements, and performance should be smooth. I’ve tried an extensive list of troubleshooting steps, including: Reinstalling the game Repairing the game through EA/Steam Changing all in-game graphics settings (low to ultra) Verifying and reinstalling Visual C++ Redistributables Swapping and testing hardware components Updating BIOS and Windows Checking Event Viewer logs Deleting graphics cache files (like DXCache/NVIDIA folders) Updating GPU drivers (clean install) Updating all other system drivers Checking firewall and security software for interference Reinstalling DirectX (latest version) Despite all of this, the game continues to crash with the same error. I’m happy to provide detailed logs, system information (DxDiag, MSInfo), crash dumps, or anything else that might help resolve the issue. Please let me know how we can proceed—I'd love to get this fixed and enjoy the game without constant interruptions. Thanks, CloudCore9.
Level 5 - Draft Task in the Cop Career does not count
Product: Need for Speed: Unbound Platform:PlayStation 5 Summarize your bug Draft Task Doesn`t count How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? watch the videos and pictures What happens when the bug occurs? The result is not counted. What do you expect to see? Fix this so we can continue our cop careers.
nfs unbound error code f03
I need help with this error code f03 ive deleted save files ive done all i can. I noticed when i redownload need for speed unbound without downloading the add-ons the game loads up with no problem but its no fair ive wasted so much time effort and money for this problem to happen so please EA some help. Can i get atleast a contact number to speak about this problemCar gets stuck in burnout
When I start game for some reason X is not working I have to turn off the controller and turn back on so that the game recognizes the controller. Then when in story mode the car is stuck in burnout, doesn’t allow me to shift gears. I tried in heat as well and it’s the same thing. I not sure is the controller because outside of the game it works perfectly. I using PS5. what can I do?
Level 5 - Draft Task in the Cop Career does not count
Product: Need for Speed: Unbound Platform:PlayStation 5 Summarize your bug Draft Task Doesn`t count How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? watch the videos and pictures What happens when the bug occurs? The result is not counted. What do you expect to see? Fix this so we can continue our cop careers. Product: Need for Speed: Unbound Platform:PlayStation 5 Summarize your bug Draft Task Doesn`t count How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? watch the videos and pictures What happens when the bug occurs? The result is not counted. What do you expect to see? Fix this so we can continue our cop careers. Dear EA team, My friends and I have been stuck on the cop task since yesterday and can't continue because the result doesn't count. So we can't continue our cop career. We've completed this task with all cop vehicles and the result isn't counted for any cop vehicle. You can see that in the videos and pictures. 1 video and 1 picture of me and 1 video of my friend. We tried it in the party, but also as a normal open list, and neither works. But we want to continue our cop career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIl-H1JDTL4&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmHYCzAYXA
Controller Issues
Hey there I'm have been trying some diffrent stuff to make my controller work on NFS Unbound x but idk don't know what to do the controller that I'm using is a PS5 I would like to know if there is a way make it work if out download a 3rd party software and I'm playning on Pc thought the EA app Please can someone help me with is problem.
NFS Unbound crashing - DirectX Error
About every 3 hours the game crashes. Error: DirectX function "GetDeviceRemovedReason". I have a Nvidia graphics card and the latest drivers. I tried clearing the cache in the documents, reinstalling the game, checking the integrity of the game files on steam, nothing helped. Fix your game EA.
Map Is Not Centered On The Player When Opening
Product: Need for Speed: Unbound Platform:PlayStation 5 Summarize your bug Open the map and it isn't always obvious to see where you really are. Sometimes you are even off-the screen. How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1.Go to a e.g, far north-west corner of the map 2. Open the map What happens when the bug occurs? The map is opened in the middle, you actually have to move the view to see yourself What do you expect to see? The map should be centered on the player. It just complicates quickly checking where you are on the map.
Need for speed unbound
I been trying to get online all day. I tried restarting my wife. Unplugging my Ethernet cable plugging back in. Uninstalling and installing the game 3 TIMES. every single time I try to get online this is what I get “Item synchronization failed error code: 80060000 any tips at all I’m at a complete lost and getting really pissed at this point
NFS Frozen Frames & Startup PC
Hi Criterion Team, Thanks for making this game, creating additional DLC & Lockdown. I appreciate you and your fine work. Please note that use of CAPTIALS is done solely for emphasis. My tone of voice is respectful, and simply expressing some frustration. NFS UNBOUND "RARELY WORKS" on PC. 90% of time it wont even start up...from within Steam. Have to manually launch EA app, and wait long time, before it shows game in library, to start NFS. And when it does start, the frames FREEZE, making it impossible to race. Frames freeze and game pauses for 4-8 seconds, the opponents have gained 400 meters or more, when game resumes. Then it keeps itnermittenly freezing, doing this repeatedly. This happens 95% of the time I play. (I've tried lowering graphics settings, lowering framerate, updating EA app, emptying cache, updating BIOS, system clean disk, defrag, re-installed NFS, even reinstalled Windows. But NFS unbound contrinues to run unacceptably. It is literally un-playable 95% of the time.) I have NVIDIA RTX 4080, and NASA PC. STEAM discussions (NFS UNBOUND) are daily filled with 'clients' complaining that the game does NOT even start-up for us. The online community has rapidly diminished, and this game is dying. My steam friends have the same issues and problems, and we want to play, but cannot play. Please patch this. Thank you BTW: I've given this game great reviews, and bought numerous DLC packs. But it is unplayable in the past 5 months.
