The problem is Ram accsess, the is an option in you Bios (Windows XP/Vista/7/8) called shadow ram this feture allows information to be kept on the ram when useing high demanding applications, it's use to recall information rather than load it again, The NFS game uses this to make loading timess faster but, it has an error of failing to get the texture updates correctly, this means that the road texture is on the Ram ready to be loaded but it actually stops it because of the shadow ram feature, if you turn it off, then the game will get its load from the Hardrive and store less of it on your Ram, If your system is useing an SSD then the game will be perfect, Just remember that when this feture is of you may find that high demanding games with take a longer time to load.
Hope this works as it did for me, it helps to have 2 or more GB of Video Ram for this game
@MurukanN
It doesn't help me ☹️
@theangrychild1
Is it possible to disable the shadow ram only for NFS Rivals? I don't want every time I wanted to play in the NFS, disable it in the BIOS.
Is EA knows about this error? Do they try to fix it?
Sorry for my english.
@ MurukanN:
I have a 64bit system and start the game with the 64bit exe, so I don't think, that's the problem.
What @theangrychild1 says sounds plausible, but - according to my Google search - the only way to disable Shadow RAM is messing with the BIOS and I don't want to do that.
I am a bit disappointed, that such a game breaking bug is still in the game, even though it's known for over a year. And it's not like this bug doesn't occur that often. In my first 3 hours of playing Rivals my game froze/crashed 2 times.
I really hope this can be fixed, since in my opinion Rivals is a great game, which is also the only reason I'm still playing it, even though it crashes often.
Same problem here. The funny thing is: its a racing game, but we cant go fast .-.
8gb 1600mhz hyperx
15 4460
gigab gtx 970
western dig 1tb HD
probably not my fault....
I contacted with EA and they advised me:
1. Make sure you've downloaded the latest drivers for your card and the NVIDIA Control Panel.
2. Right-click any free area of your desktop and select “NVIDIA Control Panel.”
3. Under the "3D Settings" group on the left-hand side of the NVIDIA Control Panel, click “Manage 3D Settings.”
4. Open the Program Settings tab in the Manage 3D Settings menu and click the Add button.
5. Browse to the .exe of the game you'd like to make a profile for.
For example, with FIFA 15 you'd select "fifa.exe" within C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\ fifa 15\Game.
6. Click Add Selected Program, then find Power management mode in the drop down menu and set it to Prefer maximum performance.
After an hour of the game, I have not noticed any error and frozen car.
My graphics card is a GTX 770.
Sorry for my english.
