Forum Discussion

BrNcO55's avatar
BrNcO55
6 years ago
Solved

Need for speed Undercover crashing after choosing profile

Hello, I just bought Need for speed Undercover but its not working... First I couldnt start the game because of "There seems to be a problem contacting the license server." but I resolved this proble...
  • reece394's avatar
    reece394
    6 years ago

    Nope you have to do it that way. Trust me I diagnosed the issue trying all sorts including setting core affinity and the only way it works is if you completely disable the CPU cores. With modern computers and SSDs it is a minor inconvenience as it takes less than 30 seconds at least for me to apply those settings and reboot. 

BrNcO55's avatar
BrNcO55
6 years ago

Well problem is that I traded my origin key from a friend and who knows where did he get it. Like the price is not bothering me (it costed me like 2,50€) but I rly wanted to play it (I was playing it years ago when it was new but I sold my DvD version so I wanted to buy it again). Shame that it can not be fixed. Looks like I wont be buying any more games from origin if their support for older games is like this :/

reece394's avatar
reece394
6 years ago

Try this fix. If you have more than a 4 core processor with hyperthreading the Origin version of the game crashes. To bypass this issue for now go to the start menu and type in MSCONFIG.EXE and a System Configuration window should appear go to the second tab called boot and select advanced options. Then you should see Number of Processors. Check that box and select 8 (If this does not work try again with 4) and restart and try launching it. It worked for me! To reverse the changes follow all the above apart from when you get to number of processors uncheck the box and restart or else you won't get your full computers performance. Hopefully it works for you

  • BrNcO55's avatar
    BrNcO55
    6 years ago

    That might work but restarting PC everytime I want to play NFS or something else after :D What about som simple bat file to set cpu affinity for 4 cores directly for NFS.exe? Will it work?

    • reece394's avatar
      reece394
      6 years ago

      Nope you have to do it that way. Trust me I diagnosed the issue trying all sorts including setting core affinity and the only way it works is if you completely disable the CPU cores. With modern computers and SSDs it is a minor inconvenience as it takes less than 30 seconds at least for me to apply those settings and reboot. 

      • BrNcO55's avatar
        BrNcO55
        6 years ago

        Okey I tested it and didnt work :D Okey thank you for your work on this issue 🙂 I will use your methode to play. Thank you again 🙂

About NEED FOR SPEED™ Franchise Discussion

Have you played any other Need for Speed games in the franchise? Tell us about your experience on the community forum.30,145 PostsLatest Activity: 9 hours ago