Need for speed Undercover LAG issues

@Humam2105

You have a couple of issues here. Your Dxdiag shows bluescreen events, Windows Kernel events and a crash of another game.

A few steps to try:

• Run your hardware a stock clock speeds
• You have a decent CPU so the affinity stuff is not necessary
• Run System File Checker to ensure the integrity of your Windows System files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
• Install any available important Windows Updates
• Perform a clean boot before starting the game: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Let us know how you get on after these items, thanks.

I've tried what you suggested, nothing helped me:

• Run your hardware a stock clock speeds
  I'm already.
• You have a decent CPU so the affinity stuff is not necessary
  it was suggested by some people and it worked for them
• Run System File Checker to ensure the integrity of your Windows System files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
  already tried that, yes I have a problem with it (it gave me an error) but I don't think it has anything to do here, because I play the next generation of games normally:
  witcher 3, Nfs most wanted (2012), Left 4 dead 2, killing floor 2, COD: infinite warfare, and so many other games work just fine...
• Install any available important Windows Updates
  regularly do that
• Perform a clean boot before starting the game: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
  I always mess around with msconfig to see if I have anything unusual.

SUMMARY:

My pc is good, and it is running properly, please contact the team responsible for this issue to make an update to the game (because it worked fine on Pentium 4 processors) and now it doesn't work well with newer generations of processors (one thread is maxing out).

I've attached a picture for you to check to know how many people are having the same issues as I am....

btw: it's very hard to convince you guys that there's a problem within the game..

look at these comments of those people PAID for the game and they're not able to play it normally..

if you guys aren't going to fix this, I require a refund because that's something I have the right to do

UPDATE: I tried this game on 3 PCs until now and I'm having the same lag and graphical issues on the 3 PCs...

I talked with a live agent and he said origin isn't responsible for a refund because they simply didn't sell me the game

so I'm stuck with you guys to fix the game for me because me and other people are having the same problem over and over with different PCs

@EA_Barry

When the game lags, does the screen turn bluish? If so, this is a graphics issue with Undercover not being able to keep up, especially in areas with lots of buildings like Palm Harbor.

Some players also reported a game aspect as lag. If you use an analog controller, the game penalizes the player if a car touches something off track, which slows the car down and reduces control inputs for about 1 second or so. Contact with other cars doesn't trigger the slowdown, only contact with stuff like the walls on the side of a track. The slowdown doesn't happen if you use a digital controller, and instead the game tends to speed up the car for a short time. For a digital controller, using the handbrake for a brief moment can also speed up a car (game bug).

There are two patches for Undercover: patch 1.0.1.17, and patch 1.0.1.18. Patch 1.0.1.18 adds a challenge series, which when completed (if all gold), rewards three special tier 1 cars: Dominator Z06, Speed Machine 911, and Battle Machine RX7 . The challenge series can be run before doing career mode, allowing a player to use any of those three special tier 1 cars for career mode.

Getting back to the bluish screen lag issue:

It's possible that patch 1.0.1.17 fixes this. The last patch was 1.0.1.18, but I don't see it at ea downloads.

ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/NFS/Undercover/

http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/NFS/Undercover/

You can do a web search for find patch 1.0.1.18 for Undercover. I have the US version, so my patch is NFSU_v1.0.1.18_enUS.exe.

There is also a registry setting that might help, changing "g_perf", from 0 to 2 may help with the lag.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA Games\Need for Speed Undercover]
"g_PerformanceLevel"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA Games\Need for Speed Undercover]
"g_PerformanceLevel"=dword:00000002

The patches and/or the g_perf... changes fixed the bluish screen lag, which I now only get if I'm recording using something like fraps.

It has always had this problem of lag and freezing up.It is not your rig it is the game and  it freezes up when you want  to tune you car up like tune up the tires or body kits.It all freezes up on you.It has always probably on the PC version.The patch is no good as some pursuit barriers are missing and it the whole car stats are wrong.This game needs a big fix which it has yet to get.It was just a rushed game by EA on Part of Black Box.

I am a Veteran player of NFS.I retired after World went down as the car stats could never be fixed played it when it went live and stopped when the servers went down,

There really needs to be a good fix for  Undercover.

your solution didn't work.. as for all the solutions .. problem persists and i don't think EA cares enough about this...

Assuming your system has a dvd reader (probably reader/writer), and if you are not running Windows 10, I recommend buying the original EA DVD version of Undercover, which is less than $10 at online stores like Amazon, but new copies will be getting scarce soon. With the EA DVD version, the graphical lag issue was fixed with patch 1.0.1.17 or better still patch 1.0.1.18 which also adds the challenge series which includes 3 special tier 1 cars you can use. It appears that EA shutdown their ftp and http sites that had the patches, so you'll need to do a web search to find and download patch 1.0.1.18.