NFS Bugs (For PC)

I have same problem on i7 6700hq 2.6ghz / 16go ddr4 / gtx970m 3go gddr5..... unbelievable, everytime on the highway (orange road on map)....

i have enough power, enough ram, nor programs at all running.... every time when I drive fast the map can't load. and i have to stop the car to load the map..... unbelievable, 

my computer is new and clear as hell ^^  its not a problem of SSD i think, its the game that needs to be patched

i dont have loading problems but i do get some fps drops to 30 or so from 60+ with a 980ti at ultra settings on the highway

so it's an optimization problem on all the highway zones may be.... same on ps4 and one i saw it and they patched it 

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@Rhexamos wrote:

Hey,

Your GPU card is a bit below the minimum requirements BUT don't lose hope :P. I've played many games with a spec below their minimum requirements, the only thing that I had to do is clean my PC a bit from bloatware.

There are many things that can cause this. It can even be the HDD the game is installed on. The game has not enough computing resources to render your game in time, that's why the road is not streaming fast enough. Try some of these tips, it may fix your problem (and make your PC run faster).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/improve-computers-performance#1TC=windows-7

http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-Computer-Speed-Performance

Advice for min specs: try to get an SSD, it will boost your PC considerably, its like magic 🙂

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Hey, thanks for the concise reply. I do believe my GPU is definitely above minimum specs though, because I can run the game at medium quality at constant 60fps at 1440x900 res. Also, it probably is the result of the game not being optimised ENOUGH, due to it's new release in PC, as I've never encountered such a problem for a long time in modern games.

Oh yes, I don't have an SSD as you said, will look into getting one soon enough :P Though I don't think that's the problem, still.

Edit: Almost constant 60 fps, occasional very noticeable fps drops.

I have a fairly decent PC (Core i7-4770K, 16 GB, GTX 980 Ti, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit) and got this trial through EA Access. I am using the latest v364.51 drivers for my graphics card.

However, I am experiencing numerous issues with the game from excessively long loading times of 2-3 minutes at the start and then another minute to leave the garage and start driving. On top of that the game is having serious texture and geometry streaming issues... I can see the textures literally drawing in for 15-20 seconds after a load and have FIVE TIMES fallen through the road into nothingness (three times in the same spot!) while driving to an event using the marked route.

Finally, performance is pretty abysmal considering how little is going on. The game mostly holds 60 fps on maxed out settings with TAA at 2560x1440 but does dip to 56/57 fps when just racing around solo. Considering how little traffic there is at this point it's disappointing to say the least. In a race the performance can dip to 35-40 fps if more than two other cars are on-screen and generally hovers around 45 fps if there's one in front of me.

Admittedly the game does look nice but when you have an empty city like this then there's really no excuse for not running better, especially taking into account the other issues I am having. It is certainly putting me off buying the full game.

Yes, the game is installed to a 2 TB Seagate 7,200 rpm hard drive and not an SSD but I have no such issues with other games that stream from that same drive such as Star Wars: Battlefront (which uses this same engine), The Witcher 3, Far Cry Primal or Tom Clancy's The Division so the problem is definitely not with the game not the drive. Nor is it the game files because I have twice done the Repair thing and it came back with no reported errors.

i also notices taa makes things blury like license plate etcs

I believe I have fixed all of my issues now as I've just played the game for well over 90 minutes without a single issue: performance was mostly solid even with 5 other cars on-screen holding 60 fps more often than not (only occasionally dipping to 52 fps intermittently from time to time), I have not been able to replicate the falling-through-the-road glitch despite using nitrous and loading times are now very quick after the one minute initial load. It takes around 6 seconds to switch between the garage and game now.

How did I fix it?

Well, on my system, I have Windows installed on an SSD. I have my games installed on 7,200 rpm mechanical hard drives that are obviously not as fast as an SSD but are still generally fine in terms of loading times (one of these drives is a 3 TB Western Digital Back). As the SSD is the fastest drive and I have 16 GB of memory, I thought I would only have a system managed pagefile on that and turned off the ones on the other slower hard drives. Well, it looks like this game has issues if you do that so I just re-enabled system managed pagefiles on all the other hard drives and that seems to have resolved the issue for me.

It may not fix the issue for everyone as they may already have these pagefiles but it seems to have done the trick for me so it is something worth checking IMO if you are experiencing this issue.

The game is still not perfect though: the engine hitches/stutters every couple of minutes (perhaps related to the streaming?) and shadow detail noticeably draw in at close range plus the transition between night and dusk/different kinds of weather is rather abrupt and unnatural looking (kind of unsurprising when this game has no actual daylight cycle). Finally, the city itself feels post-apocalyptic and devoid of life due to the lack of pedestrians and other traffic. Considering how Midnight Club: Los Angeles did this kind of thing over seven years ago with full day/night cycles, c-ockpit view (conspicuously missing here), pedestrians, 5X the traffic density and real-time cutscenes (not the cheesy FMV we get in this game), etc, etc, it's hard not to be a bit disappointed. Sure the game looks beautiful and closer to photo-realism but that all falls on its head due to the fact that the place you race around does not feel real.

A good game though but not a great one. Fun but ultimately flawed, like all of EA's recent NFS output.