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6 years ago

SHIFT 2 UNLEASHED Crashes on Windows 10 64 Bit(Origin)

Hi! I purchased the NFS Shift 2 Unleashed to play on a new Windows 10 64 Bit PC. My GPU is a MSI Gaming Radeon RX 570 256-bit 8GB.

When i run the game from the Origin platform, i can go through the intro or play around with the options. But as soon as i select,'Career' the game crashes and i return to the Origin home page.

All my other games work just fine. I already selected repairing the game but that did not fix anything. 

Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help 🙂

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  • NFS Shift Crash Fix

    1 ) Nvidia PhysX seems to be one of the reasons why the game crashes, even if you have the latest version. To fix this, insert the NFS shift CD, look for the PhysX folder and install it.

    2 ) In settings choose the controller device preset that you are using (it might be set to Xbox controller)

    3 ) Graphic settings might be causing the problem. In this case open the folder C:\users\yourusername\documents\NFS SHIFT\

    Delete the graphicsconfig.xml file located in this folder. Restart game and try if its fixed.

    4 ) Turn of SLI or Xfire if your computer is using it.

    5 ) If it still doesn’t work you will have to play on low resolution and details using the method given below.

    Again open C:\users\yourusername\documents\NFS SHIFT\

    Open the file graphicsconfig.xml in Notepad (open Notepad, drag and drop the file into it). Edit the file and replace the contents with the following.

    ?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
    <Reflection>
    <class name=”BRTTIRefCount” base=”root class” />
    <class name=”BPersistent” base=”BRTTIRefCount”>
    <prop name=”Name” type=”String” />
    </class>
    <class name=”GraphicConfigData” base=”BPersistent”>
    <prop name=”Mode” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”Vsync” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”Windowed” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”TextureFilter” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”TextureResolution” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”Brightness” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”CarDetailLevel” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”TrackDetailLevel” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”ShadowDetailLevel” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”MotionblurLevel” type=”Fct” />
    <prop name=”EffectsDetailLevel” type=”Fct” />
    </class>
    <data id=”0xBB11E0″>
    <prop name=”Name” data=”” />
    <prop name=”Mode” adapter=”0″ width=”1024″ height=”768″ antialias=”8″ refresh=”75″ />
    <prop name=”Vsync” vsync=”0″ />
    <prop name=”Windowed” windowed=”0″ />
    <prop name=”TextureFilter” texturefilter=”0″ />
    <prop name=”TextureResolution” textureresolution=”0″ />
    <prop name=”Brightness” brightness=”10″ />
    <prop name=”CarDetailLevel” cardetaillevel=”0″ />
    <prop name=”TrackDetailLevel” trackdetaillevel=”0″ />
    <prop name=”ShadowDetailLevel” shadowdetaillevel=”0″ />
    <prop name=”MotionblurLevel” motionblurLevel=”0″ />
    <prop name=”EffectsDetailLevel” effectsdetaillevel=”2″ />
    </data>
    </Reflection>

    This should fix the crashes as  did it on my azure windows virtual desktop. Once the game is up and running, try changing the settings in the game till you find a good balance. 

  • To make a long story short I got the game to run with starting error at track load, at first there were no indication of reason for closing, I was using the downloaded version from Origin, I had installed the game from a bought CD originally but origin said it was already used, but it had worked. The downloaded Origin closed at start of race loading. Origin check for errors etc did not work. So I installed the CD version again and I got an error about needing file physXLoader.dll Having a geforce card this file was not in my /NVIDIA Corporation/PhySX/common folder like it was in another computer so I copied both physXLoader.dll and physXLoader64.dll to the other computer and it worked! I think Origin needs to update their install of this game. Win10. I noticed in another thread that a player had got a simular fix with the physX to work with a Radeon card.

  • Core4545's avatar
    Core4545
    4 years ago
    @AdrianG0011 I dont know what to i tried your last method.
    I want to try your first method but what do you mean by install the cd key???
  • Core4545's avatar
    Core4545
    4 years ago

    I dont know what to i tried your last method.
    I want to try your first method but what do you mean by install the cd key???

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