Product: Need for Speed: Unbound
Platform:PC
Summarize your bug This is a community fix
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? This is a community fix
What happens when the bug occurs? This is a community fix
What do you expect to see? This is a community fix
https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/178f07s/vol5_game_stucks_and_crashes/
I tried & it works like a charm. I can play normally again now (except that Linkups & Boosted Events still don't appear where I'm at. Likely gonna need a VPN & connect to NA/Netherlands/EU for that to work again now) but at least I can do stuff & race now. So hopefully it'll work for you guys as well.
Ok, so the steps are:
1) Make a backup of the whole Unbound folder in My Documents. Put the backup somewhere else.
2) Delete The Unbound folder in My Documents
3) Delete The shadercache folder in Unbound's install directory
4) Manage > Repair the game via EA app
5) Go offline via EA app (the three lines icon on the top left > go offline)
6) Download nfs_hits_cpu90_fix.cmd on here https://github.com/Octanium91/NFS_Heat_CPU_Load_FIX
7) Place nfs_hits_cpu90_fix.cmd in Unbound's install directory, run it & press any key on your keyboard so it can make a config file for your game using information about your processor, this will will enable the GPU to be utilized more & preventing your game from crashing due to overload on the CPU (which is the problem we're having).
8) Go offline and open the game, at the continue screen, exit game and see if an Unbound folder has been created in My Documents, if it has, insert the save you made a backup of from earlier and replace the newly created save (just the savegame folder is fine).
9) Go online via EA app with the same step you did to go offline
10) Launch the game normally. It'll work normally after this & you can just run Unbound as usual without repeating these steps again.
Proof of it working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWCIwmcQruM
