NFS 3 HP: Why does NFS3 HP look poor on my up-to-date, fast PC?

[Remko]

NFS 3 Hot Pursuit is an old game (released in October 1998) so many of the 3D accellerated videocards that have been produced since aren’t immediatly recognized, and the game switches to software mode by default. However, in my experience NFS3 will work with many newer cards. What you have to do is to run the 3D setup (accessible from the Start menu or in the 3Dsetup directory, and manually change ‘Software Renderer’ To ‘Direct 3D Device 1’. Then the 3dsetup will throw a warning message at you, saying that this may result in unpredictable behaviour, but generally speaking, this can be ingnored.

See also Machf's page: http://machf.tripod.com/NFS/ for instructions on how to use NFS3 HP with a Geforce 2MX card, and Dr Richard Cranium's page: http://www.smokeypoint.com/3dfx.htm#blondstranger for instructions on how to edit the registry (not for inexperienced users) of your PC in order to run NFS3 with a Voodoo 5 or Ati Radeon card.

[darkspeed]

Hey everone, I got all your troubles solved right here. I'v beed working on a patch for the games graphics, It takes your regular graphics and make them 3x better, and it is simple as 1, 2, 3 to put it on your game. If you want it just download the file below and follow what the read-me says and it should work (if not your computer is really bad).