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Revision as of 14:39, 20 August 2014

Shift 2 Unleashed
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Developers
Slightly Mad Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Madness Engine
Release dates
Windows March 29, 2011
Shift 2 Unleashed on Wikipedia
The Need for Speed 1994
Need for Speed II 1997
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (series)
Need for Speed: High Stakes 1999
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed 2000
Need for Speed: Underground (series)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (series)
Need for Speed: Carbon 2006
Need for Speed: ProStreet 2007
Need for Speed: Undercover 2008
Need for Speed: Shift (series)
Need for Speed: World 2010
Need for Speed: The Run 2011
Need for Speed Rivals 2013
Need for Speed (2016) 2016
Need for Speed Payback 2017
Need for Speed: Edge 2017
Need for Speed Heat 2019
Need for Speed Unbound 2022

General information

Need for Speed Wiki
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Uses TAGES Solidshield with a 5 machine activation limit. Requires account activation through EA servers.

DLC

The PC DLC Pack for all editions of the game is available on Origin for free.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

General settings

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/47920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/47920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics settings

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Input settings

Control settings
Advanced Control settings

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Input lag where you steer but the car doesn't respond for a significant amount of time can be resolved by changing the DampeningEnabled="1" string to "0" in vehicleset_pc_custom_pad.xml and reselecting the "Custom" controller scheme in game.

Audio settings

Audio settings

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Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

A poster on No Grip Racing details numerous fixes for a number of problems here.

Should it be deleted, the text of the post is as follows:

Issues:

  • Low graphics quality
  • Low FPS and stutters
  • Input lag
  • Poor FFB
  • Cars feel like floating instead of driving on asphalt
  • AA not working
  • Settings (car set-up, graphics) do not stick

Solutions:

  • Force AF to 16x through the gfx card driver
  • http://www.overclock.net/ati/979202-shift-2-performance-fixes.html#post12952722
  • Edit DampeningEnabled="1" string to "0" in vehicleset_pc_custom_pad.xml and reselect controller scheme in game (to custom pad of course). Should work with custom wheel file as well. Disbale 'Allow Game To Adjust Settings' in Logitech Profiler.
  • FFB is different for sure in Shift 2. The one thing really missing is tyre grip in the FFB.
  • This is mostly caused by the default set-ups being very loose. See this thread for how to tweak set-ups for more responsive handling.
  • Apparently AA in S2U is software-based that makes the 'classic' AA not work. With ATI cards, you can enable Morphological Filtering in the driver, this gives good AA but comes with a huge performance drop. For nVidia cards, read this thread.
  • To save a set-up, use the Shift button. However, there seems to be a bug in the game that reverts changed values to their old values.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) NVidia GeForce 8 Series
ATI HD3000 Series
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


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