Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

Developers
	EA Seattle
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	EAGL
Release dates
Windows	October 21, 2002

Need for Speed

The Need for Speed	1994
Need for Speed II	1997
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit	1998
Need for Speed: High Stakes	1999
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed	2000
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2	2002
Need for Speed: Underground	2003
Need for Speed: Underground 2	2004
Need for Speed: Most Wanted	2005
Need for Speed: Carbon	2006
Need for Speed: ProStreet	2007
Need for Speed: Undercover	2008
Need for Speed: Shift	2009
Need for Speed: World	2010
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit	2010
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed	2011
Need for Speed: The Run	2011
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)	2012
Need for Speed Rivals	2013
Need for Speed (2016)	2016
Need for Speed Edge	2016

For the prequel, see Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit. For the 2010 game, see Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Key points

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General information

Need for Speed Wiki

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\EA Games\Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\EA Games\Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Stretched by default. Use Old Games Widescreen Patch.
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Windowed

Enable windowed Go to the configuration file(s) location. Edit RenderCaps.ini. Change Fullscreen=1 to Fullscreen=0.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Menu can only be navigated with mouse.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Supports vibration.

To enable Force Feedback on XInput controller, see Force feedback driver.

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Menu Music, Race Music, Player Engine, Sound Effects and Voice sliders.
Surround sound		Stereo, Mono and DS3D/EAX.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	450 MHz Pentium III 500 MHz AMD Athlon	800 MHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Direct3D compatible Video Card 16 MB of VRAM	Direct3D compatible Video Card 32 MB of VRAM