The team is "actually intrigued" how the game "works at all" after they investigated the issue. Missing weather effects have been sorted out too.
"I'm pleased to be able to update you on the patch that will be forthcoming early next week," posted developer Criterion on the official Need for Speed forums. They thank players for their feedback but don't have a more precise date. Here's what they fixed:
- Multi-Core CPU's
We've now located and fixed the problem that players were reporting where the game would crash on Car Select, Map Screen, Loading screen or just at the start of an event. Interestingly we're actually intrigued that the game works at all after our investigations with the problem actually manifesting itself in code that we shipped as part of Burnout Paradise.
We've also taken the opportunity to address a couple of other reported problems.
- Missing Rain / Snow and Corona effects
This have been fixed
- CL Eye Driver crashing the game on startup
Fixed.
- Corrupted Dreamshots in non 16:9 aspect ratios
Fixed.
- We've also added D-BOX motion chair support.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC last week.
