{"id":8867,"date":"2010-12-06T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"criterion-tuning-up-next-need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-pc-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8867-criterion-tuning-up-next-need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-pc-patch","title":{"rendered":"Criterion tuning up next Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit PC patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After pushing out a patch for the game last week, Criterion is already busy with a second Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit PC update. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needforspeed.com\/post\/need-speed-hot-pursuit-2-pc-patch-2\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Criterion official blog\">official blog<\/a>, it&rsquo;s all that &ldquo;really nitty-gritty, picky stuff that make the difference between a good game, and a great one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t work out why the fix list doesn&rsquo;t include bolt-on rocket turrets or robot unicorns. It does, however, include the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Groundcover Graphical Errors: When alt-tabbing, the groundcover would start to corrupt, causing random tree images to appear all over the screen.<br \/>&#8211; Controller Configurations: On some machines controller configurations that have been set up for wheels, pads, etc are not saving correctly to a configuration file. This is now fixed.<br \/>&#8211; Rare crash when entering the Career map screen: The game sometimes crashes when entering the Career map screen quickly after booting the game.<br \/>&#8211; Rare crash when streaming graphical data.<br \/>&#8211; Steering response reported as having large dead zone.<br \/>&#8211; Player car engine volume too low.<br \/>&#8211; Event selection crashes affecting players with AMD \/ ATI Radeon graphics cards who have overridden the game&rsquo;s AA settings.<\/p>\n<p>No patch release date has been set, but the nice people over at Criterion have promised to let everybody know whenever that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual corruptions, controller config issues, and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}