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Today's tutorial, is to how the hell play Need for Speed Most Wanted online!
Before starting.
Make sure you have Need for Speed™ Most Wanted (1.3 or "Black Edition" reccomended) installed properly!
Step one.
The magic.
The secret is, we need this magic app called Gameranger, let's DOWNLOAD it!
Install it. And now, we need to create an account!
Step two
Setting up your account.
1. Agree to the terms of service.
2. Write down your e-mail(must be valid for activation), and password.
3. Your Nickname and real Name (doesn't matter if not real)
4. Now you have to activate your account, visit you email and check your inbox.
Visit the activation url and it will be alright.
The app should log-in instantly and the main menu pop-up.
There are two main tabs - Game rooms, and Friends
You need to set up the game rooms for games that you have installed.
Also make sure you have some friends to play with by adding them either searching, or right-clicking on a person in the room.
Step three.
Joining the game.
There are two options to get the game going:
One, simply Joining a room, or two, - Hosting.
1. Which rooms can you join?
- The rooms that are not full and not in process. Maximum players per room in NFS MW is 4. Yes, sorry.
Look closely, if the room has a lock on it, it means you need a password. And if theres a green dot on the far right - it means the session has already started and you can't join it.
When you do join, heres what to do:
1. go to LAN Play
2. Let the search find the host's server
3. Go to "Sesson match" to search for race
4. Join the host's race
5. Rock'n'Roll
6. Repeat #5 for eternity.
Tip: If a game room is blue color, it means theres someone from your friends list playing there. Good way to find friends online!
2. Hosting a game.
By hosting, you take the full control of the room.
So you set up a room as you like, and when some people join, you hit "start".
It takes you straight to the game and heres what you need to do then:
1. go to LAN Play
2. Cancer the search and make your own server "use - 1"
3. Quickly create a game
4. Wait for others to join
5. Rock'n'Roll
6. Repeat #5 for eternity.
Troubleshooting:
There's only one problem I've encountered and it's a game crash when starting a race on Windows 7 x64.
Here's what to do to get everything fixed up:
Right-Click on the Gameranger.exe or shortcut, go to compatibility tab, set it to Windows XP SP3, and turn on the Administrator privilleges to start it.
There, that should do the trick.
Now what are you waiting for??? Also, don't forget to add me (IGnoTon) when youre ready to rock!!
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