After the first PC-Patch for Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, which addressed problems with Multicore CPUs and weather effects, now the next patch is in the works!

The following issues will be resolved with the next patch:

Groundcover Graphical Errors
When alt-tabbing, the groundcover would start to corrupt, causing random tree images to appear all over the screen.

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.

Rare crash when entering the Career map screen
The game sometimes crashes when entering the Career map screen quickly after booting the game.

Rare crash when streaming graphical data
Fixed.

Steering response reported as having large dead zone
There was a deadzone. This is now fixed.

Player car engine volume too low

There remains an outstanding crash affecting players with AMD / ATI Radeon graphics cards if they have over-written the AA settings in the control centre. This occurs as you pick an event in the map screen prior to the car select.

Thankfully our friends at AMD/ATI have informed us that this will be fixed in the next release of AMD's drivers (10.12) around the second week of December.

Many thanks to the PC users who have reported problems and who have helped us investigate them further. We will update again when we know when the patch is likely to be with you all. If you find that you are having problems that are not addressed here or in the FAQ, please let us know by visiting bugzilla.criteriongames.com/pc/.

Source: NFS-Planet

...NFS HP YEAH

Due to the terrible amount of applicants (only 3 wanted a free game) we will close the contest now. We will only be giving away 1 free game instead of the planned 2 because we were expecting a lot of people to be applying. We picked the names of the applicants from a hat and this was the order:

1. NFS HP YEAH
2. Reilsss
3. NFS: Hot Pursuit BEST GAME.

Matt Follett, designer at Criterion Games, and in-house car expert, gives you insight into the cars you'll be driving as a cop or a racer in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. Each car is in the game for a reason, and Matt will list some of those reasons, so make sure to give this video a listen!

HD Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Th34ny5qMk&hd=1
SD Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Th34ny5qMk

If you've got Need for Speed Hot Pursuit for PC be sure to download the first patch, which is live now!

Patch notes here:
http://hotpursuit.needforspeed.com/post/need-speed-hot-pursuit-pc-patch-1

Direct download:
http://www.needforspeed.com/dl/0/17677

Thanks to everyone who has helped us track down the problems that have been heavily reported on these forums.

I'm pleased to be able to update you on the patch that will be forthcoming early next week.

*Mulit-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.

Once again, thanks to all the players who helped us track down and identify the problem. We'll detail exactly when the patch will be available as soon as we can. As I said, it's likely to be early next week, but we need to go through the testing and certification systems that are in place prior to release.

Source: Criterion Games