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How To Disable Motion Blur in NFSMW

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 17:25
by Skyline_man
Hey folks,

Just found a way for disabling the motion blur feature in NFSMW for those who dont like it, and for those who are looking for a few more FPS in the game, so lets go with the steps:


1- Click "Start".
2- Click on "Run"
3- Type "Regedit" - without the " "
4- Browse untill you get that address:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA Games\Need for Speed Most Wanted"
5- you will find "g_MotionBlurEnable"
6- Right click on it, press Modify, and change the value data from 1 to 0.
7- Click "Ok" and exit.

Play the game without Motion Blur :)

Registry files note: DONT mess up with your registry files, just do the steps mentioned above, if you want to get motion blur back, do the same steps with reversing step 6 to "1" again instead of "0"

EDIT: Further to this, it's a GREAT idea to set a System Restore point before you make any registry changes. There's also a menu item in regedit that allows you to make a backup of the entire registry. Be careful. - GT

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 17:33
by korge
Thanks a bunch. :D

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 17:47
by Pabl0z
Nice one! Thanks Skyline_Man!

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 18:23
by Andre_online
Hmmm, I somehow can recall finding about this information earlier, about last week or the week before.

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 18:26
by Ragotech
the game is much faster now thnx

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 18:30
by korge
Skyline man. Post a disclaimer about messing in the registry. If someone screws up their copy of the game it shouldnt be your fault. :P

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 18:38
by Janx14
thx! :D

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 18:50
by Skyline_man
korge wrote:Skyline man. Post a disclaimer about messing in the registry. If someone screws up their copy of the game it shouldnt be your fault. :P
I guess you are right :) , done :wink:

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 20:09
by ^Sparco^
The most useful MW thread ever Image

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 22:50
by Armada
I guess this is off-topic but, is there a way to disable catch up for the career mode?? this would be so frigin sexy :oops: :oops:

Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 23:03
by sigsegv
Oh no, not sexy, but ideal :D. I'm already working with some memory scanners, but seems it's not so easy. And I'm not very good on theese matters :evil: Though, if someone found a way to build a trainer which toogles "never busted" mode, I don't see why this would be impossible.

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 04:07
by xHaZxMaTx
16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem

C:\WINDOWS\system32\regedit.com
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for runningMS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.


WTF does all that mean? :?

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 04:16
by James31278
My game slows down from time to time for some reason, i wish it wouldnt.

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 08:40
by vellu
xHaZxMaTx wrote:16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem

C:\WINDOWS\system32\regedit.com
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for runningMS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.


WTF does all that mean? :?
It means you're trying to run the wrong thing. It should be c:\windows\regedit.exe (just type 'regedit' in the start menus run-section).

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 09:16
by xHaZxMaTx
I did, and that's what came up.

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 09:18
by xHaZxMaTx
Ok, I got it, but another way is to just copy/paste c:\windows\regedit.exe into the address bar.

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 15:40
by Death Ranger
Armada wrote:I guess this is off-topic but, is there a way to disable catch up for the career mode?? this would be so frigin sexy :oops: :oops:
i've seen it before and never really got it, what is catch up anyways?

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 17:23
by xHaZxMaTx
When the other AI players fall WAY behind, they gain crazy amounts of speed to catch up with you... it also slows them down you you are behind.

Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 18:06
by Janx14
^Sparco^ wrote:The most useful MW thread ever Image
yeap! the gam doesnt lag at all for me now, even at 800X600... :shock:

Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 00:00
by Peter Ferrell
What about other features not accessable in the menus? Can those be disabled in a similar way?

Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 01:14
by Skyline_man
Peter Ferrell wrote:What about other features not accessable in the menus? Can those be disabled in a similar way?
you mean the greyed out ones ? the answer is No.

you can remove particles too i guess, i havent done it though.

Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 02:41
by 2furio
Just 2 questions before I attempt this...does it completely remove it or is it more subtle like when you turn off "Visual Treatment" and us there any noticeable improvement in performance?

Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 02:49
by korge
You can reverse the change anytime. There is a noticable visual improvement with the blur off.

Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 03:49
by Peter Ferrell
How so? Do you mean like, it's easier to see? Or more graphics detail?

Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 03:51
by korge
Possible Outcomes:

Faster FPS

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