Need for Speed Heat PC Optimization Guide – Fix Crashes, Errors, FPS Drops

In this Need for Speed Heat PC Optimization Guide, we will guide you on how you can optimize Need for Speed Heat to run on your PC. Along with the general optimization, we will also guide you on how you can fix some errors that players have been experiencing while playing NFS Heat on their PC. These errors include DirectX Error, FPS drops, No Audio or Black Screen.

Not all of the errors have been fixed by EA as of now however players from around the world have been trying out different workarounds and surprisingly, they have been working well for them. We have gone online and collected all such errors and their fixes in this handy Need for Speed Heat PC Optimization Guide for you so that you can easily fix potential errors and enjoy this brilliant title in the franchise.

PC Optimization Guide – Need for Speed Heat

Our Need for Speed Heat PC Optimization Guide details everything that you need to know about optimizing your game for running on your PC and fixing different errors.

PC Requirements

Before you start playing Need for Speed Heat on your system, it always good to double-check on your PC to see whether it meets at least the minimum requirements for the game. Also, EA highly recommends Windows 10 and fans who want 1080p at 60fps should be packing some serious power. Check out the requirements below.

Minimum Requirements

• OS: Windows 10
• Processor (AMD): FX-6350 or equivalent
• Processor (Intel): Core i5-3570 or equivalent
• Memory: 8 GB
• Graphics Card (AMD): Radeon 7970/Radeon R9 280x or equivalent
• Graphics Card (Nvidia): GeForce GTX 760 or equivalent
• Direct X: 11
• Online Connection Requirements: 320 KBPS
• Hard Drive Space: 50 GB

Recommended Requirements

• OS: Windows 10
• Processor (AMD): Ryzen 3 1300X or equivalent
• Processor (Intel): Core i7-4790 or equivalent
• Memory: 16 GB
• Graphics Card (AMD): Radeon RX 480 or equivalent
• Graphics Card (Nvidia): GeForce GTX 1060 or equivalent
• Direct X: 11
• Online Connection Requirements: 512 kbps
• Hard Drive Space: 50 GB

Update your Drivers

The most errors players encounter while trying to run their games are because of outdated drivers. You never know that even the device least concerned with running the game but running on outdated drivers could be messing up your game. Before you try to run NFS Heat, make sure that all of the drivers especially your audio, GPU and chipset and fully updated to their latest versions. Both AMD and Nvidia release graphical patches pertaining to specific games so your game errors might disappear by simply updating the graphics of your gaming machine.

Error Fixes

Players have been encountering a lot of errors and glitches while playing their games. Some of the most common errors include DirectX Error, FPS Drops and Game Stuttering, Black Screen with audio and No Audio in their game. We have detailed the possible workarounds for nearly all of the errors below.

No Audio Fix

If your game has no audio or has partial audio meaning that some sections of the game have audio while cutscenes or different elements do not have any audio, it means that your audio driver is misconfigured or is outdated. Try updating your audio driver however if the problem still persists, disable Windows Sonic for Headphones. This has been working for a lot of players around the world.

You can also check the configuration of your sound in the Control Panel to ensure that the correct settings are in place. Sometimes the audio setting might be out of place which might be causing you to hear only partial sounds of the game. Checking the audio control panel and updating your audio driver will fix most of your audio problems automatically.

DirectX Error Fix

This error is common for players who are running older GPUs that do not support the new Windows 10 DirectX. However, players running newer GPUs are also reporting this error and hence it is not just limited to older GPU users. This is basically a technical problem and will only be properly fixed until EA rolls out a patch with the fix. However, all is not doom and gloom for you because you can still try a workaround that has been working for a majority of players out there.

Start the game and head straight to the graphics settings. You need to make sure here that your game is not running at its maximum settings even if your PC is completely capable of running the game at maximum graphics. Lower down a bit and then quit the game. Go to Nvidia Control Panel, click Manage 3D Settings and then choose Program Settings. Choose NFS Heat and the set Vertical Sync to ‘Adaptive Half Refresh-Rate’. Now go back to the game and graphics settings. Disable the V. Sync and now the game will run at flat 30FPS.

Launch Crash Fix

Many players are unable to even run NFS Heat at all as their game crashes right at the start of launching. Since a lot of factors could be in play in this crash, we have a few workarounds that you can try to fix your launch crash for NFS Heat.

Try disabling your anti-virus software. Sometimes the anti-virus starts scanning the exe file as soon as you run the game which causes abnormal behavior and ultimately crashes the game. Also add the game in your Firewall to avoid that annoying Firewall permission screen which could cause crashes in extreme situations as well.

Sometimes your system does not have enough free memory to boot up the game and in return, ends up crashing the system. If you have been using your system for a long time, close all apps and restart your system and then directly launch the game. Make sure that no extra apps are running in the background which could quickly consume a large amount of memory and cause the game to crash abnormally.

Disable any third-party software that came with your GPUs until official patches arrive from the GPU makers or EA which ensure that the drivers are fully compatible with the game. If they are crashing your game, disabling them will allow you to play the game just fine.

Try running the game as an administrator. This might be a last resort fix if you are still unable to run the game after the above-mentioned fixes but depending on your Windows installation, you might not have access to run the game right from the start so to ensure that you have the proper access, right-click on the .exe and click Properties. When the screen opens up, click the option to run the program as an administrator.

Black Screen with Audio

Another error that players experiencing with NFS Heat includes a black screen with running audio in the background. A lot of players are currently experiencing this error. You can easily fix this error by forcing the game to run in Windowed mode and then heading to settings and switching back to full screen.

To do so, after running the game, press Alt+Enter. This will make the game run in Windowed mode. After the game has entered in Windowed mode, you should start seeing the game as well. Now head back to settings and switch back to Full Screen to play the game. This should work for you.

There is another trick that seems to be working for players who Overclock their GPUs or their GPUs might be overclocked from the factory. If you are not getting any display, simply switch to the default speed settings and you should be able to make the game work normally.

Stuttering or Random FPS Drops

Even the console players are experiencing stuttering and FPS drops let alone PC players. Unless EA launched an official patch, you can try to resolve this annoying problem by making sure that your HDDs are in good condition. If you can, try to install the game in an SSD which will speed up the background loading of the game thus improving the framerate of the game.

If your computer is running a lot of programs in the background, chances are that your CPU and memory is having a hard time allocating enough resources at all time to the game which is causing frames to drop at random positions. Before running the game, ensure that all extra software and programs are shut down to ensure that maximum resources are available for the game to run.

Nvidia players can head to Nvidia Control Panel and change the mode for NFS Heat from Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance as well. In the GTX 10 series, this can be done by setting the Vertical Sync to Fast however you must disable the in-game V-Sync to make it work properly. Also, the game must be running in full screen.

Check out other Need for Speed Heat guides below.

• Money Farming Guide
• Car Repair Guide

This concludes our Need for Speed Heat PC Optimization Guide. If you want to add anything to this guide, feel free to use the comments section below.