Performance Most Wanted

I waited for the patch that never came so I raced on without it. In spite of severe performance issues on my desktop PC, I beat the #1 most wanted racer in Criterion Game's Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012, PC) in just shy of 21 hours. The game is good racing fun, though it doesn't have the much of the silliness of Burnout: Paradise.

It is an extreme disappointment that the game does not work properly on my PC even after patches that were supposed to address frame rate issues. During a race, the game would stutter horribly or out right freeze before sending my car straight in to a wall. The frustrating part is that the game can run fine in certain areas or under certain circumstances. I don't know if it's a problem on my end or somewhere else. What I do know is that Burnout: Paradise (PC) performs wonderfully and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PC) plays fine, so it is sad that Most Wanted performs so poorly.

Recently, Criterion Games has shown off the Need for Speed: Most Wanted U for the Nintendo Wii U and that version of the game looks very good. Perhaps I will pick up that version for cheap when I get a Wii U a year or a few years from now.