Hi guys, I hope you're doing well.
If you're not, then it's probably because EA is flipping the bird on you by bricking your entire PC - and all just because you want to enjoy a classic in the Need for Speed franchise.

This guide is here to provide you with a solution that helped me make the game playable again and stopped random freezes and crashes from happening.


Basically, a lot of your PC's general system tasks run on "Processor 0", or "core no. 1".
When you start a game, your PC might assign some of the load to this core as well.
This can cause instabilities as your system tasks fluctuate a lot.
By shifting the workload to your other cores and completely letting this core be, the game runs more stable.
This "fix" can also be applied to other games to maybe not increase frame rate but to keep it more consistent.

Here I'll show you what I did.

• First, start NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered.
  
  
• Then, open your Task Manager (either by right-clicking on the Taskbar or searching it in the Windows-Start-Menu.
  
  
  
• In the Task Manager, click on "Details" (1), then scroll down and find NFS11Remastered.exe
  
  
  
• Rick click, choose "Set Affinity"
  
  
  
• A new window will open. Click on "CPU 0" to untick the box (1), confirm with "OK" (2).
  Leave everything as is.
  

• Fixes the crashing
  
• Lets you enjoy a nostalgic title again
  
• Doesn't take long to execute

• You have to do this every time you start the game, unless you install and configure a program that can automatically set affinities for selected programs (see Fix #2 for this!).

If you don't want to click through the Task Manager every time you want to play NFS HP Remastered, there is another way which involves using third party software.
In this situation I will use a free program called "Process Lasso" - there are other programs on the market which can achieve similar results.

• You can get it here[bitsum.com].
  
  
• After installing, start NFS HP Remastered.
  
  
• Switch to Lasso.
  
  
• Find NFS11Remastered.exe (1), right-click, "CPU Affinity" (2), "Always" (3), click on CPU 0 to untick the box (4).
  
  
• After closing Lasso, it should keep running in the background and should be in your autostart, so whenever you start your PC it starts as well.

• You don't have to click through the Task Manager to play NFS HP Remastered without freezes / crashes
  
• Lets you enjoy a nostalgic title again
  
• Lightweight tool
  
• Only requires 37,5 MB of disk space

• You need to install additional software

Thank you for reading my guide.
The intention of it was to help people who are in a similar situation as I was in. Such a crash caused me to lose my entire save game, having to replay everything again.

I am aware this is just a small fix and it would be infinitely better if EA actually cared and fixed it themselves, but until then we have to help ourselves with methods like this one.

If you enjoyed the guide please leave a Like and a "Favourite", it helps others who have the same struggles see this guide so they can fix it, to quickly get back to playing this cool game.