Input lag is the reason why the driving physics feel off

[Mati Blaster]

I bought Most Wanted 2012 on December 31st 2019 on Origin on a sale. I always thought that driving physics felt off. I wasn't able to drive smoothly and avoiding traffic was a problem, I tried both keyboard and controller, Xbox One controller to be exact. I beat the entire Most Wanted list and then I quit the game beacuse I couldn't get gold on speedruns of Bugatti Veyron and Koenigsegg Agera and just played the original MW instead.

But in Febuary 2022, I've got an urge to revisit Most Wanted 2012. I found out that the PC version has an input lag issue, then I realized that driving feels off beacuse the inputs are indeed delayed, making the controls unresponsive. I always played the game on low graphics settings and with Nvidia's Low Latency Mode on Ultra but that wasn't enough to eliminate the delay. Luckily I found another fix.

I found a config file. It's located in Documents > Criterion Games > Need for Speed(TM) Most Wanted and it's called "config.NFS13Save". I opened it in Notepad, found "VsyncInterval" and changed its value to 0. And that helped. Controls finally feel responsive and without the delay and now I'm having a blast playing this game. I'm playing on keyboard. In arcade racers, tapping keys allows me for a better car control than using the analog stick.

If you're going to buy Most Wanted 2012, keep in mind that you can have delayed and unresponsive controls. Just do as I did, modify the config file in Documents, use all latency reducing settings on your graphics card and problem should be fixed.

If that still didn't help, this Reddit post provides a few more solutions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/hljwhm/nfs_most_wanted_2012_input_lag_fix_for_pc/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[SAY GEX]

Could you tell me if it is in a specific folder? I can't find the file 'config.NFS13Save'

[Mati Blaster]

Originally posted by Shakespearicles:

Could you tell me if it is in a specific folder? I can't find the file 'config.NFS13Save'

It's not in the specific folder, it's in the directory I mentioned above

[hatsunable]

Oh my it's so much easier now thanks. I will never understand why Criterion thought delaying the player's input on purpose was a good idea.

[Lumiquis]

Always thought this was on purpose to give the feeling of driving a car, like the weight of it, its nice to have a fix

[Dardanel]

After using your technique the game started to have slight screen-tearing at high speeds do you have any solution to that?

[Mati Blaster]

Originally posted by Dardanel:

After using your technique the game started to have slight screen-tearing at high speeds do you have any solution to that?

You pretty much disabled the vertical sync so it's understandable to have screen tearing. I don't have any solution to this unfortunately.

[bridge to depression]

[moose_surgeon]

Thank you OP! This completely saved the experience for me!

[kucing_ganteng]

before editing the game, you better "overclock' your controller to 1000hz. this fix input lag on all games for me, there is a little software called hidusbf.zip from lordofmice on github