Shift always restarts with default settings , Cant change graphics

[MEAN MACHINE]

This is just stupid ... I enter the game , change the settings .
Then the game says that i have to restart .
And when it restarts the settings are default ...
This is a real problem and i want my money back .
I will not play the game like this ... is freaking awful

[Ð乇ｷ乇ζЦ乇Ð]

Yeah. Did you find a fix?

[MEAN MACHINE]

No i didn´t .
Someone was saying that after the first race you could change it .
But it´s a lie .
Done a couple of races already , and could never change it .
Everytime it restarts settings are the same .
Real poor graphics for me ... I refuse to play a game like this .
Steam does not have a solution , neither they traied to find one .
They didn´t reply to my complain yet .

[MEAN MACHINE]

I think i figured it out ... Sort off ...
What kind of Graphic card are you running ???
I´m using Nvidia , these cards have an option on the driver itself ,
to determine the frame rate and vsync .
So what i did was :
Went to Nvidia control panel , in the section " Manage 3D Options "
and selected the NFS Shift game .
Then , i turned vsync off and the frame rate to the max .
Now , and this is the thing ,
i entered the game and choose the highest graphics settings but at 120Hz .
If you try to chose any of the 144Hz resolution options ,
when you restart the game , it will revert to normal settings .
Don´t forget to also turn off vsync in the game .
After all the changes have been made and before restarting the game ,
you must go down the game menu and save it .
I use MSI Afterburner , and besides all the cool stuff it can do ,
it also gives me a real time OSD with FPS information an latency ,
I was able the confirm that the frame rate was completly free and didn´t cap at 120 Hz .

I don´t know how to this stuff works with AMD cards but i´m sure it won´t be much diferent.
Hope it works for you ... ;)

[Ð乇ｷ乇ζЦ乇Ð]

Originally posted by MEAN MACHINE:

I think i figured it out ... Sort off ...
What kind of Graphic card are you running ???
I´m using Nvidia , these cards have an option on the driver itself ,
to determine the frame rate and vsync .
So what i did was :
Went to Nvidia control panel , in the section " Manage 3D Options "
and selected the NFS Shift game .
Then , i turned vsync off and the frame rate to the max .
Now , and this is the thing ,
i entered the game and choose the highest graphics settings but at 120Hz .
If you try to chose any of the 144Hz resolution options ,
when you restart the game , it will revert to normal settings .
Don´t forget to also turn off vsync in the game .
After all the changes have been made and before restarting the game ,
you must go down the game menu and save it .
I use MSI Afterburner , and besides all the cool stuff it can do ,
it also gives me a real time OSD with FPS information an latency ,
I was able the confirm that the frame rate was completly free and didn´t cap at 120 Hz .

I don´t know how to this stuff works with AMD cards but i´m sure it won´t be much diferent.
Hope it works for you ... ;)

Wait there is a save option in the menus? Also use GTX780 ti superclocked.

[MEAN MACHINE]

Great , you should be able do the exact same thing .
To find the save , just search your game menu in options and you´ll find it .

[Ð乇ｷ乇ζЦ乇Ð]

Okay so it worked for me. Setup the settings and save. PLay one race then save again. Close game and open. Settings saved.

[MEAN MACHINE]

Great ... Also try not to use vsync when you play .
Most of the time , only adds latency and with this type of monitors you won´t need it so much as with 60Hz ones .
;)

[Dankk]

This game absolutely REFUSES to save my graphics settings. I've tried several different combinations of changing the settings, saving, restarting, changing the settings again, saving, playing a race, quitting, restarting, changing the settings again... it doesn't matter.

I've even tried deleting my entire save folder, letting it re-generate, and also taking the graphics settings config XML, and setting it to "Read Only". It doesn't matter though. This god-forsaken game absolutely refuses to let me use the settings I want. What a dumpster fire.

[Dankk]

Nevermind, I'm dumb. I missed the part of your comment where you said that the 144Hz options are completely broken.

I set the graphics settings the way I wanted them, but with 120Hz instead of 144Hz (and Vsync turned off). Did a manual save, did a race, did another manual save, and then rebooted the game. Finally, the game is fixed (sheesh).

I can also confirm that, despite selecting 120Hz in the options, the framerate appears to be truly uncapped. Thanks so much for reporting this fix.

[Stratos]

Yup, 144hz is broken. 120 works fine. In my case even "quick" sync in nvidia options works.