How to Run NFS Most Wanted Full Screen

Generally when you tries to run Need For Speed Most Wanted on a widescreen laptop or PC which has a screen resolution above 1024 x 768 , it'll not display full screen rather some blank spaces on either soide of the screen like shown in the screenshot. The problem is NFS most Wanted game is a bit old and it does not support wide screen resolutions. Maximum native resolution support for NFSMW is 1024 x 768. Even if you have a wider display resolution, the program doesn't recognize it and it continues to run square. 

However the game natively support the widescreen resolutions by default, a launcher application is available to force the game to run in desired resolution. All you want to do is the following simple steps.

• Download NFS-MW launcher  (10 KB)
• Extract the contents of the rar file into the installed game directory. (nfsmwres.ini and nfsmw.exe)
• Double click on nfsmw.exe, type the resolution in the boxes (1366x768). To know your display resolution , right click on the desktop and click Screen Resolution.

• Select the game version demo/v1.2/v1.3 (usually 1.3)
• Click Launch to run the game. enjoy!

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Solution - Games not Detecting NVIDIA in Dell XPS

Few games like GTA IV, may not detect the installed drivers of your NVIDIA graphics card. When you start the game, it'll show the intel integrated graphics as the only resource with 59MB video memory while actually you have the NVIDIA GT -540M /525 M with dedicated 2 GB/ 1GB video memory . I've faced this problem on my dell XPS 15, while playing GTA 4, certainly it's very disappointing to stay with crappy graphics in a gaming laptop like XPS.

I don't want to stretch more, but here's the working solution for this problem. There's not many complicated things to do. All you have to do this is to go to NVIDIA website and download the latest driver.

Steps:

• Click here to go to download page  
• On the website, under Manually find drivers for my NVIDIA products, fill the following data.

1. Product type: GeForce
2. Product Series:  GeForce 500M series (notebooks)
3. Product: GeForce GT 540M/525M
4. Operating system : Windows 7 (64 bit)
5. Language: English (US)

• Hit search., you'll end up with the following data.

      Version: 285.62 WHQL

      Release Date:2011.10.24

      Operating System:Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit

      Language:English (U.S.)

      File Size:191 MB

• Download the driver by accepting their terms. 
• After downloading, just open the file and extract and install. ( The previous NVIDIA drivers with be uninstalled automatically)

• Restart the system, play the game. hope it works.

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