NR2003 started to lag and stutter a few days ago

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Right now, I have realized that NR2003 will literally work for 1-2 days every month. The game worked on the 15th and sometime around late January to Early February, it's like a crapshoot but the House Always Wins or in this case, makes NR irritable as hell during gameplay.
 

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While that previous statement aged as well as a Terry Funk retirement, I have gotten myself a fix to my stuttering issue. I just need to have my laptop's WiFi turned off once I turn it on so the game doesn't stutter during gameplay. It only stutters once my laptop has a Internet Connection so yeah. Got myself a fix that won't last 1 day
 
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While that previous statement aged as well as a Terry Funk retirement, I have gotten myself a fix to my stuttering issue. I just need to have my laptop's WiFi turned off once I turn it on so the game doesn't stutter during gameplay. It only stutters once my laptop has a Internet Connection so yeah. Got myself a fix that won't last 1 day
Well in my experience with the latest updates of W10 the stuttering has gone for a few days but after that the stuttering is present in lowest levels compared to when the first update of W10 20H2-2004 came out, and i tried your fix also but i have a little problem: i use my phone as Steering Whell and it connects with Wifi, so, this isn't a way to fix that on my side, but obviously will be a great solution for many others. I'm enjoying again the great races in NR2003, with low levels of lag but playable
 

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You could always run a virtual machine. What a virtual machine is just another OS inside your OS. You can use either Oracle VM VirtualBox or VMWorkstation Pro. Both are great, you could search Youtube videos on how to get them working, or fiddle around. You do need a copy of a Windows OS in .iso form.
 
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Just to know...when your game started to lag after the windows update did you try to reinstall the DX9 Update with reshade?
 

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I no longer have any lag issues since I play it with WiFi off, which I think was the reason why NR2003 was giving those issues for a while.
Glad it run fine! I know it was fixed I was a bit late and it's the first time I heard NR2003 was lagging because of the WiFi. I add it to my well-known issue list haha.

For me, I always fixed the lag by redoing the DX9 update with ReShade and I check too if theres an update on the d3d8to9 dll on GitHub. But that is for Nvidia user only of course and it always depend what material we have.
 

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I have a major lag problem in the game. Yes I'm running it on Windows 10 and I have done Updates and uninstalling reinstalled the game I took my mods out and tracks and have bare bones of the game with nothing added and it lags on the main menu even tried to have the ai do a race and it only got to 10 fps

Here is a video of the menu lag
 

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You guys asking for help because of lag problems, it would be very helpful if you would give your machine specs, I don't know how much you know about your hardware, and if you have done any research as to what your vid card settings should be, research is the key for self help. Knowledge about your windows and how to have it play nice with this old game is also an area you might want to explore. Windows settings, vid card settings, game settings all play a role in having a smooth running game.
I have also read on several sites that reshade causes more problems than it's worth.
I would suggest for you to install a fresh copy of the game, add the 1201 patch, the 4gb memory patch, don't add anything else just yet, then start adjusting your settings. Once you have the base game running smooth, add one thing at a time and run for several days, if you still run smooth add another item, run that for several days. Doing this will help you find the culprit to your problems.
Always make sure your car files are not over 4mb in size,
 
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I have two suggestions for this: Either do what Garrett suggested and do a complete reinstall of NR, 4gb patch and all or just hook up a controller onto your PC and run NR while having your controller as the primary method to drive the cars.
I have a major lag problem in the game. Yes I'm running it on Windows 10 and I have done Updates and uninstalling reinstalled the game I took my mods out and tracks and have bare bones of the game with nothing added and it lags on the main menu even tried to have the ai do a race and it only got to 10 fps

Here is a video of the menu lag
 

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Windows 10 Home
Version 21H2
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3710 @ 1.60GHz 1.60GHz
Installed RAM 8.00GB
System Type 64-Bit operating system, x64-based processor
 

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I tried the 4gb patch on the game and nothing really fixed it still slow running and lagging game
 

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My game is still not working right and I'm not sure what to do
 

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And i tried downloading a new mencs18 and transferred the cars from the old one to the new one but that did not work and im not trying downloading all my 572 cars again so my guess might be your cars and another thing i had with the mencs 18 issue the cars would not render/load in game they would be plain black and they would disappear so my guess is your car files i dont know for sure tho .
 

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And this is with no mods, no new tracks, or no new sounds added to the game
 

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