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Need For Speed Carbon Widescreen Fix

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Need for Speed: Carbon Widescreen Fix adds proper widescreen support, corrects HUD and FOV, fixes FMVs, and includes a range of quality-of-life and visual improvements.

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Fixes

• Resolution - native support for any display resolution, including ultrawide
• Aspect Ratio - corrected for all rendered elements
• HUD - repositioned and scaled to match the active aspect ratio; optional constraint (16:9, 21:9, or custom); configurable UI scale and auto-fit mode
• Field of View - corrected for widescreen; optional Xbox 360 or mathematically correct hor+ scaling
• FMVs - fullscreen display for 16:9 with crop or stretch mode; auto-fit scaling for narrower ratios
• Lighting - adjusted to match the Xbox 360 version
• Car Shadows - opacity reduced to match the Xbox 360 version
• Xenon Effects - fixed alpha blending state for sparks and contrails

New Options

• Skip Intro - bypass startup FMVs
• Windowed Mode - borderless, bordered, resizable, or borderless fullscreen
• FPS / Sim Rate - configurable simulation refresh rate; sync to monitor refresh rate or double it
• Crash Fix - solves a crash that sometimes occurs after loading a profile

• Gamepad Support - Xbox, PlayStation, or no-icon text labels, with fixed front-end bindings
• Expanded Controller Options - lists all 29 options in the controller config menu
• Analog Deadzones - configurable left and right stick deadzones
• Custom Save Directory - redirect user files to any subfolder in the game directory

• Registry-Free Settings - optionally saves all game settings to settings.ini instead of the registry
• Rain Droplet Scale - adjusts the size of on-screen rain droplets
• Motion Blur Toggle - disable motion blur without losing other effects such as screen flashes or light trails
• Disable Contrails - disables the wind effect behind the car
• Console Gamma - a custom gamma curve that creates a more contrasted image with deeper colors, similar to how some games looked on the Xbox 360

Camera

• Mouse/Stick Look - fully functional free-look with adjustable sensitivity for both mouse and right stick. Experience Need for Speed: Carbon like never before with new camera angles. Reset timeout, return speed, and vertical axis inversion are all configurable in the .ini file.

Before / After

Before	After
Original 4:3 output	Correct 16:9 aspect ratio with proper HUD and FOV
The game would also be stretched in ultrawide	Widescreen fix makes it work with any aspect ratio

Installation

1. Download the .zip from this release.
2. Extract the contents directly into the game folder - the same folder as nfsc.exe.
3. Optionally edit NFSCarbon.WidescreenFix.ini to configure the available options.
4. Launch the game.

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