Need For Speed Hot Pursuit's PC owners have been dealing with a few bugs since the driving game was released last week. Today the game's official message boards got an update from Matt Webster of developer Criterion Games with word that a PC patch is on its way and should be available to download sometime next week.

The patch will address several issues including crashes with some users with multi-core processors, with Webster stating, "Interestingly we're actually intrigued that the game works at all after our investigations with the problem actually manifesting itself in code that we shipped as part of Burnout Paradise." The patch will also fix missing rain, sun and corona effects in the game and will add support for the D-BOX motion control chair.

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