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Origin OS Version Bypass

This guide shows how to hex-edit Origin to disable operating system check, which allows NFS Heat to download and install on Windows 7.

If this works for you, I'd appreciate if you bought me a coffee.

Check your Origin.exe version:

If the most recent version is missing, please check the comments; if nobody has commented about it yet, please let me know.

Alternatively, you can try the advanced patching guide that should work on any version, but the advanced guide is a lot more involved and there be dragons.

I recommend switching Origin to offline mode, because if the game needs an update, you will have to do this again.

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p601 commented Feb 26, 2020

Or can you make a workaround so that we dont have to do this everytime ? Thank You.

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chylex commented Feb 27, 2020

If you don't want to do this every time, the only option right now is to do it once and disable Origin updates. There might be a better solution, but I don't have time to find it.

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I'm new to the party on this and have only just turned off Origin updates since your last fix. Unfortunately offline mode seems to only be of any use for launching games (in offline mode) - any updates and such requires the mandatory update. Awkward fuckers. lol

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p601 commented Feb 27, 2020

Ok can You put an update for the origin exe version i have mentioned above ?Thanks.

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I'd say it's an unreasonable expectation to ask chylex to provide fixes every few days if EA are going to update at such a high frequency. Unless the game you're wanting updated is actually broken without an immediate action, just leave it be.

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p601 commented Feb 27, 2020

Ok just one more time please ?

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chylex commented Feb 27, 2020

If Origin keeps updating this fast I'll wait a day just in case. I'm planning to write a slightly longer guide that should help with finding the offsets for any version, mind it's a bit more involved and changing the wrong thing could be dangerous (especially as Origin has full system privileges), but it's better than nothing if I'm not able to update the offsets in time.

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p601 commented Feb 27, 2020

Ok, that would be great.

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chylex commented Mar 1, 2020

I looked into Origin internals a bit more, unfortunately I still couldn't figure out how to bypass the OS check another way. I will try to condense the required offset changes to make it easier to update, though.

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chylex commented Mar 2, 2020

One more update, I started writing an advanced guide that should work in the future, I'll have to finish it later this week because Origin's giving me a bit of trouble.

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p601 commented Mar 2, 2020 via email

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chylex commented Mar 5, 2020

Added offsets for 10.5.64.37936 (now only 10 places instead of 14), and a rough advanced patching guide so that people can find the offsets themselves (maybe someone else will post them before me when Origin updates, but I'd advise people to get suspicious if someone posts offsets that don't look like the ones in the guide).

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chylex commented Mar 5, 2020

If anyone has technical comments or questions about the advanced guide, its page on the blog has a separate discussion from the other pages.

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chylex commented Mar 7, 2020

That's the advanced patching guide. If you don't want to hexedit/repatch after every update, disable updates. The advanced guide is what you can do yourself if I haven't updated the hex offsets, not something that will work on its own forever.

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Please add offsets for 10.5.72.41482 - 762378

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chylex commented Jun 30, 2020

Taking a break from this project, you can use the advanced guide to patch any version until I come back to it.

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cmdroot commented Aug 14, 2020

Advanced guide works great (10.5.80.) In my case needed fake DXSETUP.exe from dxwebsetup.exe also. If You have DX_11 problems try to overwrite .exe file to skip it!

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chylex commented Aug 14, 2020

Idk which part you're talking about.

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p601 commented Aug 28, 2020

Nevermind I know now .

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p601 commented Sep 6, 2020

Hello guys you can upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free, the game will work, and there is no need to delete or install Nfs heat again, just choose upgrade Win 10 option from Microsoft site. Cheers.

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