Installation on Origin - went smoothly. Runs on Win8.1 easily at least for me (12GB RAM, HD7870, CPU AMD Phenom II 980) Game is quite entertaining. What's annoying, the rubber band AI as NFS is so common. This has an advantage even occasionally. In a self-inflicted accident can still be first then mostly anyway. What scripted races are extremely annoying v. A to B with the aim to become the first ever to land and objects on the road or vehicles blocking the way. Since only trial and error remains to the appropriate "distance" to know by heart and then simply not to be distracted.