The is not an official patch from EA. It is a labor of love created by modders, most notably within the "ThirteenAG" Widescreen Fix collective. These developers reverse-engineer the game's memory addresses to inject new resolution parameters and adjust the rendering engine.
The game crashes immediately on launch. Fix: You are likely missing the DirectX 9 runtime. Install "DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer." Also, ensure d3d8.dll isn't being blocked by Windows Defender. nfs underground 1 widescreen fix