With this mod[drive.google.com]

this will restore the following songs that didn't make it to the PC version:

1978
Black Heat - Love the Life You Live
Dizzy Dizzy - Can
Charles Wright - Express Yourself
Joe Bataan - Subway Joe
Parliament - Red Hot Mama
Oscar Brown Jr. - Gang Bang
Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces
United 8 - Gettin' Uptown
King Errisson - Sleep Talk
Suicide - Ghost Rider
The Politicians - Free Your Mind
The Meters - People Say
The Damned - Smash It Up
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
United 8 - Getting Uptown

2006
ILS - Intro Reprise
Cagedbaby - Against the Wall
Automato - Cool Boots
Warren Suicide - Adjusting Ourselves
The Dead 60's - A Different Age
The Cribs - Hey Scenesters
Lyrics Born - I Change My Mind
TV On The Radio - New Health Rock
The Secret Machines - Nowhere Again
The Roots - Boom!
Roots Manuva - Chin High
Narco - Worth It
Infadels - Can't Get Enough
Louis XIV - Louis XIV
The Coup - My Favorite Mutiny

The following FMVs are the ones that got their songs changed:
SCENE2: (Atari Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye) (Ubisoft Street Lady - Donald Byrd)
SCENE3: (Atari Express Yourself - Charles Wright) (Ubisoft Low Rider - War)
SCENE5: (Atari Can - Dizzy Dizzy) (Ubisoft Want What I Got - The Sliders)
SCENE6: (Atari Ghost Rider - Suicide) (Ubisoft New York Pity - Monthieu Star)
SCENE8: (Atari Gang Bang - Oscar Brown Jr.) (Ubisoft Neighborhood Threat - Iggy Pop)
SCENE10: (Atari I Change My Mind - Lyrics Born) (Ubisoft The Cookie - Dr. Rubberfunk)
SCENE14: (Atari Chin High - Roots Manuva) (Ubisoft No Music)

Extract the folders inside the zip file to your game's directory (this will also replace the FMVs with ones from the console versions, which are mostly the same just with different music used)


Additionally, you can download the beta soundtrack[drive.google.com] which contains more licensed songs.

obtained from Xbox press build's soundtrack files and early FMVs.

Now we will be replacing the original PC vehicle camera positions with ones from the console versions, which will also fix the weird FOV with this mod
Original Car Cameras Mod[drive.google.com]

extract nyc_vehicles.sp to the Vehicles folder found in the game


PC Camera Position


PS2/Original Xbox Camera Position



Same thing but with FOVFactor = 1.130:
PC Camera Position


PS2/Original Xbox Camera Position



Optional: Merged With Realistic NYPD (By Olanov), FDNY & Real NYC Taxi's Mini-Pack (By DukeOfFail), Hardtop Fairview (By Lughzi) And Fixed Custom Bodyworks For Cerrano, Cerva, Melizzano, Pangea, Regina, Rhapsody And Wayfarer Like PS2 Version Plus San Marino Spyder Racer Damage Texture Fix (By Sunrise424)[drive.google.com]

Here we will be forcing the game to have Anisotropic filtering with the help of Nvidia Control Panel (that is if you have a NVIDIA GPU)

1: open NVIDIA Control Panel and go to Program Settings
2: Select the Driver Parallel Lines executable
3: head down to Anisotropic filtering and set it to the number that you desire

it should look something like this

your game should look like this now:

Here we will be fixing the issue of the audio of the game being quieter than the cutscenes

Using this we will be fixing this issue:Get this[www.indirectsound.com]


All you have to do is extract what is inside the zip file to your game's directory


Note: It might cause stuttering depending on the hardware. If that happens to you, you can try configure the dsound.ini or just skip this one

By default, the game is capped at 1920x1080 resolution and adds black bars for aspect ratios other than 16:9, Using the widescreen fix[thirteenag.github.io] by ThirteenAG we will be fixing this issue

Extract what is inside the zip file to your game's directory


Here is a comparison of how the game looks like with the widescreen fix and without it:
with the widescreen fix
without the widescreen fix


Editor's Note: You can use this even if you don't have Ultrawide Monitor as it's very handy for having more FOV than what the game normally intends

Replace FOVFactor = 1.0 with FOVFactor = 1.130 inside the ini with notepad (or 1.031 if you don't want to break the immersion during ingame cutscenes)

Thanks to wulf for helping me make this guide and thanks for zombie9143 for telling me about most of these mods such as the music fix and the camera fix (which he also worked on), special thanks to Olanov for the Realistic NYPD, DukeOfFail for the FDNY & Real NYC Taxi's Mini-Pack and Lughzi for the Hardtop Fairview, a huge thank you to Sunrise424 for fixing Custom Bodyworks For Cerrano, Cerva, Melizzano, Pangea, Regina, Rhapsody And Wayfarer (Since it was more than Cerrano that had it's bodyworks changed on PC) Plus Fixing San Marino Spyder Racer Damage Texture
and a huge thank you to ermaccer for his amazing works on DPLHook & DriverPL.360Cam

A simple plugin for Driver: Parallel Lines that changes the default vehicle camera to 360 one.[github.com]

Pros = can play game properly instead of on rails static camera
Cons = using a bike is slightly more challenging as it utilizes mouse movement

Taking screenshots for the game has gotten even better thanks to ermaccer's amazing tool[github.com]


You can make extremely cool screenshots like something out of a promotional material