Test Drive Unlimited on a Mac? Questions about the game, what OS, hardware etc

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I was going through some stuff on my shelf and I realised that I bought Test Drive Unlimited when I still had a PC but I hardly ever used it and that's a shame.

So I've got an eight Xeon core Mac Pro with the Nvidia 512Mb 8800GT graphics card and 10Gb RAM sitting here without a Boot Camp partition on it. I can easily Boot Camp it to have a play but I need a question or two answered first.

Should I use XP or Vista for this? I might install FS X into it as well so what's the best OS to use?

How well is TDU going to work with my hardware?

Am I going to have to download a boatload of patches for TDU?

Can I use my wired Xbox 360 controller to play TDU? I don't have a wheel and I've always found the 360 controller quite good for racing games.

I'm posting this here rather than in the Apple forums because the questions are mainly about the game and the hardware will effectively be a PC once bootcamped.

Thanks.
 
Not wana try virtual pc and install xp or vista on it?

Hardware wise should be fine. I get 60fps most of the time droping to 48 when in the house room. Thats with supersampling on and vsync.
 
I'm not keen on doing fancy graphics stuff within a virtual machine. I have both Parallels and Fusion installed.

I suppose I could put Windows 7 on there but I'd rather not faff about with an RC. I have XP and Vista, I won't be buying 7 so it would expire eventually.
 
Is that it? Nobody knows about performance on my sort of hardware and whether or not I can use the 360 controller in the game?
 
TBH I've had XP and W7 on my MBP (Not on my MP) but the difference in games is... negligible.

Go and get the 64Bit W7 build 7229 (or whatever the latest is now) and run it :D

Im running LFS, FS-X, HL2 and now I have TDU back, that too :)
 
Not a Mac user but that hardware should be fine. I'd go for XP for ease of use as Vista uses more resources and as it's a Mac you want as much available to you as possible.

There is just one patch for TDU which takes it to the most recent version as long as you have a machine connected to the internet it will take you to the page automatically though sometimes it errors and you need to maually find and install the patch.

Do not use a virtual machine as it will be pointless.



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
Not a Mac user but that hardware should be fine. I'd go for XP for ease of use as Vista uses more resources and as it's a Mac you want as much available to you as possible.
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lol, he has a Mac Pro. Its more powerful than a good 90-95% of computers on these here forums, oh and 10gb ram...

FYI Feek, I installed TDU on W7 64 bit and it ran perfectly... up until it crashed.

However I think that was GPU related as it was 10C hotter than normal, and it usually crashes 5C lower than that so it had a good run really :p

4870 @ 1920x1200, max everything, HDR, >60FPS :)
 
After a little search:

Simply right click your shortcut for TDU, click properties, and in the "Target" box, add this to the end " -fps" so you have this:

"C:\Program Files\Atari\Test Drive Unlimited\TestDriveUnlimited.exe" -fps

Obviously change the shortcut if you install it somewhere else.

I have not tried it - however I have seen it in a few places so it should work.



M.
 
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