Test Drive Unlimited Released Tomoz

silversurfer · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:52

Good pics but the HDR goes a little OTT on the black especially on the cars. Polished or not, black should still reflect/refract some light

Is that soft shadows it needs maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra

alexisonfire · 10 Mar 2007 at 13:55

Most of the photos are taken with the sun behind, so theres no actual light shining on the car, thats why they are dark.

Cyber-Mav · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:01

how do all the cars drive? are they all the same as in all need to be revved high like a F1 car/honda vtec or does this game work like gran turismo 1 and is based around the engine torque band?
e.g in gran turismo1 a mitsubishi GTO the engine could rev all the way up to 8k rpm, however going over 6500rpm would be bad since the car would actually accelerate slower when revving from 6500rpm to 8000rpm than it would when revving from 5000rpm to 6500rpm. since the engine would be in its peak torque band from 5k to 6.5krpm.

but ALL racing games took the formula 1 approach after gran turismo 1 and the more revs you do in the car the faster the car would accelerate. totally ignoring an engines true torque delivery graphs.
iv even seen diesle cars in some games being revved like honda vtec engines to get going and its just plain unrealistic.

so how is testdrive unlimited? true to proper physics and real life engine power delivery? or just as fake as the majority of other car games?

silversurfer · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:20

They dont have any diesels and the physics are arcadey so your f1 example is probably correct

black86 · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:22

black86 · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:23

black86 · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:23

Cyber-Mav · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:41

silversurfer said:
They dont have any diesels and the physics are arcadey so your f1 example is probably correct

bah, thanks for telling me this. can save my money now.

Ren.182 · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:42

Nice screenshots! ^^

how well do you guys reckon it'll play on my system?
amd 3700+ @2.5GHz
2gb pc3200 ram
2x 7800GT in sli

Would like to play on high, with a res of 1280x1024 min. Possible without stuttering? or will I have to lower some settings?

silversurfer · 10 Mar 2007 at 14:44

I did well enough on a single 6600gt with medium settings, I expect your'll be fine. Nice pics black86

mortals · 10 Mar 2007 at 15:03

Wow at the screenshots

Graphics look amazing, I've pre-ordered now as it's only 6days until the official release date. Some of the cars look stunning.

DJKahuna · 10 Mar 2007 at 15:10

I hope there's a demo, i wanna try it first, see whether it's my type of game. If there's no demo, i don't buy a game (exceptions are titles like crysis and UT2007).

I wanna just roam around an island and watch all the other people racing and smashing their cars and then me just going past really slowly shouting pwnd (i assume you can use a microphone to comm. with other players).

black86 · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:06

Cyber-Mav said:
bah, thanks for telling me this. can save my money now.

sdycg

black86 · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:08

Ren.182 said:
Nice screenshots! ^^

how well do you guys reckon it'll play on my system?
amd 3700+ @2.5GHz
2gb pc3200 ram
2x 7800GT in sli

Would like to play on high, with a res of 1280x1024 min. Possible without stuttering? or will I have to lower some settings?

well im on a 4200+ 2gb 1950pro 512 agp and i can run at 1600x1200 high settings 4xaa no hdr with hardly any stuttering.... i get 5100 06 marks

alexisonfire · 10 Mar 2007 at 17:54

alexisonfire · 10 Mar 2007 at 21:51

I think this is my favourite, or on par with the first enzo SS i posted

Ren.182 · 10 Mar 2007 at 23:23

Again, nice shots!

How do the bikes handle?

Cyber-Mav · 11 Mar 2007 at 00:25

how well is this game programmed? from the screen shots the gfx look good but whats the performance like? im guessing its gonna be crappy like rainbow 6 vegas and other new games that require far more hardware than they are worth.

alexisonfire · 11 Mar 2007 at 01:06

Ren.182 said:
Again, nice shots!

How do the bikes handle?

The bikes are impossible to handle

Well...with a keyboard they are.

NightSt@lk3r · 11 Mar 2007 at 02:59

alexisonfire said:
The bikes are impossible to handle

Well...with a keyboard they are.

for some reason i cant even change gear on bike's ive tryed everything, re binding the keys to other keys, auto clutch and it just doens shift.