Test Drive Unlimited Released Tomoz

alexisonfire · 16 Mar 2007 at 14:56

black86 said:
when does it ask for a cd key because it hasnt asked me yet??

Mine did not ask me for my CD-key either, but its working fine...

ajgoodfellow · 16 Mar 2007 at 14:58

utajoker said:
do u need to pay for an account to play online? i have a free one, that all i need for online play?

I've got a free one and it works fine

KadreMoD · 16 Mar 2007 at 14:58

Spunj99 said:
The server started working properly for me now, was just driving along and *BAM* people appeared as they should.

Best thing to do if you want to meet up is name a fairly remote spot and wait around there, occasionally checking your map to see if the other person is there...sometimes you can be in the same place but not the same "session" so you'll see them on the map but not in front of you.

Yep, people just appeared for me after about an hour of playing. Although a lot of the time im on my own, so ive resorted to online races.

Got another problem though, when trying to do missions 'Gear Up' and 'Gear Down' wont work on my 360 pad. Got them assigned to A and X . Quite annoying as I like manual gears a lot more then auto.Hopefully will be sorted out this patch.

Overall though I'm liking the game as i knew i would having played it in Beta. It's the sort of direction i always wanted Car/Racing games to go.

utajoker · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:01

ajgoodfellow said:
I've got a free one and it works fine

thx for comfirming, as for people sying that they are not seeing any other drivers, could this be because its first day of release and people being at work etc not being home to play it yet

reckon it will fill up in a week or so?

alexisonfire · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:06

utajoker said:
thx for comfirming, as for people sying that they are not seeing any other drivers, could this be because its first day of release and people being at work etc not being home to play it yet

reckon it will fill up in a week or so?

Theres obvious problems with the TDU server at the moment, i just hope atari do something about it. I've seen the members online at about 1500 people, yet can only see 20-30 at most on the map. Also the update time of the map is very slow, when the servers are lagging. The map shows someone on a road, and when you spawn on them, there 6 miles away.

utajoker · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:08

i shall soon see for myself, going to pick this up after work tonite

can u form a group/guild/clan or what ever they calling them?

maybe get a ocuk one ? dont no if it been mentions earlier buti not trauling thru 15 pages

PyroboyUK · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:11

I have got this game and its already driving me nuts!

I cannot seem to login. It wants a valid Gamespy account, Fine...Got one (now 2) and i have entered em both and it either says Nickname invalid or it is in use with another password.

Cant seem to get by it!

Any ideas?

black86 · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:14

ajgoodfellow said:
It asked me on first load, before it even asked for a nickname and whether you wanted an online account or not

hmmm ive been playing sp without a key.....maybe this key biz has sumet to do with my failure

Mortster · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:16

black86 said:
hmmm ive been playing sp without a key.....maybe this key biz has sumet to do with my failure

TDU stores a key.txt file somewhere in your NT profile.

I cant remember of hand (im at work at moment), but take a look around C:\documents and settings\%your username%\local settings\application data

or do a search for a file called 'key.txt'

you might need to delete it and start over.

particularly if you took part in the open/closed beta. (iirc the beta uninstall did not remove this file correctly, but it had no problems removing the contents of the root of the C:\ drive lol!!!)

black86 · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:19

Mortster said:
TDU stores a key.txt file somewhere in your NT profile.

I cant remember of hand (im at work at moment), but take a look around C:\documents and settings\%your username%\local settings\application data

or do a search for a file called 'key.txt'

you might need to delete it and start over.

particularly if you took part in the open/closed beta. (iirc the beta uninstall did not remove this file correctly, but it had no problems removing the contents of the root of the C:\ drive lol!!!)

yeah i remmeber seeing that key file in that directory.....cheers mate

Mortster · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:20

black86 said:
yeah i remmeber seeing that key file in that directory.....cheers mate

no probs, hope it helps !

PyroboyUK · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:22

I have created another gamespy account and it still wont accept it, i have now tried 3 names, Any idea what i am doing wrong?

I am entering the info from my gamespy account. Name, Password, ticked the box and my email address and the stupid thing wont accept it!

Mortster · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:25

PyroboyUK said:
I have created another gamespy account and it still wont accept it, i have now tried 3 names, Any idea what i am doing wrong?

I am entering the info from my gamespy account. Name, Password, ticked the box and my email address and the stupid thing wont accept it!

the gamespy nick is very fussy.
make sure you have no spaces or any special characters such as -

PyroboyUK · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:26

Mortster said:
the gamespy nick is very fussy.
make sure you have no spaces or any special characters such as -

That will explain the other 2 names, but still i am using "Pyroboy" and it just wont take it

Mortster · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:27

PyroboyUK said:
That will explain the other 2 names, but still i am using "Pyroboy" and it just wont take it

I'm not sure then to be honest mate. Sorry.

Digital · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:28

Only just received my copy this morning, and already it's annoying the hell out of me, it's ArmA all over again.

I've got a BSOD when saving (although completely randomly), keep whining on about NV4_DISP.DLL (grpahics), yet had no problems with anything else. :mad:

Next I lost my savegame, well first it made my online account was mde into an offline account and then it wiped out all my progress. :mad:

PyroboyUK · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:29

This game will drive me nuts. You would have thought just create a name and go, but it has to be way more complicated, the error i get when using "Pyroboy" is that "its in use with another password" but its my email, my password that i created, how can it be in use with another?

ajgoodfellow · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:30

PyroboyUK said:
This game will drive me nuts. You would have thought just create a name and go, but it has to be way more complicated, the error i get when using "Pyroboy" is that "its in use with another password" but its my email, my password that i created, how can it be in use with another?

Have you checked that you've got the case right?

Mortster · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:32

PyroboyUK said:
This game will drive me nuts. You would have thought just create a name and go, but it has to be way more complicated, the error i get when using "Pyroboy" is that "its in use with another password" but its my email, my password that i created, how can it be in use with another?

I had same problem with setting 'mort'

it wouldn't accept it whatever i tried.

it seems the atari/gamespy servers have a seperate list of nicks in addition to those nicks associated to your actual gamespy ID, and if, in my case, mort has already been used (Even though this is my actual gamespy ID) then it refuses it.

I love this game, but envy 360 users with the live service. Perhaps it would have been better for Atari/Eden to wait and use this game with Windows Live for Vista.

PyroboyUK · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:33

ajgoodfellow said:
Have you checked that you've got the case right?

On gamespy its on as "Pyroboy" with cap P at the start, been trying different combinations but nothing!