Test Drive Unlimited Released Tomoz

Bigpig · 17 Mar 2007 at 10:59

My copy should have came yesterday but din't...

Have they made this game to easy? as in...I have all my fav cars in 1 or 2 days and have nothing to aim for ?

Digital · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:13

Well I sorted my nv4_disp.dll / BSOD issue out, and have played a fair bit and love it!

Got myself an Audi TT, a Ducati and a Koenigsegg.

One thing I did notice though, is there some kind of 'You need to take a break' feature? Every so often the sound will automatically mute and/or the window will minimise. Nothing is happening in the background, so it's the only thing I can think of. :confused:

Simmy · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:19

Digital said:
Well I sorted my nv4_disp.dll / BSOD issue out, and have played a fair bit and love it!

Got myself an Audi TT, a Ducati and a Koenigsegg.

One thing I did notice though, is there some kind of 'You need to take a break' feature? Every so often the sound will automatically mute and/or the window will minimise. Nothing is happening in the background, so it's the only thing I can think of.

How did you sort the nv4_disp.dll bsod?

Regarding the minimising problem, you sure you're not just pressing the windows key?

Digital · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:27

Simmy said:
How did you sort the nv4_disp.dll bsod?

Regarding the minimising problem, you sure you're not just pressing the windows key?

Nope, I have a G15 so it's disabled.

Re. nv4_disp.dll - I downgraded my drivers to the official nvidia 93.71 ones. Took a fps hit (getting arond 35fps @ 1280x1024 on High with no AA).

volt9291 · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:09

I am so annoyed with this game! it installed fine, runs and plays fine in single player. But when i play online it loses the connection to the server every 5 minutes, so i will be half way round a race and it will just stop and say connection lost :mad:

Anybody have any ideas what it could be? i have all the correct ports forwarded and firewall settings are fine! if i didn't i don't think it would even connect in the first place, so why will it only play for 5 minutes???? :confused:

HangTime · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:24

Loving my TVR Tuscan S, only a Cat C car but with level3 tuning it does 209mph and 0-60 in 3.4s. Actually preferring it my (Cat B) Corvette atm.

Both good value motors for beginners btw... Tuscan is $80k and Corvette $71k

Bigpig · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:40

woot my copy just poped though the letter box installing now

Can't wait

Mint_Sauce · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:51

Played it for a good few hours (10+) and to be honest I've lost interest. Pretty graphics but the gameplay is very generic, not much to aim for other than special cars you don't really want anyway and bigger/more houses.

Still, it was good enough fun for £18 while it lasted, I doubt i'll run it again for a while tho.

UKTopGun · 17 Mar 2007 at 13:40

Had this game for about 2weeks now. It is becoming a bit boring as it is very repetitive. The single player races are wayyyyyyyyyyyy to easy and thats without even choosing the best car in class / tuning. Tuning is a nice idea but only really useful if youre racing online. AI could be a bit better as I've noticed if I crash, all the AI slow down for me and if I speed up, the AI speed up too.

Very good fun while it lasted, I found it more fun just cruising around with my music playing in the background than doing the challenges!

steve45 · 17 Mar 2007 at 13:57

really enjoying this game, find the hours just melt away, cruising about in a nissan 350z nismo S-Tune(upgraded to R-Tune).
dunno if it was a good purchase or not but i dont really care

as its a fun controllable car.

when i first started playing i tryed to use a xbox pad, but that was just a no go, felt horrible, didnt feel in touch with the game at all, so out with the DFP and it really does make all the difference.

runnign suprisingly well on my backup computer.
(3700+, 2gbram, 1900xtx)
about 30fps avg, dropping to low 20's when there is a lot of smoke but it dosnt bother me.

so far the only things thats really annoying me at the moment, is the roads tend to be a bit abrupt in the gradient changes, like theres not enough polys, which can make any sort of speeds through undulating roads a bit hairy, but i guess its livable, just have to back off when it comes to the bad sections, suppose thats the price you pay for having such a huge streaming landscape to drive on.

off for a cruise about the island, yet to explore the northern territories, looks like it'll be a long scenic drive, radio on, boot down

black86 · 17 Mar 2007 at 14:46

i still can connect to a race....i hardly get the option to change my status to ready.....and a lot of the times it just hangs on connecting.....

edit just went on again and again it hangs on connecting when trying 2 find a race....is there no way of cancelling this....i have 2 exit the game

manoz · 17 Mar 2007 at 14:47

Is there any good music in this game?

Tom1138 · 17 Mar 2007 at 15:02

manoz said:
Is there any good music in this game?

Yeah your own personalised radio channel with your own music

But there are 4 channels already made and the music isn't bad. Nothing famous but got a good beat to drive too.

black86 · 17 Mar 2007 at 15:08

so whens the next ocuk gather up happning on this game????

mortals · 17 Mar 2007 at 17:02

Does anyone know how the points system works? I'm stuck on 195 points atm

I was stuck on 185 earlier, but as soon as I bought a car thru the trade option I instantly moved up to Expert gaining 10points :confused:

Doing races and coming first doesn't seem to change the points at all?

ajgoodfellow · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:13

ajgoodfellow said:
On entry, yes I find this. It's reading the hard drive though which would explain the lower frame rate. I also find it drops considerably whilest it's loading the new areas - 1GB of ram with Vista just isn't enough. Thankfully though I've got 2GB coming tomorrow!

Just to say that it's now fine - I don't have the problems that I had before when driving around and loading new areas now I've gone to 2GB of ram

I've upgraded from 1GB of PNY @ DDR2-667 5-5-5-18 1T to 2GB of Geil @ DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 1T

pabloB · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:14

Mint_Sauce said:
Played it for a good few hours (10+) and to be honest I've lost interest. Pretty graphics but the gameplay is very generic, not much to aim for other than special cars you don't really want anyway and bigger/more houses.

Still, it was good enough fun for £18 while it lasted, I doubt i'll run it again for a while tho.

If your bored i might take it off your hands

GazD · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:16

mortals said:
Does anyone know how the points system works? I'm stuck on 195 points atm

I was stuck on 185 earlier, but as soon as I bought a car thru the trade option I instantly moved up to Expert gaining 10points Doing races and coming first doesn't seem to change the points at all?

When at your house, go to the achievements screen, it will tell you how many points you need to get to the next rank and it also tells you what you can do to get more points e.g have 3 models of cars from certain manufacturers.

zytok · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:16

8800 problems official

"The offical line is............there is an issue with Nvidia cards which Nvidia are aware of and we are working with them on a solution.

Thats all the info I have at this point.........please be patient..."

From a mod on Atari's forums.......... At least they're admitting it and doing something about it I guess.....

mortals · 17 Mar 2007 at 19:59

GazD said:
When at your house, go to the achievements screen, it will tell you how many points you need to get to the next rank and it also tells you what you can do to get more points e.g have 3 models of cars from certain manufacturers.

Ah cool

seems to give you points for groups of gold cups in races like 40 etc.

I might have to do some of the model missions I guess, seems like you can get points for those aswell. I thought you only got those clothes tokens.