TDU: broken map button, too fast gameplay, old saves

[CLR-GTR]

So with the release of TDUZoqqers modding tutorials and the TDU Paradise project of Speeder, I decided to install my whole TDU1 whack again.

 

What I've done:

-installed game + key

-patch it to 1.66 (but the game said it already was 1.66.... mkay)

-installed megapack + key (went fine)

-played game (got rental car, bought house, finished the first race)

 

Playing the game made me notice some things I now ask for solutions for. I also had TDU1 installed on my previous PC, a Vista 32-bit machine, and never had the next issues on that pc.

 

1. The map button doesn't work. I've re-assigned it several times, but when pressing it I hear that TDU-error buzzer. How to fix this? FIXED I had not finished the ''tutorial'' yet (didn't recognize the tutorial required a return home and leaving the house again).

2. The game acts in a way I remember from GTA2. When played on modern machines, that game would go ballistic in gameplay speed if the frame limiter wasn't checked. Well, I have the feeling this now happens to my TDU1. The traffic almost instantly changes lane, sometimes causing jumps or bumps, traffic spawns suddenly a few times very near me, and animations like lowering the windows or starting the car go very, very fast. On my Vista machine, lowering/raising the windows took like 2 or 3 seconds (and yes, gameplay was smooth....), now it takes 0,5-1 second... How to slow this down?

3. I played TDU before, finished it (ok maybe to 95-99%), and I backed up those saves. It's a map with the profile name, and that map contains an IGE map *in my case with 3 IGE files*, a playersave folder with 2 files and a playersave2 with similar files. I tried moving my profile name map to Documents>TDU>savegame but the game did not recognize the save when I entered the Profiles list.

So, how dó I get this to work? Do I need more files? I also have a TDU_MC_1_66_A.dmp file, is that one required? FIXED I have followed Ryzza5's description on how to convert an online save to offline, and it's all back again.

 

Details of settings ingame:

1920x1080

60Hz

4xAA

HDR on

 

Perhaps unnecessary to mention but I'm talking about my own old savegames, my TDU game is legit and my megapack is legit.

[nicram7666]

I don't know about the framerate issues, but I remember that I also copied my savegame. If I remember corectly, you need to make a new profile in game, so that it's registered in ProfileList.dat, and then (I think ;p) you can simply copy the content from your previous save into the folder from the new profile in TDU saves folder.

 

Edit: There's also another issue, if your old save is from online profile (and I guess it is, since you have ~95%), you need to make a new, offline profile and do some hex editing, otherwise you won't be able to play. I'm pretty sure there was a tutorial somewhere on this forum on how to convert your online profile to offline. Though I don't think it's worth the trouble now, since Speeder's Project Paradise will soon bring back online servers, so an online profile will be reqiured anyway I guess.

[CLR-GTR]

Well I did that, I first made a profile called Test with which I finished that first race, then I copied my files over. But it didn't detect it :(

[nicram7666]

Maybe because the old one is online and new offline? If that's not the problem, then I don't know, sorry

[CLR-GTR]

Nvm.... I found an old post of Andreaz1 stating profiles only work with the games with which they were created..... I installed a different copy I had laying here.

 

Can anybody confirm this?

[The Compensator]

Well, have you tried creating a new profile?

[CLR-GTR]

Well I did that, I first made a profile called Test with which I finished that first race, then I copied my files over. But it didn't detect it :(

 

....?

[The Compensator]

I hadn't read that post. :run:

 

Don't know what to do, man.

[nicram7666]

Maybe try to do it this way? How to: Convert Online Savegame to Offline following TDU1 Server Shutdown | turboduck forum

Assuming the old save was from an online profile. I know it is possible to do it, since I myself am currently using my old profile with 99% converted to offline with the method described in the link.

[CLR-GTR]

Right, that one worked, I got everything back (well, cars and ingame progress, I deleted my photos years ago but that's no issue). I also got the map mode to work. I only started TDU once, in 2007, and I forgot there was actually a tutorial that had to be completed by entering and leaving your house after winning the first race. So that's done too.

 

Leaves the question of the too rapid gameplay. What I did notice, is that the window animations work at normal speed when I view a car in the garage/showroom. It's purely when being outside that it all goes too fast.

 

Any ideas?

[TDUZoqqer]

I don't think there is a way to fix it, it is more like a game bug. Got this too. Funny thing, when you pause the game right after pressing the windows button, the windows will still roll down while pausing. There is no fix for that either.

[CLR-GTR]

Hm alright... guess I'll have to live with it.

 

Now to reinstall the game, again, because from what I understand I dó need my original online profile (and my original TDU I made that profile with) to play online...

[TDUZoqqer]

You actualy just have to make a new online profile and transfer your old online (or offline) profile into it. You dont even have to complete the tutorials, just make a profile, select a character, choose a rental and turn off tdu. The tutorial how you can transfer it with HEX is on TDuck too.

[CLR-GTR]

Ye I managed to get it to work. Now just to wait for the release of Paradise :)

[The Compensator]

Glad you've sorted it out. :btup