[RELEASED] Test Drive Unlimited Platinum - v1.21

[ATTRAZION]

Does the project have a server in the Discord? 

[Milli]

1 minute ago, ATTRAZION said:

Does the project have a server in the Discord? 

No. The forum does though. 
 

 

[Rigel]

3 minutes ago, ATTRAZION said:

Does the project have a server in the Discord? 

The project itself doesn't have one, but there's TurboDuck Official Discord server though. 
https://discord.gg/FvF6FFv
Anyway, if there is one dedicated the project, lemme know
Bruh, I'm late.

Edited April 23, 2019 by Rigel

[Guest Feri Ara]

Thank you Milli for your answers.

I beleive I will have to be a Champion to be able to play Hardcore and to see the g-meter.

About the game I noticed some 1 second freezing from time to time (i7 6700 nvidia 1080Ti OS on a SSD although TDU on a mechanical hardrive) . I beleive it does not occur the second time I play a challenge, so maybe it has to do with loading of maps/textures. Any hint to get rid of the freezing/stuttering besides trying to install TDU on a SSD, that I would like to avoid?

 Thank you

 

Cheers

[Milli]

2 minutes ago, Guest Feri Ara said:

Thank you Milli for your answers.

I beleive I will have to be a Champion to be able to play Hardcore and to see the g-meter.

About the game I noticed some 1 second freezing from time to time (i7 6700 nvidia 1080Ti OS on a SSD although TDU on a mechanical hardrive) . I beleive it does not occur the second time I play a challenge, so maybe it has to do with loading of maps/textures. Any hint to get rid of the freezing/stuttering besides trying to install TDU on a SSD, that I would like to avoid?

 Thank you

 

Cheers

Yes you will. The g-meter is only in hardcore mode. 

And no idea about other solution than that, as TDU always did it. 

[Rigel]

Just opened the database to add my own stuff with TDUF and I be like....


How the hell were you doing in that mess lmfao? Great job and thanks once again cause I doubt anyone else would have the patience to do THAT. 

For other people: run TDUF, open the database and you'll get what I'm talking about (though I understand how it works more or less).

Edited April 23, 2019 by Rigel

[Guest Diablo Test]

This is guest post test, great work!

[RobbieG-NL]

Milli (and others who helped make this possible) thanks times infinite for all of your time and great efforts. Looks and feel amazing. So much more fun to be had. This more than 12-year-old game feels like new now. Super awesome! Going to spend so much time in there again. Thanks!!!

[PiotrGT]

15 hours ago, Guest Thrasher9294 said:

I actually may have fixed it--I tried applying patch 1.68b and then reinstalling Platinum and it seems to have fixed whatever issue was being caused. I didn't actually use Chrome/Spotify while the issue was happening, and this past session I was able to run Spotify just fine while playing and had no problems!

Cheers for the mod, it's brilliant work. Thanks for getting me introduced to this great game.

First of all, amazing work on the mod @Milli . It really feels like a new game now.  

I have the exact issue as you did Thrasher, it seems to happen with some cars, one I know for sure has this issue is AE86. After about 20 minutes of gameplay the game just slows down to a crawl, the textures get messed up etc. I have a far less powerful device (940m, i5 5200u, 8gb, pretty basic but TDU runs smooth). I tried doing what you describe. I installed the game, patch 1.66 and megapack. I then Installed the 1.68b patch, which couldn't get installed (I have Polish version), but after installing 1.67d it installed (the game is in English now but I have the original files stored) and then the Platinum. Sadly, the issue is still there. I tried installing 1.68b again over the Platinum, no luck, tried reinstalling Platinum (copied files again and replaced) and still it's starts to slow down after 20 minutes of gameplay. It works perfect up to that point.

[lecatoir]

Thank you so much for this amazing work @Milli, and all the others moders who bring this game so far, TDU feels so fresh now it(s just amazing !

I only have a question about a car in particular, the TVR T440R. Is she gone or did you make it obtainable by tuner shop ? I bought the Tuscan but apart from get out the roof there is nothing lol.

[Milli]

4 hours ago, PiotrGT said:

First of all, amazing work on the mod @Milli . It really feels like a new game now.  

I have the exact issue as you did Thrasher, it seems to happen with some cars, one I know for sure has this issue is AE86. After about 20 minutes of gameplay the game just slows down to a crawl, the textures get messed up etc. I have a far less powerful device (940m, i5 5200u, 8gb, pretty basic but TDU runs smooth). I tried doing what you describe. I installed the game, patch 1.66 and megapack. I then Installed the 1.68b patch, which couldn't get installed (I have Polish version), but after installing 1.67d it installed (the game is in English now but I have the original files stored) and then the Platinum. Sadly, the issue is still there. I tried installing 1.68b again over the Platinum, no luck, tried reinstalling Platinum (copied files again and replaced) and still it's starts to slow down after 20 minutes of gameplay. It works perfect up to that point.

That effect is known to some specific cars, such as the AE86, because the modder who did it, didn't really optmized it for the game.  Sadly, there are no better AE86 mods around, so we must stick with those. But as soon as someone makes one, i suggest the replacement. 

 

3 hours ago, lecatoir said:

Thank you so much for this amazing work @Milli, and all the others moders who bring this game so far, TDU feels so fresh now it(s just amazing !

I only have a question about a car in particular, the TVR T440R. Is she gone or did you make it obtainable by tuner shop ? I bought the Tuscan but apart from get out the roof there is nothing lol.

Still in game, and there are 2 Tuscans... Lol 

[Guest Thrasher9294]

4 hours ago, PiotrGT said:

I have the exact issue as you did Thrasher, it seems to happen with some cars, one I know for sure has this issue is AE86. After about 20 minutes of gameplay the game just slows down to a crawl, the textures get messed up etc. I have a far less powerful device (940m, i5 5200u, 8gb, pretty basic but TDU runs smooth). I tried doing what you describe. I installed the game, patch 1.66 and megapack. I then Installed the 1.68b patch, which couldn't get installed (I have Polish version), but after installing 1.67d it installed (the game is in English now but I have the original files stored) and then the Platinum. Sadly, the issue is still there. I tried installing 1.68b again over the Platinum, no luck, tried reinstalling Platinum (copied files again and replaced) and still it's starts to slow down after 20 minutes of gameplay. It works perfect up to that point. 

Hmm, then certain cars may be the actual cause then--the same time I installed the patch, I also purchased a second vehicle and began using my non-starter cars. My starter car was the Fiat Coupé, and every time I had the slowdown/lag problem it was when driving that car. Since then I've been driving the Nissan Fairlady Z, Volkswagen Corrado, and the NSX Zero (but I only drove that one for around 15 mins before I had to head to work) and haven't had any troubles yet. Strange.

 

[Anthony817]

2 hours ago, Milli said:

That effect is known to some specific cars, such as the AE86, because the modder who did it, didn't really optmized it for the game.  Sadly, there are no better AE86 mods around, so we must stick with those. But as soon as someone makes one, i suggest the replacement.

Wow, well then that explains the issue a person was having last night in the session I was in. I tried to help them go through the motions to try and run the game with elevated permissions and set process priority to high. They had a pretty modern I7 4700K as well as GTX1080. Thus far, I haven't run into any issues with my basic system which is running an FX8350 4ghz 8 core, RX570 and 16GB of GSKILL ram.

[Guest Thrasher9294]

1 hour ago, Anthony817 said:

Wow, well then that explains the issue a person was having last night in the session I was in. I tried to help them go through the motions to try and run the game with elevated permissions and set process priority to high. They had a pretty modern I7 4700K as well as GTX1080. Thus far, I haven't run into any issues with my basic system which is running an FX8350 4ghz 8 core, RX570 and 16GB of GSKILL ram.

Haha, that actually was me Anthony--I was just using LFTRPLLR as my in-game name. I really appreciated the help still, man! And I'd always be down to play again in the future now that we know what's going on.

[Anthony817]

Ah no problem! That is what is great about this community, we always help each other out. Yeah down to cruise whenever man!

[lecatoir]

6 hours ago, Milli said:

That effect is known to some specific cars, such as the AE86, because the modder who did it, didn't really optmized it for the game.  Sadly, there are no better AE86 mods around, so we must stick with those. But as soon as someone makes one, i suggest the replacement. 

 

Still in game, and there are 2 Tuscans... Lol 

Damn i bought the Tuscan S, so it was the other one  Thanks for the help, i'm driving to the dealership !

[umisery]

Is it possible to create a bug report and/or support thread? I've quite a few but don't want to spam the topic each time I come across one or seem like I'm trying to fault the mod, just constructive criticism to help improve.

Bugs found so far:

Many cars don't have sound in certain views and/or when looking back.

Cockpit cameras for some cars are too close to the steering wheel.

Some manual cars have paddle shift animation for the driver.

Buying any of the "TDU Platinum" cars at the custom dealerships seems to cause random game crashes when opening the map (still have to test and confirm this one), correlation =/= causation  

[ABC83]

On 4/23/2019 at 12:58 AM, Milli said:

Apparently it has an error, because the database exceeded the 1000 car count. I knew about TDUPE having such error with 1000+ modded TDU, but thought it would be fine as long as i don't make TDUPE read 1000 cars.  But that seems to not be the case.  There is a solution, but it is troublesome. 

- Open TDUPE, mod it as you like.
- Save and close. 
- Open TDU Modding Tools and extract the CarPhysicsData.db from the DB.bnk
- Decrypt it, using TDU UT. 
- Change the total car count to 1105
- Save and close.
- Encrypt it using TDU UT.
- Replace the CarPhysicsData.db with the modded one, inside the DB.bnk
- Run the game. 


Or, you could use TDUF, which in my opinion, once you get used to how it looks, it's a much better and efficient tool. 

Thank's Milli, i will give it a try. 

[Ryzza5]

Milli has a 'Club' on the forums for TDU Platinum.  You could perhaps create Topics in there as bug reports or support requests.

https://turboduck.net/forums/forum/183-topics/

 

A Club is like a subforum that any member can create and members can choose to join the clubs.

[Tadpole]

13 hours ago, Guest Thrasher9294 said:

Hmm, then certain cars may be the actual cause then--the same time I installed the patch, I also purchased a second vehicle and began using my non-starter cars. My starter car was the Fiat Coupé, and every time I had the slowdown/lag problem it was when driving that car. Since then I've been driving the Nissan Fairlady Z, Volkswagen Corrado, and the NSX Zero (but I only drove that one for around 15 mins before I had to head to work) and haven't had any troubles yet. Strange.

For what it's worth, I've made a list back in 2018 of the cars I had played with through UCP, listing which ones had lag (including their severity), and which didn't. We should all combinate to make a list of which cars are known to be laggy, so people can avoid them.

Edited April 24, 2019 by Tadpole

[Milli]

10 hours ago, umisery said:

Is it possible to create a bug report and/or support thread? I've quite a few but don't want to spam the topic each time I come across one or seem like I'm trying to fault the mod, just constructive criticism to help improve.

Bugs found so far:

Many cars don't have sound in certain views and/or when looking back.

Cockpit cameras for some cars are too close to the steering wheel.

Some manual cars have paddle shift animation for the driver.

Buying any of the "TDU Platinum" cars at the custom dealerships seems to cause random game crashes when opening the map (still have to test and confirm this one), correlation =/= causation  

Which vehicles are missing the sounds? So i can check them out.

Cockpit cameras are not a bug, if i bring the camera further back, you will see a headless neck appearing in your screen... so, yeah, no.  To fix that only unlocking the car file .bnk. 

Also, which cars that are manual that have paddle shift animation? 

TDU Platinum cars are not really meant to be driven in that form. Lol 

[MagicV8]

15 minutes ago, Milli said:

...
Cockpit cameras are not a bug, if i bring the camera further back, you will see a headless neck appearing in your screen... so, yeah, no.  To fix that only unlocking the car file .bnk. 
....

In the Options > Game Settings > Seat Position he could can change highs and lows. My seat was too close there.

[Milli]

3 minutes ago, MagicV8 said:

In the Options > Game Settings > Seat Position he could can change highs and lows. My seat was too close there.

Also helps. But some cars really had to get a "closer" view.  I tested all the cameras in the lowest and further back possible in the "Seat Position" menu, to really avoid the headless neck from appearing on screen. Lol

[Angie79]

Great news. I reinstall TDU. Thank you Mili

[PiotrGT]

Workaround for those who experience the slowdown with some cars and use the game mostly to just drive around. Just add a bookmark when the game slows down, alt+f4, launch tdu, use bookmark and you're right where you left off on the map and you can continue your road trip. I use a 100% save (it had many cars but I was able to sell them without a single crash) so that I don't have to worry about cash and buying a car with the issue.

With the workaround I can finally play the game and have fun. If the AI was better it would have been an amazing Forza Horizon alternative but it's fun to just drive around, avoiding traffic etc. Time based challenges are also good fun.  Thank You @Milli for phenomenal work on the mod. The car list is spot on. I noticed you removed Audi R8 V8 since UCP (the V10 looks amazing though!), and there are no Minis but there are so many cars you just can't decide what to drive next. Been having lots of fun today. 

Edited April 25, 2019 by PiotrGT