I need some technical assistance please

[Tysmyster]

Hello all,

 

The other day, when I decided to fire up TDU, I ran into some trouble.

The game started up, showed me the intro clips, I hit enter, it goes to the loading screen with the red GT40 and then, when it goes to the main menu, the screen starts to flash like I am constantly holding down alt-tab or something. I see a black windowed TDU which is flashing and I see windows in the background. The game is at this point still running because I can hear the menu sounds when I move up and down or press enter. As soon as I press enter though, the game will crash completely and close down. It almost looks like the video resolution is not supported.

 

So, I figured I'd take out my savefiles so TDU would start freshly and have me make a new profile. This worked, the game started up as it was supposed to and everything worked fine.

I then put my savegame back in but the same problem started happening again.

I suspect that the problem might be the resolution that the profile is set to (although I have no idea how it would have changed) is not supported or something and causes this to happen. Problem is that I can't access the game and change the resolution from within the game menus. That's why I was wondering if you guys, with all your knowledge of the TDU files, might know if there's a way to change the resolution outside of the game.

I would really hate to have to give up my profile which has so many hours in it.

I hope you guys can help me out on this, I really don't want to start over again, I always drive in HC mode so with a new profile it will take me forever to get to the required level again.

 

Thanks for reading.

[RX_37]

Right-click on the Shortcut -> Properties -> Compaility -> Mark "Run in 640x480"

[Rodrighazzo]

maybe, you could remember the step, step by step, how to reach to the resolution, ( with the new profile) and then how many times you need to press left key, to reach a resolution like 800x600, all this using the keyboard, so, i recommend toput the laser of the mouse upside, with that way you could try using the keyboard and reaching to go there and change the resolution.

And outside there is a solution, but i dont remember too much, i think that you need to change some numbers ( that are of resolution) in the .exe file of the TDU, but i dont remember too much >.<

And there is another one ( that i found), is going to the .exe file of the TDU, then left click and then Proprieties, then upthere go to COmpatibility, and Tick one it says Run with a resolution of 640 x 480, then ( i think) you go inside the game and thengo to options and change the resolution to a lower one, after that, go to proprieties one more, and disactivate the Run with 640 x 480, and maybe will you with the resolution that you put inside ( the lower resolution one).

 

I dont anything more about that, just try those and good luck! ^^

[BobbyV]

I've had the same problem with my old profile. I didn't know the solution then but later some1 came out with a simple trick. Try reinstalling display driver, updating it or even reverting it to an older version. This will automatically set TDU display resolution to default.

also....u can add +W after the command line in desktop start-up icon. This will open the game in windowed mode, with the default resolution. Then u can set the settings as u wish. It won't be changed immediately, but next time u start the game in full screen mode u should be fine....

[Tysmyster]

Thank you guys for your swift responses. I first tried the compatibilty tab to run it in 640x480 mode but the problem persisted.

Then I tried to add -w to the command line and starting up in a window helped to get rid of the problem! I went to video settings but the resolution was set to what it was supposed to be. All the graphic settings had reverted to default though. That was probably because I updated my graphics drivers to the latest version recently.

I think all it needed was a healthy startup, because after closing TDU down again, I was able to start the game using my own profile, in full screen mode, without any problems.

 

Thank you! :thumbsup:

 

Now to try out some of these mods you have here! :D

[BobbyV]

Glad it helped! :thumbsup:

[ShadowGT]

This game can be played windowed?

[Tysmyster]

appearantly so. :)

 

Just add -w to the command line just like you can add -fps to get an ingame fps counter. Which is enormously inconveniently placed btw, whenever I have it on I keep missing half of the chat.