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Is the dealership full of TDU special cars supposed to be that?

Have you made room for future expansion or do I have an issue?

or

Are there secrets to be unlocked / found?

8 hours ago, Milli said:

I beg to differ. 
 

 

As you can see in this video, it understeers quite easily if you really push it.

 

 

 

Doesnt count, long wheelbase, twin rear wheels and super skinny fronts, maybe thats where mine gets its grip from, 18x8 " alloys and 255/60/18 tyres might help.

5 hours ago, iZ GunDaM said:

I love the fact that you can buy a Ford Transit van AND a Volkswagen Type 2, Rebuilda.

 

There's an even faster version of the former, too. *hint hint*

@Milli  I'm not going to be the one that tells you empty transits rarely understeer as over 60% of the weight is over the front wheels. If I ever get the chance to take my transit on a trackday I'll upload the video to back that up. I drive it like I stole it. Body roll by the bucket load but no understeer.

@iZ GunDaM Havent looked for the type 2 Dub yet will have to fix that.
Sounds like you are referring to one of the 'Supervan' Transits. Of course, no one in their right mind would build a transit on a race car chassis  

Goodwood motor racing circuit has a tasty transit. Based on, well... watch the video

1 hour ago, Milli said:

To make it have a stiffer suspension and 5-speed gearbox, i would need to create another entry in the database.  But that is not really how TDU tuning works, they work with % upgrades of the "base" car, unless you change the base car, by making it use another database entry. 

That means even though they look the same, there will be 2 entries in the database for it. So if you edit the stock one, you will need to edit the other one aswell. 

Thanks Milli.

Don't get me wrong, I love driving the four speed leaning machine. I was just being a bit over geeky with my 'tuned Fords' thing.
That being said... the stage 3 transit is mental  quite a challenge to drive, very difficult to keep it in a straight line in first and second. That also seems to suffer with excessive body roll and understeer, are the two linked in some way.

Sadly we don't see many 3.2L transits in the UK, mines a 2.4 and struggles to hit 110kph due to poor gearing and wind resistance. 

On 5/2/2019 at 4:54 AM, Milli said:

It is not "Necessary", it is recommended though.  What i suggest is that you take the Alfa GT out, and save the game. Then you install the mod. That way when you load up the profile, it won't risk to crash as soon as it loads up. 

Now, the risk of that some cars that you had previously don't work correctly, is there. So, do it at your own risk. 

Edit: Also, if you really don't want to lose your vehicles, make a backup of the profiles, so you can pop them back in case you want to play original TDU again. Like, 2 different TDU installations in different folders...

I installed Platinum last night using the following method.

Sell duplicate cars, make second backup while saved driving Alfa GT. Installed Platinum, loaded OK, all good.

Retained bank balance, retained houses and all the cars left in game not modified. Gained a few new cars that must have replaced the old ones, lost a few modded cars but I can live with that.

Went straight out and bought a Transit Van  love it. Hate driving with a pad so the G27 is coming out and i'm off for a hoon.

Once again my thanks to Milli and the team who have kept this alive, love you guys.

Why did I make my first purchase a transit? Because this is my daily transport. 

EDIT - I bought the RS1600 mk1 Escort. In standard trim the 4 gears and suspension roll are fine. At 3rd stage tuning on one of these it would have 5 gears using a type 9 ford gearbox and would also have much stiffer suspension, better anti roll bars so body roll would be greatly reduced. Understeer would also be minimised, at the moment it's a bit too light at the front. - I'm only nit picking because I've driven one and know how they handle quite well. I do still love the fact there is an original RS in this game.

Well I blinked and missed this bit... 
I've played and streamed TDU via project paradise a couple of times using my old profile in the last few months. Not really had much time for games recently until I saw the YT video... Sat there with my chin on my desk for a while and tonight finally did the download.
So impressed, utterly gobsmacked, Milli and the whole team involved with keeping this alive. 
Thought i'd log in and say this before I start to play with the game files. That may have to wait as it's nearly 1am here in the UK.

Once again you have my thanks, who would have thought this was possible after Atari killed the servers all those years ago.

To Ryzza, Pogo, Duke and all the sunday night cruisers, I'm hopeful to see you all once again on Oahu. Time to go and recreate some of those hardcore stunts we all used to love.

EDIT... I just looked at my user profile... 9 years since I signed up for TDUC  OMG

TDU first played in 2007, Ace project done and reading through the install notes it appears I have to sell all 165 cars    Is this still required or is there a work around which will allow me to keep all my current assets?

Right ho lads, probably a bit late in the evening for some of the UK lads but I'm going in...

Cheers lads.

I'll have a play with that later. Mods... got a few already, even retained the winter mod on a separate executable... Had a drive last night and found about 35 people online, those I did bump into were all good connections so everything appears to be running better than when Atari hosted it - no surprises there then.

Hi Ryan, long time mate :)

Oddly enough I was showing one of your videos to one of the lads that works for me, seems he has the xbox version and was quite amazed to see what could be done on a PC :nods:

First off thanks to Speeder and the TDU revamp team for being totally awesome.

I was online the night the servers got killed and despite many attempts to replace my TDU addiction, I failed.

I've been missing this and now you have given it back to me so thanks again.

To all my old cruising buddies, Duke, Pogo, Col - time to polish the caterhams lads...;)

Now my only gripe is the G27 fix is missing from the host at the end of the link on the first page, I will admit to skipping the last 40 pages of this thread as I got fed up with reading comments from other people who failed to read the first post properly.I have spent the last few nights reading the first 140 pages though...

Has the G27 fix been removed or am I just missing a trick here.

Hey Phil.

I agree with ScoobSTi, The Crew is the closest I've seen so far and it's big... way bigger than TDU. I had a couple of hours on the beta but using the keyboard I was useless... ;)

Hi Chaps. long time no see.

Just like to point out that you lot have done an awesome job and shown remarkable patience with this. Well done.

I'm just starting a clean install of the game from the original DVD but would like to progress it through to a fully modded version. Is there anything I need to watch for that may trip me up other than the update servers being slow?

All the best and keep up the awesome work.

Adrian

ETA which file/folder do I need to recover from the old install to bring my profile over into the new install?

Now THATS rare @Rebuilda! :D

 

Never seen any sort of Dutton before, let alone someone with two! Whats the little two seater? Only car I knew of off hand was the Sierra, never knew about the two seater.(Though it was a Scimitar Sabre until I looked at your other photos on flicker!). What are they based on? I know the Sierra was mostly made using ford bits.

Mk1 and Mk2 escort mainly but over the years Dutton used triumph donors at first, then fords.

The little green one is a Legerra ZS and there were about 180 kits built between '88 and '90. 2037cc pinto, 5 speed box and RWD. 685kg dry weight.

The Sierra is a 1993cc pinto, 5 speed box and also RWD, rescued from a breakers as a chassis/body and recommissionsed for less than £500 inc purchase price. Tax exempt due to the age of the original donor vehicle its just cheap motoring.

Check the Dutton Owners Club gallery pages for the rest of the 'flock'. he made quite a few different ones over the years.

Hmmm... Two, who said I only had two ? :nuts:

I have two Legerra's, the Sierra and a Phaeton series 4, the other two are off road.

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Welcome back buddy :D You're G25 is still going strong here! Tend to drive my own car more these days though as I have a nice Nardi Torino leather wheel in that :cheeky:

Hi Dan. :hiya:

It was Duke that prompted me with a text message, its good to know most of the gang is still around and I'm sure if they ever make a server that works we'd all be back on it PDQ.

An acquaintance of mine called Emily and her band Pythia...

We're all still lurking Pogo, just lurking, biding our time.

Old skool, H mode madness. Everything else is for wimps...;)

I am somewhat amazed to find this thread is still live and so decided to post a couple of my two toys. The green one is back aways on another page in history but the blue tonka toy is the winter car.

BTW, hello all in TDU 1 land that remember me, I certainly seen some names on here that bring back memories of good cruises...

IMAG0305 by Adrian Southgate, on Flickr

My Dutton Sierra II by Adrian Southgate, on Flickr

Well, i've not been here for quite some time, so glad to see that things haven't changed that much.

I have just emailed Eden asking who owns the rights to the server side programme that ran TDU.

IF I get an answer I will let you know.

IF you feel like joining in and asking them for some action please feel free to chip in either by email or via facebook etc. Atari are, in my mind, a waste of space, never supported the game properly right from it's release date and certainly took advantage of the many fans of TDU, took the money and then let them down.

Ubisoft wouldn't have done this to the fans, the FAR CRY 1 servers are still active to this day and thats even older than TDU.

Too often these days people are ripped off by big companies who are only in it for the profit, Atari seem to have turned into one of those companies and I, like many others, will never buy another Atari game.

They didn't listen to the beta testers on TDU2 who told them the physics were pants, the wheel support was pants and that they could have done a much better job by just expanding on the original game with DLC. I think there is still enough people out there who would support the original game if it were updated and hosted properly. Stick your 2p's worth in and mail them.

I feel really let down at this moment.

As stated in so many threads on the beta forums, the car handling is crap.

Despite all the very technical feedback the devs got from the beta testers no real improvements were made in the physics engine and there are still a lot of features that don't work or weren't programmed.

NFS style handling is just not up to scratch in this day and age.

@ Diablo. If you were trying to promote a driving game would you ship a beta that had crap handling?

How daft are they? All the time and effort that was put into the feedback on the handling seems to have been for nothing if they didn't give us a decent physics model to play in the first place.

If true then I am disgusted they would do that to people who genuinely tried to help make the game better. If untrue and the beta handling carries forward into the final release then I won't bother. It will be such a let down for all the players who put so much effort in. The handling in the beta is an insult to anyone who drives a real car, making the final release that bad will surely spell doom for what was promising to be such a good sequel.

Hardcore mode in TDU is a blessing compared to what they have at the moment in the beta.

I will happily put my trust in Djey and the other selected members of the team to make a grand job of this.:thumbsup:

After the amount of work done in TDU1 to make it better for the rest of us, who else could they have asked...?

Apart from Ryzza, Me, Doob, Pogo, CFC.... :)

So, I've bumped this again as a known issue, G27's just dont give force feed back in TDU1. Has anyone found a workaround for this.

From what i've read ver 1.46 supported the G27 or provided some form of generic driver compatability for it but ver 1.66 / 1.67 do not. Some one on here must be able to source the file thats different that makes this the case.

If its just one file from the early version (pre-patch) surely it can be restored / added into Ver 1.66.

Am I the only one that uses a G27 on TDU these days? I just took out the G25 and replaced it with the G27 again. Keep swapping controller setups is a pain in the backside. There must be a fix for it?

wanted the g25 but couldn't find anywhere that had it in stock, so got the g27. should come on monday cant wait 900 rotation yay:thumbsup:

So.. drag it back up again... How did you find the G27?

I have tried one since the above message was posted and found that there was no FFB in TDU. Bit of a let down really.

Have any of the clever programmer types on here managed to edit the file which the game uses to recognise game controllers?

BUMP

Glad you got it sorted.

May I suggest making one of those hirens discs and keeping it safe 'just in case'.

I repair laptops and PC's for a living, including forensic data recovery.

One of the first steps we use is a program called the hard drive regenerator. This ignores all types of file systems and works on the surface of the disk byte for byte.

I assume you have access to another PC or laptop as you have been on here.

Google 'hirens', download the ISO file for the latest version. Make sure you check it for viruses before trying to burn it onto a CD. This will create a bootable CD on which the program is stored (along with loads of other useful stuff) load the 'hirens boot disk' choice from the menu, select hard drive tools, HDD regenerator from the dos style menu system. This program can recover bad sectors on the hard drive. Its easy to work with and a good place to start when trying data recovery.

If this doesn't work post back here and there are other tools that can be tried.

The most important thing is that the bios of the computer can see the hard drive and identify it correctly. Normally if this is ok the the HDD can be recovered.

I know that some of you guys have pretty decent cameras, so i've decided to make this thread so you can post pics of them and any extra lenses/filters/accessories you have to go with it :) Or even if you have a simple little compact camera, post it anyway!

 

I'll start with mine

 

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi (400D)

- 10.1MP

- Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

- Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6

- Massa UV Filter

- HD Polarising Filter

- 58mm Lens Hood

Thats quite scary...

My main camera.

EOS 400d

Canon 18-55

Canon 75-300

Skylight filter on both

Polarising filter kept in the bag.

Dash camera fitted to the kit car

Canon sureshot 450

great for doing in car video for you tube.

Digital video camera

Canon (CBA to go and get it from downstairs.)

Underwater HD video camera

Sanyo Xacti VPC-WH1EX

Records 1hr40m+ on 8Gb HCSD card @1080p

Not so sure I would trust it to 10ft of water pressure though, seen too many blown up ones full of salt crystals.

I'll add some pictures tomorrow, too late to be messing about now.

Next doors cat :D

-snip-

Poor thing looks like he just met your Huskys...

[mod edit:] Please do not quote images, thanks!