vit-jan0

You have not addressed everything what I have mentioned, but your description may suggest internet issue which possible solutions (i am aware about) i have described in previous post. Regarding read-me.  file, i have the file named "ReadMe.txt" which contains this. I meant that it is important to follow especially this part: "check the GameSpy ID case and NOT TO CHANGE YOUR EMAIL OR PASSWORD OR YOUR SAVEGAME WILL BE RESET!". If you wish, PM me if you have questions to what i have suggested.

Yes. It would be nice if more players are aware and open appropriate port on their end.
"1. you need to wait maybe even couple of minutes. 2) You may also not connect some players if you have not forwarded port 8889 on your router, or not enabled DMZ on router for your LAN PC. You need to search in your router device settings or your router name and port forwarding on search engines. 3) menu Options / Online has a tickbox for Online interactions - make sure it is allowed. To meet with other people is best in less crowded places on the map. Orange GPS icon means unable to connect someone(or anyone?), static blue means no one near to connect."
If you still fail to connect and are enough dedicated to open port, you may use a VPN that allows that. I think that you can imagine right search phrase to find some.

Another one is here in TDUF thread , it explain various parameters of car performance. But before that, you may need to know how to work in TDUF.

On the TDU1 map, when red squares (players) turn yellow what it means and what can i do about that? Thanks
@Djey

hopefully someone will better reply, maybe problem is that "you have not forwarded port 8889 on your router, or not enabled DMZ on router for your LAN PC. You need to search in your router device settings or your router name and port forwarding on search engines." There are also other port numbers, but i am not sure why so many and if others than one i have mentioned adds any benefits. Btw. if this does not help, it can help to connect via proxy - using VPN which allows port forwarding (not all support it).

Some feedback regarding game installation issues (game not launching, missing d3d) and how it was fixed:
After installing TDU1, applying 1.66A patch, game complains about SECUROM.
After applying n0-dvd patch exe, the game does not start (the small game window with black background appear for a second).
After i apply ProjectParadise d3d9.dll to the game direcory, and launch PP exe, it can not find d3dx9_43.dll
After i download and run DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) (directx_Jun2010_redist.exe) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 it extracted files and i run extracted DXSETUP.exe file, it install DX update.
Win.+R; dxdiag; continue to show that i am running DirectX 11.
THen i install graphics card drivers using SDIO (Snappy Driver Instraller Origin) and reboot.
Game started launching through paradise launcher. (maybe DX update not did it, maybe graphics drivers & reboot)
In order to use my existing TDU profile backup folder, i have not known where it belongs so i created new profile in game, not ticking GameSpy and quit game.
Now copied my profile backups - "MyGameNickname" folder and ProfileList.dat file to C:\Users\me\Documents\Test Drive Unlimited\savegame\
and launch the game again.
Following all tutorials/readme's in Platinum and PP pack, installing graphics drivers and reboot, game is working

It looked like that, but i may be wrong. When i have NOT ticked the GameSpy, it caused that the game menu contained new entry for starting new game (Assuming no progress from beginning) and the menu entry to continue game was no longer available. So good to tick the GameSpy checkbox if prompted inside the game and backup C:\Users\YOURUSERAMEHERE\Documents\Test Drive Unlimited\savegame\YOYURNICKNAME directory before you start using game. Actually good to link it to Desktop and backup it from time to time. Maybe good to backup whole savegame which contains also profilelist file.

Thank you for setting up the server again. Hopefully there will be backups and it will not come down for good in the future.
Guys and gals, before you run the game again, note that i had an issue where my profile was invalidated and i had to restore backup, so prevent trouble:
IN PP launcher i disabled Offline, and then it shown issue with my online profile. I have not ticked GameSpy and that was problem, it invalidated my profile (was unable to get into profile configuration screen again) and i had to restore it from backup (C:\Users\User\Documents\Test Drive Unlimited\savegame\MyUsername folder) and then tick the GameSpy ID to let me in.

Beside what yitianetie mentioned, another issue is that there is no traffic/bots in this setup:

(same happen when all is unticked)
Game is ran on Linux via Wine. (same as  yitianetie ?)
The process command line is: TestDriveUnlimited.exe -fps -bigbnks -races
I have verified that the Traffic folder + files is there in Euro/Bnk/Vehicules. @Djey

Yes. It would be nice if more players are aware and open appropriate port on their end.
"1. you need to wait maybe even couple of minutes. 2) You may also not connect some players if you have not forwarded port 8889 on your router, or not enabled DMZ on router for your LAN PC. You need to search in your router device settings or your router name and port forwarding on search engines. 3) menu Options / Online has a tickbox for Online interactions - make sure it is allowed. To meet with other people is best in less crowded places on the map. Orange GPS icon means unable to connect someone(or anyone?), static blue means no one near to connect."
If you still fail to connect and are enough dedicated to open port, you may use a VPN that allows that. I think that you can imagine right search phrase to find some.

I think that someone said in-game that he is using xbox 360. I am using box one and works OK (except sticks has dead zones - that possibly can not be fixed due to game being closed source code, but you can learn to drive decently anyway)
Installation may be tricky:
https://internetlifeforum.com/showthread.php?15161-How-i-setup-install-MS-Xbox-One-Wireless-controller-1697-adapter-on-Windows-7

After months of not being able to understand why the game would black screen then not start ( windows 10 ) I finally have an answer. Anyone trying to run surround sound through windows can have a problem with a litany of games. But TDU ( even base game not Platinum or any other custom version ) does not like having the Default Format set to either Dolby Digital Live or DTS Interactive.
If you are getting a black screen after startup even on a fresh install of windows 10/TDU, try changing your sound options in Your audio device properties. What is boxed in red does not work. The blue highlight is what I have currently selected. 
How to get to this page.

Right click the speaker icon on the bottom right of the screen>Volume mixer>Click the icon for what you are using>Go to advanced tab and select any option but surround options.

Exclusive modes dont change anything.

Use the 4gb executables provided in the patch 1.12
The reason why that happens is not because of your computer, but an issue with some cars and the original tdu.exe. 
Original TDU.exe can only use 1gb of ram memory, and some cars, like that R33, have some bug that causes a memory leak (will be fixed in the update), which makes the .exe need to use beyond 1gb of ram.  Once it asks for more, the game bottle necks it, causing that issue. 
 
With the 4gb executables, that memory usage gets bumped to 4gb. I won't say it will completelly fix it, but it sure will take a LOT longer to happen. 

Check the troubleshooting guide here if you haven't already.
I would suggest starting over with a new install to rule out whatever extra changes you've made. Install TDU base game and drop Platinum on top of it, apply the 1.12 patch. Then go through the troubleshooting guide.
Also there were reports of some versions like TDU Gold causing issues.  It should be fine, but check archive.org or abandonware sites for other isos if necessary.

I would like the idea if we had a bigger group of people making improvements, cause then it would have made sense to make some sort of a spreadsheet of things needed to be done, and assign those things to different people and have it all a bit more coordinated. In the current situation tho, I'm not sure if that's really worth it. 

Trust me, as a person that's trying to help her with it, I can confirm that it's very time consuming. Even on my own mods I didn't get the dials to work correctly. I will update them sometime with new fixes and what not but doing it for each and every single car with that problem on top of what's already planned would be tough.
I would suggest trying it out yourself. If there were more people helping her maybe we could get it done.

Ferrari FXX audio mod VJ
View File I disliked erroneous Platinum pack Enzo FXX sound so i spent numerous hours learning and trying to make my sound mod. I based it on the sounds from the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFy17tL2NiQ The resulting sound is not stereo (i think the TDU1 needs mono). Also somehow the Audacity software which i have used was unable to amplify the volume of the imported .mp3 more without quality loss, thus the resulting quality is rubbish. Note also erroneous looping in high speed and RPM due to my soundtrack start and end is different (i am unsure if i will have energy to fix it and beside that also replace "default" sounds when gas pedal is not pushed, yet current state does not bother me and i think is better than Platinum sound). In this mod i only worked with 3 sound tracks for RPM where gas pedal is pushed, rest 3 when pedal is not pushed i left default for now. For each track i changed pitch (option in the Audacity - so the sound is different in various RPM - maybe not necessary or bad idea. One can change pitch and the speed. When changing speed, then one needs very long steady sound which may be problem to find on the internet. One may edit the sound manually, but it is too difficult and time consuming to return something good. Better to use long sound track and find part with steady RPM from beginning to the end. Nik Golič already written a tutorial on how to mod the sounds. https://turboduck.net/forums/topic/37088-tutorial-how-to-make-a-sound-mod-for-tdu/ and i also composed my own tutorial which i added to his topic. PS: if you dislike my work, i can send you original audio files so you make a better quality sound. This car really deserve it guys Actual .bnk file (last updated 5/16/2020) needs to be added to C:\Program Files (x86)\Atari\Test Drive Unlimited\Euro\Bnk\Sound\Vehicules\ backing up original file is advised. PREVIEW sound: click Download link to download short video. (If You want Youtube preview, please upload video to Youtube and PM me the link, i will publish it here.)
Submitter vit-jan0 Submitted 02/13/2022 Category Car customization  

Hello friends, i need help. I installed tdu gold, patch 2.00. The game started without any problems. When i started the game through tdu project paradise, for a few seconds the screen was black and the game fell/crash. Is there a flake solution to make the game work? Thank you for your response. I think there will be a problem with the d3d9.dll file. Is it possible to modify the d3d9.dll file in any program so that it works on the latest computers and notebooks processors with integrated graphics?
👌 Problem solved. This is how I proceeded and everything works. First I downloaded this directx DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) installed, restarted pc. I installed the original game, patch 1.66a, I used tdu registry fixer 1.2, megacarpack, crack testdriveunlimited.exe, patch 1.68b, I finally put tdu project paradise in the game folder and the game started without any problems. This procedure works for me offline! I haven't tried online mode.

Tank you.

You need to use a torrent browser for this file type.
Then, after downloading the zip via torrent, you can use 7-zip to extract the final zip.

He should make a tutorial. Here is how to load TDU1 database in TDUF:
0) download TDUF & run gui-common inside SW folder
image tutorial (official TDUF thread). Description of various car physics parameters here.

Question is why you don't want it? Platinum original graphics is almost as original, if you properlly install it. It is as light as original aswell. 
It won't have night, or bright pink skies you often see in videos or photos. Those are more likely post mods people often add and mess up the graphics. 
If i were you, i'd give it a try, don't think you'll regret.

View File TDUF - Most advanced modding tools for TDU so far!
TDUF package is a set of tools and libraries, which is able to:
Check Bnk1.map contents and update it with new files in Euro/Bnk folder. Extract the whole TDU Database to JSON files (a human-readable format, ready to be processed by many tools and languages, including Javascript). Rewrite the whole TDU Database from modified JSON files Check and repair Database for integrity errors Help to understand file formats and read/write data from/to them Provide a Database Editor user interface, which wide range of features (not limited to TDUMT/TDUPE ones) and more to come! See zipped-in README.html file for details.
Requirements and notes:
Java 8 Runtime Environment: Java SE Runtime Environment 8 - Downloads - or embedded JRE (links in README.html file) If using  TDUF 1.12.0 with Java 9 or 10, a tweak is necessary to make TDUF work properly: extract attached hotfix (
TDUF-1.12.0-HOTFIX-JAVA-9-10.zip) to tduf/tools/cli directory (replace existing files) If using TDUF 1.12 with 32bit version of Windows, extract attached hotfix (
DatabaseEditor-1.12.0-HOTFIX-32bit.zip) to tduf/tools/cli directory (replace existing files) TDUF 1.13.0 won't support 32bit Windows editions TDUMT must work normally TDU installed (some modified editions are not supported).  
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Submitter Djey Submitted 05/17/2019 Category Tools / Others  

Have you ever drove them? Just because it says 418, doesn't mean it can reach such speed. 
 
But, that has been explained many many times, including in the FAQ section. To simulate the gearbox of each car realistically, the "Top Speed" value must be set as the theorical speed the final gear can handle, ignoring power, drag, etc. 
Cars that have an "overdrive" gear, will display way higher values in top speed, because their last gear is extremelly long, made to save fuel.  When you race a Corvette, you don't shift to 6th, it is only there to save fuel. 

I think it is a good idea to see if there is a way we could donate so that Milli can fix her laptop or get a new one to continue working on Platinum 2. I also don't have much but I could help out with a few bucks...