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Will there be an update to the TDU Platinum mod?

On 2/8/2023 at 3:43 PM, JacobJakub said:

And don't know what happened during development this mod, but somebody totaly screw up Data List/Specification Sheet and Cars Score, especially on all US cars and on Aston Martin and MCLaren....
Mclaren Senna goes 444km/h xDDDDDD hahahahah, that was good joke. I won this car today and it goes weakly 320km/h, and slow down on 7th gear x.x 
I don't know what is wrong with some cars, in-game performance, or Data presentation in dealers..... 

If you want to do anything with this mod, please, fix this problem, to make game+mod more clear and work well.

Scroll down to the mod's F.A.Q. section and read:
https://turboduck.net/forums/topic/35843-released-test-drive-unlimited-platinum-v121/?_rid=35975

In short: game's technical limitations; the game was not designed to be modded. Hacks and tricks had to be used.
Also, there's only one dev of this mod, Milli, and she ain't a super hacker and she does this on her very little spare time. Be grateful that Platinum mod even exists in the first place.

On 2/8/2023 at 3:43 PM, JacobJakub said:

#2 Problem. Game renderer randoms freeze in still black after minimize-maximize. At the start of my journey, every popup or minimize try was equal with close game compulsion. But when I activate V-Sync in mod-menu, before main game start, problem not dissapear, but show up more rare than often. 60% times I can hide, and go back to game without Black screen. Othertimes, you know, ALT-F4 and fast restart.

Game is old, from 2007, and runs with compatibility issues on newer versions of Windows. This is one of those games which loves to freeze-crash when minimized. There's nothing you can do about it except get a separate machine with Windows XP. Microsoft will continue designing modern versions of Windows to not support old software.

On 2/8/2023 at 3:43 PM, JacobJakub said:

1# Problem, random fps drop. That was cause by Fiat Coupe 20V. My First F-class Car. I bought Toyota Celica, sell Fiat, and problem never come back. Profit.

Cars in v1.21 have not been verified for stability or compatibility at all. Many have graphical errors which cause memory leaks, other performance issues and may even crash the game. Maybe will be fixed in TDUP v2.0.

1 hour ago, koboltzz said:

Is this supposed to use with 'fx tweak' off,sd or hd?

From my own experience "fx tweak" should never be touched at all as it will permanently break the visuals.

It could be just anything:
https://www.technewstoday.com/pc-randomly-turns-off/#what-causes-a-pc-to-turn-off-randomly

I've never had such an issue. Only rare BSODs. If your PC simply powers off, then you may have some sort of hardware issue.
Have you overclocked anything? Is your PSU actually capable of providing the watts? Is your mobo capable of handling the power? So many variables need figuring out...

Can anybody say if it is safe to use this mod with TDU Platinum v1.21?

Questions:
Will applying Hawaiian Bliss v4.0 mod on top of v1.21 ruin the fixes of v.1.21?
Or maybe I should apply HB on top of v1.0 and then apply the v1.21 update?
Or is HB mod obsolete in case of v1.21 and should not be used?

On 10/30/2021 at 8:37 PM, RsZ28 said:

Milli has gotten herself a new computer and was able to recuperate the hard drive. If you go on the discord server of Turboduck, you'll see she's working on new things for the game. But it's not something easy to do. All the stuff she figure out, take a lot of time. She's really doing something HARD with all that customization. Give her some time. Don't forget she also have a life outside of making these mods.

I knew the progress is slow, but I didn't know she got herself a computer. Good to read she's back in action.

On 11/1/2021 at 12:47 AM, cyzio said:

I tried 4GB tool and that didn't work but then I launched game without paradise launcher that means without Vsync too and that worked, traffic was so bugged but at least i could beat that race.

Btw, can you do a little test? Unless you've done so before.
Start the game with Paradise Launcher, enable Vsync, Big .bnk and Offline, but in game, under VIDEO, set REFRESH RATE to 60 Hz. And then try doing that race again. I want to know if setting 60 Hz helps.

I wonder if anybody else could finish Milli's work on Platinum v2? Milli, can you even access your WIP files? I don't know how your laptop died.

Dear @Milli, how's the progress on 2.0? Have you given up on it yet? I once read you mentioning it and I'm still eager to try it out when it is ready. Should I keep waiting for it, fingers crossed, or just stick with 1.12?

3 hours ago, Jkgo said:

Out of curiosity, I ticked on the "offline" part in the Paradise Launcher menu a couple of days ago.

I'm not sure if it was a bug or not, but what happened was...

I was basically bombarded with AI traffic cars. Every. Freaking. Where. There were so many AI traffic cars, in fact, AI opponent cars in races were constantly crashing into them. Kinda hilarious to watch, but not actually any fun to participate in...

Seriously though, was that a bug?

Did you check the race parameters? Do the races mention heavy traffic? If yes, then that's normal.

On 2/2/2021 at 8:13 PM, Milli said:

I started it in August 2016. It got released in April 2019. But i am still updating it, so, yeah. Lol 

I still can't wait for the v2.0

Does that affect 0-60? Because Kawasaki Z1000's 0-60 is what makes it win. Max speed wise I assume this model would lose in a straight road race.

I have TDU Platinum installed. I bought a mB which performance numbers looked great. I tried my very first mB race with it. Failed, got 3rd. Thought maybe my bike is rigged. Tried second time with another bike which numbers are just slightly lower. Failed again. I took a closer look at winner's bike: all times it was Kawasaki Z1000. So I bought that same model to myself. And finally won the race. That bike doesn't have great numbers, but why the hell is it the most agile of all mBs? What numbers do I have to pay attention to, to make sure my vehicle is the best? Or is it because TDU Platinum added vehicles don't display numbers correctly?

8 hours ago, NitrousX said:

Quick question in my game on the map i see two car shops called TDU Custom 1 & 2 but when I enter the shops they show the generic car you see when you do not have the mods or dlc. When I installed the platinum mod i installed the base game then patched it to the 1.12 update is this correct way of patching the game? Thanks

Those shops are placeholders for custom cars you add yourself.

Oh, that's why it always reminded me of the moon. And I always wondered when will I see the pretty scene just like in HB's screenshots. But, I can swear I never edited any of the files. Maybe I downloaded some obsolete crap?
Well thanks @kristiannn I downloaded and reinstalled everything from the beginning and now I have correct sun flare and the sky is beautiful too.

Does anyone know how to remove the giant yellowish pixel blob that covers your view when supposedly sun is in your view? It's very annoying.

On 11/25/2019 at 4:07 PM, fatal said:

That's you should turn on vsync in Project Paradise launcher, it limits the FPS to 60.

If your monitor is capable of over 60Hz, then in game, under video settings, you also need to set refresh rate accordingly. Vsync in PPL doesn't do it for you.