Razzman

Try as I might I can't get my custom radio stations to work. I've followed the instructions in the manual and several tutorials online and even Youtube vidoes but when I load the game and cycle through the stations all I get are the 4 defaults. The location of the folder is: Libraries/Documents/Test Drive Unlimited/Savegame/Razzman/Radio I've got 4 stations just titled Station1 through Station4 each with between 20 and 25 tracks. I used shortcuts to the original files to save space which the manual says is OK. I even tried deleting my other profile in case that had anything to do with it so there was only 1 main profile. Anybody got any clue what the problem is? I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit if that makes any difference. Edit: Never mind I figured it out. For some reason it doesnt seem to want to accept the shortcuts. I tried just copying the original mp3's into the folder and it works fine.

Thanks Mellors, thats good to hear. Wasnt able to play online on my old pc as it lagged too much so I wanna make sure I get as smooth frame rate as possible for going online this time. With that in mind can I also remove particle.bnk? I think I'm right in saying its only use is for tyre smoke from wheelspin.

A couple more questions along the same lines. I came across a post on another forum that suggested some changes which could be made to the FX.ini file such as to the grass and foliage and even had a link to a modified FX.ini and Weather.ini. If I change any of this or replace the files with the modified ones will it affect online play? Also in the details folder what does RoadPatch.bnk do? If I remove the Birds.bnk and Papers.bnk do I still need to keep RoadPatch.bnk and will removing it affect online play? Just want to make the game run as smooth as possible but still be able to take it online without creating problems for other players when I do. All your help is greatly appreciated guys.

Thanks guys thats great news. Queen thats pretty much what I thought. Just out of interest if you remove the traffic and play online with a group of others who've all done the same (however unlikely that might be) does this remove the invisible traffic problem?

I recently got a new computer which actually plays this game at a decent level. To make the game run smoother on my old machine I removed the traffic from the game. I know that this causes massive problems if you want to play online so I wont be doing it this time as I quite fancy taking it online. However I would quite like to remove all the floating paper and particles in the euro/bnk/details folder as its incredibly irritating. Can I do this and still play online without any problems?

Thanks man. The 5670 looks great but not sure I can stretch that far money-wise. Cant find it for much less than £100. Mostly play racing sims on the pc (Race 07, GT Legends, Nascar 2003 etc.) as well as stuff like Broken Sword, GTA (3, VC & SA) and older stuff like that so not sure its worth me spending that much. TDU is the only game I have for my PC which struggled with my old set-up of the GeForce 6200 256mb and 2gb ddr. I dont plan on buying many games which are much more demanding as I do most of my gaming on my PS3 or my flatmates 360. Mainly just want a card which will let me play TDU at a decent level so I can enjoy it properly without all the jerkiness it had with the 6200. Do you think the 5450 I mentioned could manage it ok? Thanks for all the advice guys it's very much appreciated.

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. I ducked in to my local independent computer shop today and the guy there reccomended me one of these: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/graphic-cards/asus-eah5450-di-1gd3-lp/details/ I've looked around and the reviews seem really good. Its around about what I was planning to spend too and as I said I'm not going to be playing anything that will push it too hard. Does this look alright to any of you?

Ok I'll look at that. I know absolutely nothing about GPU's so any help is much appreciated. Came across this whilst searhing ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NVIDIA-GEFORCE-8400GS-1GB-PCI-EXPRESS-GRAPHICS-CARD-/260407723972?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item3ca18287c4 Is it any good or would I be wasting my time and money on it?

Ok thanks man I'll try it and see what happens. Is there any card in particular you would reccomend? Something that could capably run TDU and other similar games (GTR Evolution etc.) maybe even some slightly newer stuff like NFS: Shift? I'm on an pretty tight budget and will probably end up looking to ebay for it so the cheaper the better, anything around or under the £50 mark is ideal but might be able to stretch a bit further.

Gonna get TDU2 for my ps3 so got no worries there, just wanting to know what standard the original will likely run at on that set-up. Will it be playable to any decent standard or will I have invest in a new graphics card? It doesnt need to be running at the highest settings I just want it to run at a reasonable frame rate so it looks smooth and doesnt skip and jerk all the time.

Just had to buy a new pc as the old one died on me. Had a few problems playing tdu to any great standard on the old machine as the graphics card I had struggled. The old specs were 3ghz pentium 4, 2gb ddr ram, and a GeForce 6200 256mb gpu, running on xp sp3. It ran on this (just) but was often slow and skippy going through built up areas or of there was lots of traffic which left it largely unplayable. The new machine has an intel core i3 540 processor, 3gb ddr3 ram and an onboard intel GMA HD gpu which i think said it was 256mb running on windows 7. It should run quite a bit better on this should it not? I dont want to install tdu only to find its not any better than before so though I would ask here.

Cheers guys Loads of help there thanks a lot. Wish I did have PCI-E but the only way to do that is get a new motherboard, processor and memory which seems to me like a lot of time and money to play a game that cost me a tenner. Although I suppose I will need to eventually for other games (GTA4 when it comes out). Managed to get it running not too badly at the moment offline on 1024x768 with medium detail and no AA by downloading new drivers for my 6200. I'll take a look at some of these cards you've all suggested and maybe price up a motherboard et al as well. Thanks again.

I just bought this game and it looks like I'm gonna have to upgrade my graphics card to play it. I'm currently running a Geforce 6200 256mb which doesnt want to run it too well. Unfortunately I have an older machine and don't want to upgrade motherboards etc so I need an AGP card. I've got a P4 running 3Ghz and 1gb of RAM so theres no problems there. I've been offered a ATI Radeon 9800XT 256mb for £40 would that be a good card for running TDU or should I spend a little extra and get an ATI Radeon X1650PRO 512MB? These are about the only 2 cards I can afford right now. Which should I go for in everyones opinion as I know very little about this subject. Any help is much appreciated.

I tried doing this but it won't let me save the change to FX.ini after i've made them says something about make sure the file path is correct but it is. any suggestions?