Test Drive Unlimited

[wolfsrain]

Outrageous system requirements, poor optimization and loads of bugs. Atari continues the trend set by the last releases from Ubisoft and a few other big companies. Of course guilty of the game problems are: the pirates and the users. The users because they don't upgrade their hardware at every six months and they are reluctant to do the beta test for the big companies.
This game would have been better with a later release, than being released in the poor state that is now. I'm looking in parallel at a very nice release: Jade Empire and i discover that there are very few bugs, a good optimization and not so outrageous system requirements(Geforce6600 or Ati X800 are, by now, the standard).
You can't sell on a market that you disrespect constantly, you can't impose a change by putting high end system requirements.
Compared with NFS Carbon, this game could've been a lot better.Maybe even stole the crown from EA. And it fails miserably, because they tried to respect the deadline imposed by the publisher.
Yeah, I agree another game destroyed by ATARI.

[BugByte]

I dont know what everyone is talking about by the game not working.. the only thing i see wrong with it is that it autoruns when inserted into dvd-rom tray even if you dont want it too. other than that the game runs smooth and great fps, no lag and gfx are set to max. i'm usuing MS Steering wheel and it works great too. the thing i find dumb about the game though would be most of the lame missions, that basicaly repeat them self's with just a slight variation... i found the car delivery missions to be the good ones, as with the parcel delivery.
and why are there no Honda or Acura or even Subaru... these are some of the finnest car companies arround, a hell of allot better than a Ford or Chevy shit!

well anyways just wanted to let yous know i dont have any probs what so ever, and i been playing now for about a week, and i even had the game running for 13hours strait and still ran smooth after 13 hours of continues play.

Atari did a swell job on this release a lot better that the previus TD releases, wich i thought were all lame and crappy, with no real car physics. though this one is a little off as well... it is close and makes for some fun driving.

drifting is only done if you take off the driving aid, and what a joy with all the winding roads..

My PC specs in case anyone wanted to know...


OS: WindowsXP Profesional SP2

MOBO: ASUS P4P800 Deluxe 800Mhz FSB.

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 - 2.8c Ghz, with Hyper Threading.

HS: Zen CPU Radiator, CPU runs 10 degrees cooler.

RAM: CORSAIR TWINX1024-3200LLPT Platinum Series.
2 X 512MB DDR2 400Mhz PC3200 Dual Channel.
Latency: 2-2-2-6 Life time warranty.

AGP: Chipset/Core Speed: ATI RADEON 9800XT/412MHz
Memory/Effective Speed: 256MB DDR/730MHz
BUS: AGP 1X/2X/4X/8X
Ports: VGA Out(15 Pin D-Sub)+TV-Out(S-Video Out)+DVI connector
Support 3D API: DirectX9, OpenGL2.0
Max Resolution@32bit Color: 2048X1536@85Hz

ROM: 1).Plextor PX-716AL "Slot" Load DVD-RW
2).LG GCC-4522BI 16X DVD 52X32X52 CD-RW COMBO

PS: Vigor500 MGE XG 500 Watt with heat sink and external fan with adjustable speed knob. P4 & AMD CERTIFIED.

HDD: 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM Ultra ATA/133.

nothing overclocked!

[BugByte]

OHH yah! the reason i came here was to ask where the NO CD file is? i got the one from the site but it's not a no cd file its a 3.2 gig mini image that still needs to be mounted... i allready created a dvd image, i dont need the mini image to just save 500MB i wanna save 3gig's of HDD space.
a nice little no cd .exe file would be nice.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Read the forum FAQ on how to make mini images use much less hard disk space (and a lot more).