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Today i tested for you a racing game, a great racing game, with wonderful landscapes and awesome cars. Ladies and gentlemen, Test Drive Unlimited!

A very hard choice!

That’s true. This time the choice is very hard! Wanna know why? Please continue reading.

Test Drive Unlimited on GameTree Linux:

The game is not supported so i’m not gonna consider that.

Test Drive Unlimited on Crossover XI (11.0.0 version):

Alright, the game installs fine, and with a couple of tweaks it runs great (apart from a little water textures issue)! You need a noDVD crack (see below for more infos), you need to set «Windows Vista» as OS into wine configuration to make mouse work, and you have to do a little trick to set your joypad. So:

— Needs a noDVD crack (this one http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?c=725495341&d=2007&f=vty-tdu!rar)
— Set «Windows Vista» into Wine Configuration to make mouse work.
— If you want to play with a joypad, you can’t bind the keys running the original executable. You have to click on «run command. «, set «/pathtoinstalldirectory/TestDriveUnlimited.exe 2>&1 | grep joydev_enum_device» as executable, click on «Debug Options», then «Create log file» and put the line «+dinput» into «Other:». Then run. Now you can bind your joypad buttons. You have to do it the first time only, then it’s no more necessary.
— Water textures displays over the other textures (a minor issue, anyway).

Test Drive Unlimited on PlayOnLinux 4.0.15 (1.4-rc4 wine version):

The game installs fine and runs great with the same tweaks as Crossover XI. The only difference is how you set the joypad. So:

— Needs a noDVD crack (this one http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?c=725495341&d=2007&f=vty-tdu!rar)
— Set «Windows Vista» into Wine Configuration to make mouse work.
— If you want to play with a joypad, you can’t bind the keys running the original executable. You have to go click on your Test Drive Unlimited shortcut, then «Configure», then go into «miscellaneous» tab and «Open a shell». Now navigate into TDU’s directory and run «WINEDEBUG=+dinput wine TestDriveUnlimited.exe 2>&1 | grep joydev_enum_device». Now you can bind your joypad buttons. You have to do it the first time only, then it’s no more necessary.
— Water textures displays over the other textures (a minor issue, anyway).

First of all, my hardware:

agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
cpu_ghz: 0.80
distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
kernel: 3.0.0-17-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 3960
soundcard: HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf4000 irq 16
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.24
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 1024
videocard_type: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.4

Test Drive Unlimited had some performance issues with older wine versions (1.1.xx specifically), but Wine and Crossover teams have done a great job, so now it is possible to play the game with good performances! Let’s see.

As you can see, i tested the game in 2 different ways: enabling HDR/disabling AA and enabling AA/disabling HDR. It is just a choice (i prefer using HDR which provides awesome natural light effects). Analyzing these tests i found out that Crossover works better than Wine, providing about a 20-30% more FPS. Anyway, the game is fully playable and enjoyable, and the average FPS guarantee a smooth gameplay.

Conclusion: use Crossover XI.

This process takes about 8 minutes.
The site at the beginning is «www.gamecopyworld.com».
At the end of the installation:

— Download a noDVD crack (this one http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?c=725495341&d=2007&f=vty-tdu!rar)
— Set «Windows Vista» into Wine Configuration.
— If you use a joypad, use the method explained above to set the keys.

P.S. I’m sorry but i couldn’t take a fullscreen gameplay (i don’t know why my screencasting applications crashed everytime i started the game on fullscreen mode), but i tell you: the game WORKS on fullscreen!!

That’s all. Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!

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I was hoping to get Test Drive Unlimited 2 to run on my Linux machine using Wine or Steam Proton, and although I have been able to bypass the annoying UpLauncher, the game briefly loads before crashing on the start up copyright screen. I’m currently running Linux Mint 18.3.

Would anyone have any suggestions about what might be going wrong, and how to fix it?

I have tried running the game with Proton GE 6.4 [github.com] However, I was unable to get past the loading screen. I updated the game with v0.3.4 build 16.7 [drive.google.com] which is an unofficial patch to get past the launcher verification. But I can’t get past the black loading screen with the rotating circle in the bottom right corner. I use Manjaro KDE.

I believe this bug is to do with the saving system for the game. Since Linux doesn’t have the same installation structure as Windows (C:\Users\ \Documents\), the game can’t create a save file. Therefore the game resolves to an infinite loading screen. Or it could be due to servers being offline.

Extra info:
Test Drive Unlimited 2 was removed from Steam on April 18th, 2018 (possibly due to expired licenses) so we have no ProtonDB support either.

However, there is the new Test Drive Drive Unlimited World [turboduck.net] which is an early multiplayer fan mod in the works.

The developers confirmed they are trying to make it work for Linux but are having difficulties. They confirmed it is coming soon so this may be a breakthrough for Test Drive Unlimited 2.
You can check that thread here.

Hopefully this answered anyone’s questions about the current state of this classic game.

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In my case this worked to play the game including my savegame profiles, though i was unable to connect TDU 1 project paradise online server (this may be just problem with my login ID or such).

I backed-up/coppied the «C:/Program Files(x86)/Atari/Test Drive Unlimited» folder and «C:/Users/me/My Documents/Test Drive Unlimited/» folders (that i had installed on Windows) to my external HDD and then used them on Linux.

1. downloaded Linux .iso image of the MX Linux from https://mxlinux.org/download-links

2. Downloaded Rufus application https://rufus.ie and launched it while i added at least 4GB USB stick/flash disk to my port. In Rufus i selected «Partition scheme» as MBR (as i have old BIOS in computer), other things i left default ticking option to format USB drive (erase all data on it) — make sure you working with correct drive, not to format wrong one. And i proceed and Rufus created Live Linux bootable flash disk.
(If you have no experience with installing operating systems (or dual boot HDD), you should backup your important data on system HDD (if there is system. If it is not, it is ok) and or disconnect non system HDDs to prevent accidentally erasing something.)

3. reboot and hit F12 and or F10 key to show boot source right after PC start. If you can not select your Linux USB as a boot source and or Windows is booting, restart againa nd hit «Del» key or other key to enter BIOS. There you may try disabling so called Secure boot and set booting order the way USB is above HDD, you may need to set it on two places.

4. Once you get to boot from Linux USB created by Rufus, you will see menu to boot into MX Linux. Once done, you can click icon to proceed with installation. If have questions, use your phone or other device to find answers on Google or such. Installation is finished and you should have dual boot system (if you had Windows or other OS installed before Linux installation). Boot into Linux.

5. In Linux, enter application called Terminal/Terminal emulator. There execute Linux commands (line after line) to install Wine (software that will help run some Windows apps including Test Drive Unlimited):

It added: «deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ DISTRO main» into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

(!! DISTRO being either wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster or sid . ; i used stretch, because that was what i seen when i did command «sudo apt-get update»)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install —install-recommends winehq-staging

(above mentioned Wine installation steps are taken from https://wiki.winehq.org/Download)

Another useful or necessary packages for gaming on Linux, execute command:

sudo apt-get install winehq-staging, winetricks playonlinux libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc:i386;winetricks directx9

(«winetricks directx9» is command to install directX which is required by games)

6. insert TDU1 game DVD or an .iso image of the installation DVD try to launch the setup.exe. In my case setup was launched, but ended with error:

So i tried to use the .iso image file i created using some software out of my original DVD. I mounted the .iso image using Linux GUI software called Furius ISO mount tool.
It mounted the iso and i ran setup.exe from within the directory that was mounted. Setup finished
As i already ejected original DVD, i found that TDU1 do not want to launch using the shortcut that was created in my Linux menu of installed programs. But it is launching when i run Autorun.exe from the instalaltion disc/mounted iso image directory. Also it worked to launch the game when i inserted original DVD.
So the game launched without problem and i was able to play. (i seen some bug that was showing a river across the road when i was driving over it: — it is known bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28196 that should have been fixed in Wine 4.8).
It also happened that game locked my linux workspace somehow so i have to restart computer.

7. if game is working, you can proceed to copy your TDU1 savegame data (on Window usually located in C:/Users/username/My Documents/Test Drive Unlimited/) to be in your Linux documents path, example in my case path is like this: /home/mylinuxusername/Documents/Test Drive Unlimited/savegame/mytduusername/ (you can backup, rename original savegame folder just in case)

8. To install project paradise launcher, download it from the website (https://forum.turboduck.net/threads/test-drive-unlimited-project-paradise-v0-03a-public-beta-available.29561/ ; http://y0b.net/tdu_client.zip). Extract archive «tdu_client.zip» contents, read extracted «ReadMe.txt» file which instructs to copy extracted file «d3d9.dll» to TDU directory, in my case /home/MYUSERNAME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Atari/Test Drive Unlimited/
(Note that installation of the 1.66A & Car megapack patches caused game to stop launching, so i do not recommend installing it — i had to revert it by replacing . wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Atari/Test Drive Unlimited/TestDriveUnlimited.exe file by one i backed up on my Windows PC.)

I double click extracted «TDU — Project Paradise Launcher.exe» and browse to the above mentioned path to select TestDriveUnlimited.exe and click «Start».
After several seconds, game was launched, but it shows bad game window proportions. So i quit (erasing key and enter key) and start launcher again selecting «Windowed» mode in the launcher. It worked. But connecting to online server fails for me when using GameSpy and my login credentials: Failed to connect to the TEST DRIVE Server. Please check your network status and try again.
Login credentials use valid old ones, follow ReadMe.txt of the project paradise archive.
If you fail to login, you may try to just enter your username (the one that match folder name in . Documents/Test Drive Unlimited/savegame/) and tick the GameSpy tickbox. No e-mail, password.

Game may not start for various reasons. Best is to copy and google the errors. Maybe one can get error «002c:err:d3d:wined3d_resource_allocate_sysmem Failed to allocate system memory.» But i do not know the cause.

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