Difference between revisions of "TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed"

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Test Drive	1987
The Duel: Test Drive II	1989
Test Drive III: The Passion	1990
Test Drive: Off-Road (series)
Test Drive 4	1997
Test Drive 5	1998
Test Drive 6	1999
Test Drive Le Mans	2000
Le Mans 24 Hours	2001
TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed	2002
Test Drive Unlimited (series)
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends	2012

Key points

Known simply as Test Drive in North America.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM DRM

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or Rename
Go to <path-to-game>\Movies Delete or Rename: `Intro.bik`, `Publish.bik`, `Transition.bik`

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameSaves\^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameSaves\*.sav^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen Resolution Fix
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		The option is in the rendering tab in the launcher
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Game runs to fast

Widescreen Resolution Fix

The game launcher actually just filters out resolutions with unexpected screen ratios, which can be eliminated with a simple hex edit

Download Patch and extract to <path-to-game>

Notes

If you want to edit with manually:

Open Test Drive.exe with a hex editor.
On offset 0008F460 change 7B to EB and save.

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Download and Install Cheat Engine
Download the cheat table from PCGW and open.
Start the game and press Alt+Tab ↹ out.
In the window that opens, press Ctrl+P
Select Test Drive.exe and click Open, then click Yes.
Press Alt+Tab ↹ again and Return to the Game.
- Hotkeys:
- For Player 1:
- Option 1 = F2+/F2-/F2~
- Option 2 = F3+/F3-/F3~
- Option 3 = F4+/F4-/F4~
- For Player 2:
- Option 1 = F5+/F5-/F5~
- Option 2 = F6+/F6-/F6~
- Option 3 = F7+/F7-/F7~

Notes

Your change will be void each time you restart the Race or change the camera.

After freezing the field of view, you can switch to ghost mode by pressing the switch camera button!

For more, read the README file in the archive file and follow what is written.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Screen flickering on Intel GPUs or laptops with Nvidia Optimus technology

WineD3D for Windows^{[citation needed]}
Download dx8todx9 Copy d3d8.dll and enbconvertor.ini to <path-to-game>

Missing traffic and other weird behaviour

Change Regional format

Change Regional format in Windows settings to English (United States).

Notes

Might work with other regional formats too.

Game runs to fast

Limit the Framerate to 60FPS^{[citation needed]}
See Frame rate capping.

Use d3d8to9(Obligatory Windows 10)^{[citation needed]}
Download d3d8to9 and extract to <path-to-game> Enable Vsync in the render option in the Launcher,and set monitor on 60hz.

Vsync option not working on Windows 10

Use d3d8to9^{[citation needed]}
Download d3d8to9 and extract to <path-to-game>

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz	Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	TNT2-class 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible	Nvidia GeForce2 ATI Radeon 32-128 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Note 1]

@@ Line 80: / Line 80: @@
 |antialiasing               = false
 |antialiasing notes         =
+|upscaling                  = unknown
+|upscaling tech             =
+|upscaling notes            =
 |vsync                      = true
-|vsync notes                = the option is in the rendering tab in the launcher
+|vsync notes                = The option is in the rendering tab in the launcher
 |60 fps                     = true
 |60 fps notes               =
@@ Line 192: / Line 195: @@
 {{Audio
 |separate volume          = true
-|separate volume notes    = Music and sfx
+|separate volume notes    = Music and SFX
 |surround sound           = unknown
 |surround sound notes     =
@@ Line 202: / Line 205: @@
 |mute on focus lost notes =
 |eax support              =
-|eax support notes        =
+|eax support notes         =
+|royalty free audio        = unknown
+|royalty free audio notes  =
 }}
@@ Line 285: / Line 290: @@
 }}
-{{Fixbox|description=Use d3d8to9(Obligatory windows10)|ref={{cn|date=July 2016}}|fix=
+{{Fixbox|description=Use d3d8to9(Obligatory Windows 10)|ref={{cn|date=July 2016}}|fix=
 * Download [https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases d3d8to9] and extract to {{p|game}}
 * Enable Vsync in the render option in the Launcher,and set monitor on 60hz.
@@ Line 320: / Line 325: @@
 |windows 32-bit exe     = true
 |windows 64-bit exe     = true
+|windows arm app        = unknown
 |windows exe notes      =
 |macos intel 32-bit app =
 |macos intel 64-bit app =
+|macos arm app          = unknown
 |macos app notes        =
 |linux 32-bit executable=
 |linux 64-bit executable=
+|linux arm app          = unknown
 |linux executable notes =
 }}

Developers

	Pitbull Syndicate
Publishers
	Infogrames
Release dates
Windows	December 8, 2002
Taxonomy
Genres	Racing
Series	Test Drive