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Test Drive Le Mans

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Test Drive Le Mans
Test Drive Le Mans cover
Developers
Eutechnyx
Publishers
Infogrames
Release dates
Windows January 15, 2000
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Series Test Drive
Test Drive Le Mans on MobyGames
Test Drive Le Mans on Wikipedia
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

This page is for the 2000 PlayStation port,[1]. For the 2002 game by Melbourne House that was released for the PlayStation 2 and PC, see Le Mans 24 Hours.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default in the gameplay.The menu is uncapped
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Game Capped 30fps.Menu is uncapped
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keys settings are not saved, it is needed to reconfigure them each time the game is started.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller support is disabled by default, remapping the keys to controller buttons is necessary
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller settings are not saved, it is needed to reconfigure them each time the game is started
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
Game music, Sound effects, Menu music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Portuguese
24 Horas de Le Mans.[2]

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
Horizontal split screen.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game crashes in Le Mans 24 Hours and Qualifies modes

Replace lemans.exe
  1. Download FIX from My Abandonware's Test Drive Le Mans page.
  2. Copy and paste it into <path-to-game>\bin\ folder replacing the old executable.

Game crashed in loading screen

Using nGlide[citation needed]
  1. Download newest version of nGlide and install it.
  2. set lemans.exe in Windows98 / ME compatibility mode
  3. Go to the video game options and select the glide renderer

Main Menu Runs Very Fast

Use a DirectX wrapper
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and extract the archive.
  2. Open the MS\x86 folder and copy DDraw.dll file.
  3. Paste the files into the game installation folder <path-to-game> where the game executable is.
  4. Set lemans.exe in Windows98/ME compatibility mode

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Glide
The menu is always rendered in Direcxt 7 no matter how much GLIDE is selected
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible


Notes

  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).

References

  1. Le Mans 24 2000 PC - Eurogamer - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Jornal Record, 18/02/2001 - last accessed on May 2023