Demo. Hold Up. Wait A Minute.

[BAk99]

First things first, this states early game demo.

If your having issues launching from menu, make sure you have all exceptions on your windows security & have the exe set to administrator access under compatbility. If the game is stuck on 'loading saved game' go to Documents/My Games/ Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, delete the folder and try again. Also make sure you have made a nacon account and connect your profile services for easier straight access.

This is clearly not the product that is being beta'd or issued to influence/promoters of the game. You want a better taste of what TDU SC has to offer, go on youtube.

You know what, I'm not mad the demo. It showcases a lot of the TDU style features we are looking for. Yes, it doesn't matter if you set the demo to lowest or highest graphical settings. You still get around a 2 fps drop margin. Yes as it's an 'early' game demo probably in alpha stage from a year or so back & has zero optimisation. KT have kept as much of TDU's roots as possible & it's most definitely not an out dated format.

The map access is TDU, the car quality is TDU, the avatar models are exactly TDU, FRIM is there, the hotel is accessible, garages are accessible, road mapping is pretty well made, GPS tracking, races, the very formal 'welcome to Solar Crown' cut scenes are included, the modern touch of car enthusiasm is there & lastly the overall presentation i.e. Hud & menu's are incredibly more advanced than most driving games.

The overall value of this franchise is dumped on before making it onto the start line. There is going to be online teething problems & there will be patch development. I remember Forza Horizon 4 & 5 having the worse connectivity issues even at launch if not 1 month down the line.

Give this title some slack and allow the process. This isn't trying to be something like Ubisoft stating AAAA gaming, or EA's loot box cash grabs. If you don't love the franchise, then let those who are pretty passionate and patient to grow with this long awaited title. It's your choice to pre-order it but I can guarantee you've pre-ordered worse.

TDU isn't for your everyday gamer but I can sure as hell say it will have something for every car, open world or racing enthusiast wanting to socialise on one of the greatest formats that made the likes of Forza Horizon & The Crew possible.

[Occasional Gamer]

Are you serious? Which game developer is releasing a demo in the preorder stage that makes people want to not buy their game and run away? It's 2024, over 10 years after TDU and yet this looks and feels like a game from the TDU2 area... but without the soul TDU2 had. That's missing from it. Yes, I see some of the TDU features, but I don't see the heart and sould and neither the roots. I'm not an every day gamer and I still to this day play TDU1 and 2, but this I don't want to play again.

If this is the best they can show the public after all these years of development 3 month before release, then I rather keep my money and buy the next Forza Horizon.

As for connectivity issues... this is a MMO!!!! It can't have connectivity issues, it's not Forza 4 or 5 that can be played solo all the way through. To release a MMO in this state shows that the developer isn't capable of creating a MMO. We all knew that and hoped it would be like TDU2... a singleplayer game with extensive multiplayer capacity, But this is a MMO and the whole MMO part is one big joke. And that's sad, very sad, because what I've played so far doesn't need to be online always. Bad choice and it ruined the whole game.

[Blue Raven]

in order for me to be disappointed i would have to at least play the game. But they couldn't even give us a demo that works. 3 days and i haven't been able to get past the login screen. Honestly I'm not sure why i keep trying. This demo really screams absolute lack of care

[ofnir123]

I'll give it a go, as I said in my own thread I'm still optimistic about it, but I can't turn a blind eye to everything just because I loved the other TDU games.

Contrary to a lot of people I can deal with performance issues, as these can be fixed with patches. And even if I have to lock it at 30FPS, if it's stable I'll deal with it.

But if the full game ships and I have to try joinng a race for an hour before it stops giving me errors, no amount of great content is gonna make me stick with it. ESPECIALLY if it's just a one-off lucky start and I have to do the same thing for the next race.

Which is a shame because this is one of the few arcadey racing games that I actually enjoy driving in. On controller it just feels right, not too dumbed down but not too technical.

Still, I WANT this to be good. We've been overdue for a social racing experience, and TDU's unique enough to fill that void. And the city layout is AMAZING.

[bvnton]

Originally posted by Blue Raven:

in order for me to be disappointed i would have to at least play the game. But they couldn't even give us a demo that works. 3 days and i haven't been able to get past the login screen. Honestly I'm not sure why i keep trying. This demo really screams absolute lack of care

Та же история, 3 дня пытаюсь, не знаю зачем, думаю вот, удалить или ещё ждать?!) Только, чего ждать... зачем просто было выкатывать демку, если она не работает..

[suicidal.banana]

Originally posted by bvnton:

Та же история, 3 дня пытаюсь, не знаю зачем, думаю вот, удалить или ещё ждать?!) Только, чего ждать... зачем просто было выкатывать демку, если она не работает..

Sorry to be talking about politics here but Russia is openly hating on France & France is openly hating them back & the developers of this game are from France.

So at least for now (when they clearly only have servers in France for the time being) you can stop trying... if they didn't block Russian players on principle then its extremely likely that Russia blocked France as a whole.

Even if you're technically in another country and only speaking Russian you still suffer from this, mostly because the bald dude has a certain level of control over neighboring countries like yours ☹️

[bq]

A game should NEVER need ADMIN level privileges to be able to run.

This guy eats slop and likes it, jeez...