The game doesn't run on Windows 10

[Жидобандеровец]

It's been about a year since I last started the game. I've changed the hardware in my PC, had to rea-ctivate the game (which I did). Now when I press "Play" the TestDrive2.exe process starts, but the launcher stays on screen and the TDU process sits at about 64M memory used, never showing its screen or progressing any other way.
Solutions?

[JaxMacFL]

Why did you have to re-activate game? Uninstall and reinstall maybe?

[Oddballs]

Runs fine on windows 10 never had a problem with it, Apart from the servers being down all the time but when there up it works without issues.

[Жидобандеровец]

Originally posted by Free Assasin creed BF on uplay:

Runs fine on windows 10 never had a problem with it, Apart from the servers being down all the time but when there up it works without issues.

Well, I didn't imply Windows 10 is the problem, just thought maybe there's some trick to running the game on modern tech. I think it stopped working after I upgraded Sandy Bridge CPU + AMD R9 280X to Ryzen 7 + Nvidia GTX 1080.

Originally posted by JaxMacFL:

Why did you have to re-activate game? Uninstall and reinstall maybe?

Because of the aforementioned hardware upgrade.

[JaxMacFL]

Originally posted by David Starr:

Originally posted by Free Assasin creed BF on uplay:

Runs fine on windows 10 never had a problem with it, Apart from the servers being down all the time but when there up it works without issues.

Well, I didn't imply Windows 10 is the problem, just thought maybe there's some trick to running the game on modern tech. I think it stopped working after I upgraded Sandy Bridge CPU + AMD R9 280X to Ryzen 7 + Nvidia GTX 1080.

Originally posted by JaxMacFL:

Why did you have to re-activate game? Uninstall and reinstall maybe?

Because of the aforementioned hardware upgrade.

Upgraded hardware (video card, ram) and never had to reactivate. Only times was during a reinstall of os. I learned something, ty.

[Жидобандеровец]

Originally posted by JaxMacFL:

Upgraded hardware (video card, ram) and never had to reactivate. Only times was during a reinstall of os. I learned something, ty.

I asumed the upgrade is what caused, but maybe I'm wrong. I didn't reinstall Windows, at least. Maybe changing the mainboard triggers that?
Surprised the Securom server is still working at all.

[wellen1981]

Originally posted by David Starr:

Originally posted by JaxMacFL:

Upgraded hardware (video card, ram) and never had to reactivate. Only times was during a reinstall of os. I learned something, ty.

I asumed the upgrade is what caused, but maybe I'm wrong. I didn't reinstall Windows, at least. Maybe changing the mainboard triggers that?
Surprised the Securom server is still working at all.

Should always do fresh os install if changing mobo cpu etc
Otherwise you get problems like yours and likely this issue will be first of many without clean os install.

[Жидобандеровец]

Originally posted by wellen1981:

Should always do fresh os install if changing mobo cpu etc
Otherwise you get problems like yours and likely this issue will be first of many without clean os install.

No. This is a misconception, and I bet you 10 bucks my problem is unrelated to your suggestion.

[wellen1981]

Originally posted by David Starr:

Originally posted by wellen1981:

Should always do fresh os install if changing mobo cpu etc
Otherwise you get problems like yours and likely this issue will be first of many without clean os install.

No. This is a misconception, and I bet you 10 bucks my problem is unrelated to your suggestion.

If changing actual mobo I wouldnt trust a non-fresh OS, but yeah regarding your issue... many people do struggle getting TDU2 running on windows 10...

I have installed it on fresh win 10 installs 3 times on 3 different systems and got it to work flawlessly with no problems but I did make sure that from the start of installing tdu2 that i kept running steam as admin, kept rebooting after installing tdu2 and after each tdu2 patch ....all this was while running steam as admin everytime i had to fire up steam again... this was done using win 10 pro x64.... often securom drm can be the issue but I cant be sure what your issue is as I was fortunate enough to get tdu2 installed on win 10 without problems. This was on intel cpu and nvidia gpu systems btw.

Hopefully that waffle helps but yeah up to you whether you fresh os install or not.... I am getting too old for troubleshooting after cutting corners so i try to play safe and sure regarding system builds/rebuilds.

Good luck and hopefully others here who have had issues getting tdu2 past problems on win 10 will chime in.