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TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed

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TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed
TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed cover
Developers
Pitbull Syndicate
Publishers
Infogrames
Release dates
Windows December 8, 2002
TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed on Wikipedia
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Key points

Known simply as Test Drive in North America.

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or Rename
  1. Go to the installation folder
  2. Open Movies folder
  3. Delete or Rename: Intro.bik, Publish.bik, Transition.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See 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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
the option is in the rendering tab in the launcher
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Game runs to fast

Widescreen Resolution Permanently

Widescreen Fix with Hex Editing
  1. The game launcher actually just filters out resolutions with unexpected screen ratios, which can be eliminated with a simple hex edit.
  2. Open Test Drive.exe with a hex editor.
  3. On offset 0008F460 column 03 change 7B to EB and save.

Notes

This is permanent fix

Widescreen Resolution Permanently

Permanently Patch
  1. Download Patch from MEGA
  2. Extract PATCH file from archive to installation folder
  3. Finally Launch the Game. Be Enjoy :)

Notes

This is exactly permanent fix

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

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]

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

Use WineD3D for Windows(Obligatory windows10)[citation needed]
  • Download DX8 to DX9 convertor.
  • Copy d3d8.dll and enbconvertor.ini to the installation folder.
  • Enable vsync in the render option in the Launcher.And set monitor on 60hz

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
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) TNT2-class
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6 compatible


References