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Test Drive	1987
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Test Drive 4	1997
Test Drive 5	1998
Test Drive 6	1999
Test Drive Le Mans	2000
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Has problems playing music on Windows Vista and above. See "Music is not present".

General information

Official game site from Internet Archive

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\PlayerData\^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\PlayerData\^{[Note 2]}

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched. Menu is always rendered at 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Enable by default
60 FPS
120+ FPS		High (+300) fps makes the game move at an unplayable speed and boggles the camera
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

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

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

Audio

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effect, music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish				Available only in local retail release.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Music is not present

In order for the game to play music, the Windows Media Source Filter must be re-installed on newer versions of Windows

Completely restores and fixes issues with the playback of music

Install the Windows Media Source Filter & DivX codec^[3]

Download the Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.7
Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
Copy drmclien.dll into the game's installation folder.
Right-click the ApplyPatch.bat and run it as administrator.
Download the DivX 3.11 audio codec
Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
Right-click the DivX_Register.exe and run it as Administrator.
Launch the game

Notes

If the text in the console window is red, then you need to run the ApplyPatch.bat as Administrator

Your antivirus might stop the file from executing, you may have to click "More info" and then "Run anyway"

Alternative install of the Windows Media Source Filter & DivX codec^[4]

Download the Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.7
Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
Copy drmclien.dll into the game's installation folder.
Make a new directory in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ called Windows-Media-Source-Filter
Copy drmclien.dll, strmdll.dll and dxmasf.dll from the .zip file to the Windows-Media-Source-Filter folder
Run DSFMgr.exe as administrator and register the dxmasf.dll in the Windows-Media-Source-Filter folder.
Download the DivX 3.11 audio codec
Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
Run DivX_Register.exe as Administrator.
Launch the game

Notes

This modification does not affect Windows Media Player file playback adversely

Low frame-rate and graphical glitches

DirectDraw emulation is broken in Windows 8/10.

Stablizes gameplay along with fixing graphical glitches.

Use a DirectDraw wrapper^[5]
Download the DirectDrawCompat wrapper. Extract the contents from the `.zip` file into the game's installation folder. Launch the game.

Use a DirectX wrapper^{[citation needed]}
Install dgVoodoo 2

Game runs too fast

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

Set monitor on 60hz.^{[citation needed]}

The game crashes without a message (eXtra Klasyka's release)

Replace the executables with modified ones.^[6]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7	Requires Windows Media Player 6.4 media features and codecs.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video, Windows Media Source Filter	Bink Video v0.9d

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 7 compatible

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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

↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
↑ https://mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/monopoly-tycoon-directsound-music-fix.html
↑ https://mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/monopoly-tycoon-directsound-music-fix.html
↑ https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat
↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2023-01-17

[3] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]

[gamedir-4] 2.0 ^2.1 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).

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[5] ttps://mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/monopoly-tycoon-directsound-music-fix.html

[6] ttps://mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/monopoly-tycoon-directsound-music-fix.html

[7] ttps://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat

[8] Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2023-01-17

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[Note 2]

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@@ Line 82: / Line 82: @@
 |antialiasing               = false
 |antialiasing notes         =
-|upscaling                  = unknown
+|upscaling                  = false
 |upscaling tech             =
 |upscaling notes            =
@@ Line 91: / Line 91: @@
 |120 fps                    = false
 |120 fps notes              = High (+300) fps makes the game move at an unplayable speed and boggles the camera
-|hdr                        = unknown
+|hdr                        = false
 |hdr notes                  =
 |color blind                = unknown

Developers

	Pitbull Syndicate
Publishers
	Accolade
North America	Infogrames
Europe	Cryo Interactive
Release dates
Windows	November 17, 1999
Taxonomy
Genres	Racing
Series	Test Drive