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Test Drive 6

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Test Drive 6
Test Drive 6 cover
Developers
Pitbull Syndicate
Publishers
Accolade
North America Infogrames
Europe Cryo Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 17, 1999
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Series Test Drive
Test Drive 6 guide on StrategyWiki
Test Drive 6 on MobyGames
Test Drive 6 on Wikipedia
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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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

In-game general settings.
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]
<path-to-game>\Replay.*[Note 2]

Video

In-game video settings.
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
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings.
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]
  1. Download the Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.7
  2. Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
  3. Copy drmclien.dll into the game's installation folder.
  4. Right-click the ApplyPatch.bat and run it as administrator.
  5. Download the DivX 3.11 audio codec
  6. Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
  7. Right-click the DivX_Register.exe and run it as Administrator.
  8. 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]
  1. Download the Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.7
  2. Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
  3. Copy drmclien.dll into the game's installation folder.
  4. Make a new directory in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ called Windows-Media-Source-Filter
  5. Copy drmclien.dll, strmdll.dll and dxmasf.dll from the .zip file to the Windows-Media-Source-Filter folder
  6. Run DSFMgr.exe as administrator and register the dxmasf.dll in the Windows-Media-Source-Filter folder.
  7. Download the DivX 3.11 audio codec
  8. Extract the contents from the .zip file into a folder.
  9. Run DivX_Register.exe as Administrator.
  10. 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]
  1. Download the DirectDrawCompat wrapper.
  2. Extract the contents from the .zip file into the game's installation folder.
  3. Launch the game.
Use a DirectX wrapper[citation needed]

Install dgVoodoo 2

Game runs too fast

Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed]
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
Other 4X CD-ROM


Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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