Latest Update on Game Issues

[baker011]

Hot off the press:


We would like to thank all the players for playing Test Drive Unlimited and reporting issues.

Atari, Eden and Microsoft are working on a Live product update for TDU which will fix various issues found after release. We are also working on increasing the server capacity, which will improve the performance, reduce the Clubs problems and connection issues (“TDU server unavailable”). This will be done no later than the end of the week.

The main issues reported are as follows:

Problem of progression being lost

The problem occurs when you sell a house which contains a car that you’re trying to sell on the E-trade: this creates an issue and the player’s progression is lost.
In order to resolve this, the E-trade system has been temporarily deactivated. You cannot currently trade vehicles with other players, although you can still sell your vehicles via the direct selling option.
The problem is being dealt with as a priority and we will let you know as soon as the E-trade system is operational again.

Issues with CLUBS

During recent peak hours the demand on the servers reached unforeseen levels, resulting in some invitations for clubs being lost and players being unable to resend them.
We are working on increasing the server limit, as well as fixing this issue with an update. The fix will check for lost invites and allow you to re-invite a player if the invitation was permanently lost.

Connections issues (message « TDU servers unavailable »)

Players may have noticed some "TDU server unavailable" messages during peak periods. This is partly due to the number of simultaneous players growing very quickly in a short time.

We are currently tweaking our server to improve the performances, so connection issues will be greatly reduced. The extension of the server’s capacity will also help to solve these issues.

Difficulty to find Friends

This is partly due to the server becoming saturated during peak hours. It will much easier to find your friends when the server capacity is increased.

Currently filters work only on the map - they are not properly implemented while driving. This will be fixed in the forthcoming patch and players will then be able to see only their friends in the game if they wish.

There follows some additional guidelines to make playing with friends easier:

How to play with your friends:

1- The first player goes into a less densely populated area as shown on the map, then zooms in to the island. Other people that want to join him then select him from the map. Players will join a session that’s not full in this area, so the chances are high that this will be the first player’s session.

2- As an alternative, the MS game invite is a very powerful tool, and can be used from a multiplayer lobby as follows:
- create a multiplayer private session
- send an invite to your friends
- race as you want in the created session
- if you get bored of the race you're in, you can change for another one and bring the whole party with you (option available once race is over, before restarting another one)

3- Another way to play with friends is to create a club, meet at the club and start play from there.

Problem in Drive-in


The game freezes when the number of custom challenges in a drive-in is above 256. This is fixed. The maximum number of available custom challenges in a drive-in is now set to 255. This is a server based fix.
The Update will increase this limit so that anyone can post a challenge anytime.

NOTE: The first Update was released on Monday September 11 which deals with a number of issues, but does not include any of the fixes listed above. The first Update fixes a small number of gameplay exploits (loopholes). We’ll keep you posted about the second Update.


We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused. Please continue to send your feedback to Atari and thanks for playing Test Drive Unlimited.


More news on the coming updates will be posted as soon as we have it.

[kevthedude]

So does this mean that the Drive-In is now enabled again or do we have to wait for the update that we have to download?

[Easyvue]

Does this mean loopholes as in the 170 through traffic race?

[utopiate]

Still no luck getting a connection to the TDU servers. This is just past the 5 day mark and I have yet to connect to the TDU servers. And before anything about peak hours is said, I've played weekday/end morning, early/mid afternoon, evening, the middle of the night...not once connecting to the servers. I've got open NAT and I've never had any trouble getting a connection in any other game.

[Perfect Code]

Hmm, ever since this small update was released I keep getting 'Disconnected from Xbox Live'. =/

But, I hope the bigger patch(es) come out very soon.

[Firecatman]

ya, same

[mopar4life]

When will the Online Car buy and sell be back up.

[Casey388]

I was wondering the same thing.

[Roninjinn]

No word on the B/S/T feature at ALL?

[josuedc2]

same thing.But u know what,like 2 days of the realese,i got a used viper & now is not working. : (

[lameco]

I haven't tried it in a day or two. Is the Photo Upload feature working. I am not sure what it is suppose to do but before it was claiming Xbox Live server unavailable. I would like to know if this feature would let me upload a screen shot so I can grab it off the web, do some PhotoImpact 11 magic to it and have some nice custom TDU Wallpaper on my PC. Does anyone know when or how this feature will be ready? :cry:

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[Tru_Warrior]

you all need to fix the screen size issue.

[b4u2]

after playing for about five minutes it freezes my machine up im going to erase it of my hard drive then reload it and start from scratch the problem i think is the save files gets corrupted after shutting down after a freeze up

[Tru_Warrior]

I really think this game was rushed

[2JZFAN]

Problem of progression being lost

The problem occurs when you sell a house which contains a car that you’re trying to sell on the E-trade: this creates an issue and the player’s progression is lost.
In order to resolve this, the E-trade system has been temporarily deactivated. You cannot currently trade vehicles with other players, although you can still sell your vehicles via the direct selling option.
The problem is being dealt with as a priority and we will let you know as soon as the E-trade system is operational again.


This is not the only way you can lose your saved game. Players have been losing ALL their progress to corrupt saves. Visit the thread in my signature for more details on my situation as well as links to others like me. Atari/Eden have yet to officially respond to ANY of the posts on these official Atari US forums. While we patiently wait for themto respond keep in mind this could happen to you at anytime.

[Nova5]

Does this mean loopholes as in the 170 through traffic race?


That is not a loophole, any Race can be run again. Missions are one shot deals. the Taxi missions (Model, Hitchhiker, Package Delivery), the Car Delivery missions cannot.

170 through traffic is a race.

[sjswing]

Hmm, ever since this small update was released I keep getting 'Disconnected from Xbox Live'. =/

But, I hope the bigger patch(es) come out very soon.
I know what you mean. I have owned the game for 3 days now and keep trying to stay online to complete a race or even find my friends. I might be able to stay online for 10 mins. max and I keep disconnecting from xbox. I like the game, but if the next patch does not fix it, you can best believe I will be taking mine back to get another game.

[Goldengoose7]

The lack of participation by the developers on this so called "OFFICIAL" web site for TDU problem reports has been nothing short of disappointing.

I don't understand why companies bother with providing forums like this, when they ignore the majority of questions and never keep the owners of their game updated as to what is being done to address the many issues we have all been reporting for weeks now.

Personally, I have all but written off this site as anything worth my time.

The fact that I lost all of my progress once already, and Atari seems to content with keeping all of us in the dark about the patch tends to keep me away from TDU and more interested in my other games and those about to be released.

Kind of sad. They could have handled all of this so much better than they have so far.

[Vasilia]

The devs do read the forum. They can't read every thread. Writing code is tricky. You've got to be able to fix something without breaking something else. They need to extensively alpha test each change in real time with the alpha testers who play each version of an update before we get to download it. I know. I used to be an alpha tester, although not for this game. BTW, alpha testers most likely have an entirely different board that we can't see. They're supposed to play the game both online and alpha versions and report every bug they find on those boards.

[CyberPunk187]

They don't need to read every thread to know what is wrong. I don't care what they are doing, I just want to know when the final version of TDU is going to be complete. They seem to be avoiding any questions or complaints about the true issues of the game.

They should not have to test anything after the game has gone gold. They probably saved a ton of money by forcing us to test it.

[Goldengoose7]

If this game goes un-patched much longer, their won't be a community left to care.

People are bailing on TDU left and right over the save file corruption bug.

All the other issues with this game pale in significance when compared to that.

In my opinion, now that the save file bug has proven to be more serious than a few isolated incidents of lost progress, you would have to be a complete fool to continue to play TDU in its current buggy state. I guess if you don't mind losing weeks worth of progress, and would enjoy replaying all of those missions and races, earning enough money to rebuy all those cars and houses again, then by all means have at it. Just brace yourself for the day when you get the infamous error message when you try to reload you game after a freeze. It will happen to you eventually.

Speaking as someone who lost their save file at nearly 50% completion, I can tell you that getting punched in the stomach has a similar effect on your emotional state. ;)

[josuedc2]

im playing IMPORT TUNER CHALLENGE until they fix the problem.

[Rooot]

on 9/11 you wrote: "This will be done no later than the end of the week."
how long is "your" week in earthweeks? 52?

[Kainz Uk]

Does anything even work on this game anymore?

Last night (a weekend) I saw just one friend online in the game. My mates nearby all have the same experience, they hardly see anyone on the roads anymore.

Trade is useless.

Clubs for the most point are buggy. In my first savegame which got corrupted I was in a club. Then I had to restart the game from scratch and lo and behold, I had to re-apply to my club. Yet the leader can't see any applications from me. Great.

People are glitching left, right and centre.

Is it possible for a legit gamer to do a diner challenge? Or do I have to learn how to exploit?

Makes me sad to see one of my biggest games of the year, doing so badly because of its many faults. I've already lost three friends in this game because their saves got corrupted. Mine was lost too but I restarted, however the fun from the game has gone now because I fear it'll happen again should my 360 lockup like theirs did.

[2JZFAN]

I've been out of the loop for a while now after my save corruption. I was one of the first to make waves but I also provided Atari/Eden something towards a solution. Long story short Atari/Eden were not able to fix my corrupt save but it did help them identify and supposedly patch one of the save corruption issues. I've been waiting on this next patch before I even think of playing the game again.. It may allow my save to work again, or so I may be told. I will say that I'm sad to what the community here has become, it seems many of the veterans have moved on.

[mopar4life]

I havent left, yet.

[hucurreyrry@gma]

Im waiting for an update to play again...dont have much time to anyway...but if GoW gets a decent review, and the update isnt out by then, I'll probably never touch the game again. Unless there's some irresistible free dlc. I'll keep it in case my buddy gets it.

[Kainz Uk]

I can't be bothered anymore. Stopped playing a while ago. Total waste of £40 if you ask me. Online game, yeah right.

[hurricane9que]

...fixing the issues for the missing challenges, transports, hitchhikers, and models. I'm trying to complete them all and I have but it seems that about 1/2 are missing -- meaning I would complete them if I can find them. Where are they? Are these updates from the TDU server?

Also, where is the monthly car pack for October? November? I don't see teh Ruf RGT in the European Manufacturers or the Convertible C6..in fact I don't see any of the outlined car packs. Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Hurricane9QUE

"Where there is no wind, row" - Chinese Proverb

[shaken_bacon]

...fixing the issues for the missing challenges, transports, hitchhikers, and models. I'm trying to complete them all and I have but it seems that about 1/2 are missing -- meaning I would complete them if I can find them. Where are they? Are these updates from the TDU server?

Also, where is the monthly car pack for October? November? I don't see teh Ruf RGT in the European Manufacturers or the Convertible C6..in fact I don't see any of the outlined car packs. Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Hurricane9QUE

"Where there is no wind, row" - Chinese Proverb

Learn to read before posting as I said in the other thread... Your answers are all over this forum stop posting and start searching...

BTW the missions work fine its just your a little slow and don't even realize you havn't found them on the map yet.

[MaN227]

blah blah blah

[moparornocar72]

and how about fixing "DOWNLOADABLE CONTENt NO LONGER AVIALIBLE, DO YOU WANT TO RETURN TO MARKET PLACE?" problem, i cant even play the game unless i completely restart. This problem has happend to many people and there is still no patch for it!

[moparornocar72]

wtf still cnat play tdu downlaodable content no longer availible!bahh kill self soon

[psmurf16]

how do i get my progress back i was like 65% done i put the game in and now corrupt file!

[Forenobject]

how do i get my progress back i was like 65% done i put the game in and now corrupt file!

If you shut off your Xbox 360 wile saveing / or used a memory card to
back up your game nothing can help you, I got 2 corrupted game saves
in a week and i just started over and finished the game again. And had no problem sense.

[Warpedcow]

If you shut off your Xbox 360 wile saveing / or used a memory card to
back up your game nothing can help you,

If you copy your saves to a memory card, you haven't corrupted anything, just remove the memory card before you load the game and you should be fine. I've done this many times.

[JuiceFox]

Lol
the pontiac dealer ship is selling two of the same cars lol

[psmurf16]

drine in no worky which means no ace 4 me!

[kid8893]

After a update to TDU no matter what drive in I go to it shows no challenges. What the heck is going on? Is there a fix for this ?
Does anyone know anything ?
Before anyone asks it is not my network I see tons of people online with me and all my other games work fine.
***I checked the UK site they have about 15 people reporting the same issue drive-ins not working. Can we please get some kind of update on when or how this can be fixed....

[HemicudanTDUnow]

Umm for some reasons I am not getting any cloths coupons even though I am doijn what it tells me to to get them. A little help plz!!!


PM me with anwsers or here....or both!! lol

[HemicudanTDUnow]

wtf still cnat play tdu downlaodable content no longer availible!bahh kill self soon

Did it say it finished downloading the content or not? If not you need to redownload. Or your xbox is being crap. Also you NEED TO HAVE A HARD DRIVE for DLC (Downloadable content) to work.

Hope that helps.:D

[juggzuk]

hello small humans
has anyone else noticed that when doing a speed challenge that the bar on the right denoting the top speed to be reached is about 10-20 miles per hour slower than the cars speedo?

[ShazBo]

and how about fixing "DOWNLOADABLE CONTENt NO LONGER AVIALIBLE, DO YOU WANT TO RETURN TO MARKET PLACE?" problem, i cant even play the game unless i completely restart. This problem has happend to many people and there is still no patch for it!

I just got a new 360 back from Microsoft and I went to play TDU and it is giving me the same problem. Everything was fine before, what happened to this game. I deleted all my downloaded content(for some reason all the packs were on my hard drive even though I only bought one) and it is still giving me this problem. Has anyone been able to fix this?

[UP0N0NE]

All I have to say is... I'm on my fifth tdu Disk! But thank God for warrants at EBgames or elses... The fact that I love the game so much.. I just don't care, I go get another disk and keep playin. What does piss me off is the ZX12 ninja I see in the manual, but not in the game!?!? When?
All I ride is the bikes.. I just went over 15000khm on my MV Agusta! "No sh8t"
I'am the wheelie king! :D Now I need a new bike.. I want to put ALL the cars to shame! hehe. So when do I get my ZX12?!?!