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NecroViolator




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 12:08    Post subject:
Hes right sad to say...
They did the Open Beta just to test their crappy Servers... Sad...
WTF...
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snoop1050
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 15:28    Post subject:
thats all open beta's are ever for, the servers suck ass though the few times i have seen any other chars they look like they have had a 500+ ms ping
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TDU-fan64




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 16:09    Post subject:
when will close the beta i can play in offline mode?i am no subscriber? Confused
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snoop1050
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:10    Post subject:
you get a message saying the license is going to run out in 3 days so i guess everyone has to buy the game then.

i think i will buy this one , its alot of fun if you only play for an hour or so at a time and it is a step in the right direction for pc racing games even if it is only a port.
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getthehellout




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:10    Post subject:
You can play offline

Dont vink Gamespy on and no mail and pass in profile then you can play offline


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KrAzY-KaMeL




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:22    Post subject:
Glottis wrote:
Currently a proud owner of 17" CRT and planning on getting 19 incher. LCDs are pathetic for gaming. With CRT I see games in a real 32 bit colors, they look awesome in every res, it's a real 4:3 format, not some stretched bullshit (yes every LCD monitor is fucking stretched, even WS ones, 1280x1024 is not 4:3 and 1680x1050 is not 16:9). I play games the way they were meant to be played and am not locked to one single resolution choice like some idiot.


What's up with your indirect insults? Your either too cheap to afford a LCD or you have no idea what your talking about. LCD technology has advanced a long way from when you saw that gateway monitor in a PC shop 4 years ago. Yes, they do not match a CRT 100% yet but the difference is becoming difficult to percieve. If you truly thing LCD"s are pathetic for gaming your sitting in front of the internet, go do some research because you obviously are clueless or extremely biased. I really wish you could play a game on my monitor to understand.

And I'm not advocating it because of the obvious reasons (Weight, Size, Efficiency) My brother uses a CRT right next to me! Notice about EVERY hardware review site does their benchmarks on LCD's? This isn't half a decade ago when the technology was first becoming mainstream and the image quality difference between the two was astounding, sites now a days use "gaming LCD's" as part of their reviews for a reason.

That's the second time you've come to me with some condecending bullshit, so either shut your fucking mouth or make it clear your post is a opinion rather then I'm king of the world this is how it goes.
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Dazz99




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:28    Post subject:
CRT lol Laughing

btw my ingame name is dazz99 so if you see somebody trying to create roadblocks, it's me.


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KrAzY-KaMeL




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Location: City Of Compton
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:36    Post subject:
Gazc156 wrote:
KrAzY-KaMeL wrote:
Well everyone, My game refuses to load when I exit any of my houses now. Piece of shit.




i had this bug, buy another car from trade and exit the garage in that car, should be ok then u can sell the car


Thank's for the tip Gazc156, but I bought about 6 cars and tried leaving the house with them and I'm still stuck at "Saving Game..."

Thank's again, I'm gonna try and figure out what's causing this so I can try Hardcore mode and create roadblocks with Dazz.
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Powertoy_GT




Posts: 137
Location: Portugal
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:37    Post subject:
getthehellout wrote:
You can play offline

Dont vink Gamespy on and no mail and pass in profile then you can play offline


Are you sure if we create an offline profile we'll be able to continue playing after 4th Feb.?
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Leftos




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Location: Patras, Greece
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:48    Post subject:
Given that the message is shown as part of the game's "protection system", I guess that we shall not be able to even launch the game past February 4th.

Weird thing is, I didn't get the message until my system's date was pointing to February 1st. Could it be that easy to override?


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NecroViolator




Posts: 921

PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 17:52    Post subject:
I tried changing my clock and the Launcher said "You have the wrong time and date, please fix this problem"...

Crap it might of worked IF I changed the Clock before startup ???
Maybe the Sync with their Servers...
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Kristian




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Location: Norway
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 19:03    Post subject:
The game is not working here anymore.
It stops at the "Saving... Please Wait..." screen when leaving my house.
wtf is wrong? :\


I hate you.
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deelix
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 19:05    Post subject:
Stealth88 wrote:
The game is not working here anymore.
It stops at the "Saving... Please Wait..." screen when leaving my house.
wtf is wrong? :\
Happend to me, just try again Wink
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KrAzY-KaMeL




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Location: City Of Compton
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 19:23    Post subject:
Stealth88 wrote:
The game is not working here anymore.
It stops at the "Saving... Please Wait..." screen when leaving my house.
wtf is wrong? :\


That's exactly what's happening to me right now! I've tried reloading it a dozen times.
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S.S.S




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 20:02    Post subject:
Dazz99 wrote:
CRT lol Laughing



I have yet to see any LCD monitor (and yes that include those popular Dell 2407WFP and NEC GX2) match the quality of my old and now defunct 19" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB CRT monitor and i'm saying that as an LCD owner (940BW).I'm actually trying to get it repaired since i miss it so much.I have no problems with gaming on my 940BW and it does look good but everything was more crisp and vivid on my 930sb.

Maybe the next generation of LCD (rumored to have a 120hz refresh rate and a16 bit panel) will match the quality of the best CRT monitors out there but they are not there yet.
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moliceiro




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Location: Portugal
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 21:18    Post subject:
Powertoy_GT wrote:
getthehellout wrote:
You can play offline

Dont vink Gamespy on and no mail and pass in profile then you can play offline


Are you sure if we create an offline profile we'll be able to continue playing after 4th Feb.?


Honestly, I think we can continue playing the game in offline mode. Because the game wasn't programmed/compiled to work until 4th February.

Just will not work in online mod, IMHO.


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Mchart




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 21:20    Post subject:
S.S.S wrote:
Dazz99 wrote:
CRT lol Laughing



I have yet to see any LCD monitor (and yes that include those popular Dell 2407WFP and NEC GX2) match the quality of my old and now defunct 19" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB CRT monitor and i'm saying that as an LCD owner (940BW).I'm actually trying to get it repaired since i miss it so much.I have no problems with gaming on my 940BW and it does look good but everything was more crisp and vivid on my 930sb.

Maybe the next generation of LCD (rumored to have a 120hz refresh rate and a16 bit panel) will match the quality of the best CRT monitors out there but they are not there yet.


Refresh rates do not matter for LCD's. Please have some sort of education in what you are talking about before spouting random bullshit. Ask any photographer, or any professional gaming review site what they would rather have. The answer will always be a nice widescreen LCD.
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Ispep
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 21:36    Post subject:
Hi, on the subject of LCD vs CRT I have one thing to say; the quality difference is OBVIOUS but only to people who haven't made the transition to LCD. It takes time for your eyes to adjust and accept LCD's when you switch. Eventually you won't care but the first few months were HELL for me and whilst I can sit here and say LCD is great and all that, I can also remember my experience with CRT and the switch to LCD.

I also fucking hate dead pixels.


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Kamikaze666




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 21:47    Post subject:
it was love at first sight for me and my 26" lcd monitor

no more fuzzy crt's Cool


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PC awesome button = Uninstall!
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crm




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:00    Post subject:
I posted an offline method that worked for closed beta many pages back, hopefully it will work for open beta too I don't see why it wouldn't anyway as follows: go into your my documents folder > tdu > savegame > playername > delete the commondt.sav files from your playersave dir's and try again should work fine.

edit* What that does is make your profile offline and not connect to atari servers, Like I said above I don't gurantee this will work once open beta ends but it's worth a shot.


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S.S.S




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:01    Post subject:
Mchart wrote:
S.S.S wrote:
Dazz99 wrote:
CRT lol Laughing



I have yet to see any LCD monitor (and yes that include those popular Dell 2407WFP and NEC GX2) match the quality of my old and now defunct 19" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB CRT monitor and i'm saying that as an LCD owner (940BW).I'm actually trying to get it repaired since i miss it so much.I have no problems with gaming on my 940BW and it does look good but everything was more crisp and vivid on my 930sb.

Maybe the next generation of LCD (rumored to have a 120hz refresh rate and a16 bit panel) will match the quality of the best CRT monitors out there but they are not there yet.


Refresh rates do not matter for LCD's. Please have some sort of education in what you are talking about before spouting random bullshit. Ask any photographer, or any professional gaming review site what they would rather have. The answer will always be a nice widescreen LCD.


Quote:
Today's LCD flat panels are already obsolete

CES 007 Hold your horses

By Burt Carver: Thursday 11 January 2007, 09:27

ONE OF THE overriding themes at CES has been the dramatic improvements in LCD panel technology.

Every major manufacturer has introduced a 120Hz model, along with claimed improvements in contrast, colour reproduction, and noise reduction. Each of these innovations is striking, but when combined in one year they make for a dramatic change in the performance of LCD panels.

The 120Hz overscan virtually eliminates the motion blurring that occured on 60Hz LCD models. In scenarios where the content is panning there is a dramatic benefit from having the additional frame generated.


Colour reproduction has increased from 8 bit to anywhere from 10 bit to 14 bit. One of the key criticisms of LCD panels has been the reduced colour gamut that they could display.

Finally, improvements in handling noisy source content have completed the trifecta for most manufacturers. Where does this leave the millions of people out there who have purchased a flat panel LCD? The gradual improvements that occured in tube technology meant that CRT televisions had a reasonable shelf life. With the rapid advances in LCD panels, much like the desktop industry, the panel you bought yesterday is rendered obsolete today.

For those people interested in acquiring a flat panel LCD, the technology announced at CES will be filtering into retail over the next six months. Waiting a bit for this technology will is a great idea. Until the same thing happens next year at CES.


You were saying ? Very Happy
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Powertoy_GT




Posts: 137
Location: Portugal
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:07    Post subject:
crm wrote:
I posted an offline method that worked for closed beta many pages back, hopefully it will work for open beta too I don't see why it wouldn't anyway as follows: go into your my documents folder > tdu > savegame > playername > delete the commondt.sav files from your playersave dir's and try again should work fine.

edit* What that does is make your profile offline and not connect to atari servers, Like I said above I don't gurantee this will work once open beta ends but it's worth a shot.


Thanks for the tip Cool

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* moliceiro tb andas por aki Very Happy
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fetjocke




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Location: :D
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:31    Post subject:
I have a BIG gfx problem in this game, i can barely see the people in the beginning, just some parts of thier clothes...Unplayable.It wont be a problem for my pc to run this game: AMD Athlon 3800+ X2, Geforce 7600 GS 512mb, 1,5 gb ram. Gfx driver: 93.71 I can play Rainbow Six Vegas at high settings so i really would be able to run this game.. Thanks in advance Smile

EDIT: I only have that problem when playing on 1280*1024 :S No problems at 1024*768.


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crm




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:38    Post subject:
fetjocke wrote:
I have a BIG gfx problem in this game, i can barely see the people in the beginning, just some parts of thier clothes...Unplayable.It wont be a problem for my pc to run this game: AMD Athlon 3800+ X2, Geforce 7600 GS 512mb, 1,5 gb ram. Gfx driver: 93.71 I can play Rainbow Six Vegas at high settings so i really would be able to run this game.. Thanks in advance Smile


Restart the game a few times it's a bug.
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fetjocke




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:41    Post subject:
Roger that Very Happy Realized that a little, because sometimes when I change the resolution in-game, it works.. Razz
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KrAzY-KaMeL




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Location: City Of Compton
PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 22:47    Post subject:
Yes the quality difference is there but like I said difficult to percieve for the average person. I don't know what kind of panels you guys are comparing to CRT's but there are some extremely high quality LCD's with great pixel pitch and very very sharp displays that may loose a few shots to a CRT in some catagories (Color Reproduction, Viewing Angle, etc.) But the benefits for the average user are much greater. Honestly ghosting is a thing of the past, unless your buying a 16ms response time monitor from 2 years ago for the most part you won't run into ghosting now a days.

And on the topic of downscaling below a native res, It looks like ass to me specifically because I have a 20+inch LCD. That's a lot of realstate and dropping to a lower resolution the interpolation is much much more noticeable because of the sheer size of the screen. If you try it with 19's or even 17's it's much better.

Yes refresh rate matters, but that only applies to ghosting again. It has nothing to do with the other attributes of a monitor. Using a CRT is not a viable option for me, my desk cannot support the weight, I don't want to deal with the power consumption, or the strain on my eyes not to mention half my work space taken up. Unless your involved in certain projects I personally see no reason for people to clinge on to CRT's in the next 1-2 years.

But if you love your CRT you love your CRT so keep CRT'ing away with your CRT. Laughing
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Glottis
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 23:20    Post subject:
fetjocke wrote:
Roger that Very Happy Realized that a little, because sometimes when I change the resolution in-game, it works.. Razz

so does altabing.


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Kristian




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Location: Norway
PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Feb 2007 00:12    Post subject:
fuck.
still got the "Saving... Please Wait..." bug Sad
Wtf is wrong? :\
Tried to restart the game and my pc 2364 times.


I hate you.
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KrAzY-KaMeL




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Location: City Of Compton
PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Feb 2007 00:18    Post subject:
Stealth88 wrote:
fuck.
still got the "Saving... Please Wait..." bug Sad
Wtf is wrong? :\
Tried to restart the game and my pc 2364 times.


I fixed mine by changing resolution, bump your res down and try loading it. Try a few different ones it should work.
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snakes3x




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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Feb 2007 00:29    Post subject:
To those who think the handling is shit, increase the Steering Bar Sensitivity to maximum and see how that feels.
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