Hey, I really like it!  I've already played a few online games and multiplayer really makes a game more fun. well if it's the right genre.. multiplayer pinball would suck.  Anyway the force feedback is pretty tame... was it meant to not be so pounding and more subtle?  I have a gamepad so maybe the effects are more harsh with a steering wheel.  I think ff would be a good way to represent curves - I don't know how you're supposed to know they are there without the narrator.  Where is the old school bus?

hehe. that would be funny. I'm gonna download ts 2 now and see what's it about.

Same here. Happened only once, though, and I can find no way of reproducing it

For me it works fine, only i have to search a multi player opponent
Big smile

Hi Arjan and the rest,
I just received an error report from someone by mail. Do you experience the crash right after or during finish, about 1 times in 4? If so, it might help setting the difficulty to something other then easy. We will probably release a patch for this. If the problem persists could you send me a tracing.txt file from the Top Speed folder right after the crash? It could give me some clues where to look.
Thanks,
Davy
BTW : my email is [email protected]

i don't think in the documentation it says how to create own tracks and cars. is there going to be an addon available that lets you create them?
well, i've had some trouble here. i set up a server, pressed enter and waited, and my friend had my ip, and when he tried join an internet game, it didn't work. Same happened for me, when i tried to join him on his server, there was just a message searching for games and after a minute i was teleported back to the multiplayer menu. right, can anyone explain what i've done wrong?

Hello,
In the document you can read that Davi will post information about how to create your own cars and tracks, on the topspeed community site.

About multi playing
Check that your firewall dont disable topspeed 2, after yuo will try to search a server, it will display a dialog about topspeed, and you can press the enable button to enable the internet access for it.
After it, make sure that you havent got dinamic ip, otherwise you'll need a dns server. There are free dns servers like myip.org, and so on.
Okay.
I will explain how to set up a server and how can you join to it:
if you are the server:
run topspeed, choose the multiplayer game, and select host a new game.
Choose the track, choose your car, then you will be in the beginning of the track. It will say: waiting for players, press enter to start.
It is quite simple, when your friend joined to your server, you will hear that player two has joined, after it you can press enter to start the game.
Always choose the host a new game option, and dont forget to choose a track and a wehicle, and your transmission settings as well.
If you wanna join to a server.
Make sure that your firewall is not blocking topspeed.
(i am talked about windows firewall, wich comes with win xp sp2 previously)
Then write your friends ip address in the server selector program, and press ok.
After it , run topspeed, choose the multiplayer game, choose join an internet game.
After it, the game will try to join to the specified ip.
If you are behind a router, then in most situations, you cant host a game, however it can possible with dns servers, and with your router's ip address as well, but i wont explain it now.
If you wanna play with tpspeed2, then you have to decide which track do you wanna play with.
Then the fun can start.
Hope that i could help.

I would like to make a tournament, where eight players can multiplay against each other, it would be fun.
Well, the lesson starts right now, so i have to go and learn
Best regards:
Robjoy

okay.
Start topspeed, without unloading jaws.
Navigate in the menu with the up and down arrows, just press before the key pass keystroke (by default it is insert plus 3)
Press enter on multi player game
select host a new game, and press enter
for now, if your firewall blocking ts2, then you should see a dialog, if you cant see, try pressing alt+tab, then jaws should read it. If you cant see the firewall's message, probably then ts2 is enabled.

For the ts team, i have a request.
I think ts2 would be nice with this features:
1. interruptability in the menus: means that when you press the down arrow from quick start, then it will stop the previous menuitem's sound (and with the up arrow as well)
2. The ability to race against computer cars in street adventures too.

Best regards,
Robjoy

see, its when it comes to searching for an internet game. argh, that probably means i have a router. i already thought i had a routre but was not sure.

Hi Aaron,
As I said in one of the previous posts, the game can crash when playing on the "easy" difficulty level. A patch will be released soon, but untill then, set the game to normal or hard.
The long waiting time in multiplayer is because it's the person running the server that decides when the race starts. If the server starts the race before you have selected your car, you have to wait untill the next race.

Robjoy,
about your third suggestion : we'll be releasing the street adventures as an addon track shortly. This will allow you to race them against computer computer opponents.

Drive safely!
Davy

hello davy
the game is awesome! good job
just 2 questions:
1. what was the langwage used to write topspeed 2?
2. what media library the game uses to manege user input and sound manipulation
thanks

Hi, about the questions :
Top Speed was written in C++ in combination with DirectX. But I'm thinking of using C# for the next project. DirectX is used for everything : sound, input, force feedback, networkplay. I do use the ogg format for soundfiles. Ogg is a compression format simular to mp3 but license free and open source. It was easy to integrate the ogg libraries with DirectX. With it we were able to compress quite a lot of audio into the 7 megabyte download.
And Robjoy, if you hit a car, it does bump away. But you have to hit it pretty hard to bump it of the road.