Use this guide if you don’t have the game on Steam.
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Table of contents
1. Game Download
Download the game on archive.org. You can either download the ISO file (very slow) or use a torrent program like qBittorrent. If you don’t know how to use a torrent program, follow these steps:
- Download and install qBitTorrent: https://www.qbittorrent.org/download
- Download the TDU2 torrent file (under “Download Options”) from the link below, save and open it with qBittorrent. Press ok and the download process will start.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 - Multilanguage DVD [EN/FR/GE/IT/ES] : Eden Games : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

2. Installation
After downloading the game, double-click the ISO file in the downloaded folder to mount it.
A virtual DVD drive should show up in your file explorer, open it. It will look something like this:

- Before installing the game itself, install the additional programs to ensure that the game runs correctly. You will find everything in the virtual DVD drive / setup folder
- In order to make the game run you also need VCRedist and DirectX (xinput1_3.dll), which you can download here:
VC2005, VC2008, DirectX (download and install all three by clicking on them)
- Open the drive or the TDU2_EU_ISO folder and run the installer/setup.exe file.
- Tick “Custom installation” on the bottom left of the installer popup.
- It will take you through the install process.