Grand Prix 3 on Windows 7, can it work?

Hi guy's,

I am attempting to install Grand Prix 3 onto my Windows 7 64 bit and I am not sure if I need to do more than just install and load the game, Ive tried it already and got it load but it runs very slow on a decent level of detail and have removed in the hope someone can help me do it properly? I have 8GB ram, a Radeon HD 6870 GPU and an i5 660 3.3ghz Processor, if that helps at all. I can play F1 2015 at 30-40 fps so puzzled as to how an old game runs so slow? Im not mega techy haha cheers all. New here to so hey to you all! Oh can GP4 work on Windows 7? Cheers,

Henry

here, gp3 runs flawless on win7/64 (because I have 512MB dedicated VRAM on my notebook)
so on machines with no extra videoRAM you only can play the game in Software-Mode (reach SW-mode inside gameoptions->grafics->change Adapter)

no prob with gp4 on win7

pirx Wrote:
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> here, gp3 runs flawless on win7/64 (because I have
> 512MB dedicated VRAM on my notebook)
> so on machines with no extra videoRAM you only can
> play the game in Software-Mode (reach SW-mode
> inside gameoptions->grafics->change Adapter)
>
> no prob with gp4 on win7


Hi there,

Okie dokie, so with my PC do I need to change it to software mode?

..yes, try it in SWmode

pirx Wrote:
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> ..yes, try it in SWmode


I will give it a go tomorrow and get back to you! Is that all I need to do, do I need run it in a compatibility mode?

pirx Wrote:
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> ..yes, try it in SWmode


Yeah that doesn't work, the game just crashes

these steps could help you:

1... Shutdown with ATI-Controlcenter:
all ! graficcard-features like Antialiasing/Anisotropic Filtering/Thread optimization/Texturefiltering/Shadercache/etc...
Make this settings work for Gp3_2000.exe!

2... give "GP3_2000.exe" (in gamedir) admin-rights by rightclick and check the file as WinXP-SP2-compatible

....................
many people reported the same lack of framerate when in HW-mode -only solution for them was runnning a WinXP-partition and install the game there.
I never heard that the game didn´t run in SW-mode..

I hope others know more than me, sorry

pirx Wrote:
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> these steps could help you:
>
> 1... Shutdown with ATI-Controlcenter:
> all ! graficcard-features like
> Antialiasing/Anisotropic Filtering/Thread
> optimization/Texturefiltering/Shadercache/etc...
> Make this settings work for Gp3_2000.exe!
>
> 2... give "GP3_2000.exe" (in gamedir) admin-rights
> by rightclick and check the file as
> WinXP-SP2-compatible
>
> ....................
> many people reported the same lack of framerate
> when in HW-mode -only solution for them was
> runnning a WinXP-partition and install the game
> there.
> I never heard that the game didn´t run in
> SW-mode..
>
> I hope others know more than me, sorry


I've tried all the admin rights stuff and have no idea how partition the XP thing, some people can run it on W7 clearly without SW mode...[www.youtube.com]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2015 07:31PM by kelsh003.