kedy89's workthread ::: 2011 mod v2.0 [released]

lol, now I'm confused. This is what I get with my teamart.ini:


And this is how it looks like when I use yours:

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To find out what's going on here let's go back to the original GP4 and the reason for that problem.

In 2001 season team 5 = BAR has drivers
9 = Olivier Panis
10=Jaques Villeneuve

My original GP4 displays the driver select with correct order but the gpaedia drivers with wrong order

because of the gps files mistake:

9 michael schumacher\ferrari
...
jacques villeneuve\bar honda
olivier panis\bar honda
...

The gpi assignment
55.gpi = villeneuve
56.gpi = panis
is also in wrong order and thus fits the (wrong) gpaedia but not the (correct) driver select.

So in the drivers gpaedia you will get correct pictures,
in the driver select display both pictures and gpaedia display (using "?" with the right mouse click) are exchanged.

If I create gpaedia for a mod, driver 9 and 10 will then be in correct order of course:

9 michael schumacher\ferrari
...
olivier panis\bar honda
jacques villeneuve\bar honda
...

Which means that the assignment of the pictures has to be changed also.
For example in my 2001mod this is done in folder teamarts ini files by specifying

[Drivers]
...
File9=Drivers\jacques villeneuve.gpi
File10=Drivers\olivier panis.gpi

Now in the 2001mod both drivers gpaedia and driver select displays are o.k.:

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/29/2013 05:43PM by petrus.

And here we have the difference, this is how the driver selection looks in my original GP4:


BAR drivers are in correct order, with the correct gpis. In the gpaedia they are in the wrong order, but with correct gpis:


55.gpi = Villeneuve
56.gpi = Panis

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kedy89 schrieb:
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> And here we have the difference, ...

That's interesting, isn't it?

In a post by Lo2k about "gp4 menu editing" I read
"gph file is storing descriptions about gpi files stored in the images folder".
So perhaps this file may be the difference.
Let's figure it out. This is my GP2001.gph.

BTW: My GP4 Readme File says "V1.00 March, 2002"

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petrus' gpaedia files



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/29/2013 07:03PM by petrus.

here's mine, don't really know how to compare them. File size and date are the same... [www.mediafire.com]

Readme says the same, do you have the official patch 9.6 installed?

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kedy89 schrieb:
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> here's mine, don't really know how to compare
> them. File size and date are the same...

Thanks.
As you already suspected our gph files are identical. I checked them with WinMerge.

> Readme says the same, do you have the official
> patch 9.6 installed?

I am running the decrypted GP4.exe from GP4_1.02_nocd.zip where the 9.6 patch is included.

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I don't think that the patch is included there, this just means that this is the noCD.exe for the patched game.

This is a part of the readme of the 9.6 patch:

Quote

2.1. Microprose - Behobene Probleme
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Liste der Bugs, die mit V9.6 behoben wurden:

...

2. Im Fenster "Fahrerauswahl" sind die Namen Panis und Villeneuve vertauscht:
Bei Panis' Bild steht Villeneuves Name, und umgekehrt.

...

Looking at your pic, this describes the problem you have. So I'd say that you haven't installed the 9.6 patch

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kedy89 schrieb:
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> Looking at your pic, this describes the problem you have. So I'd say that you haven't installed the 9.6 patch

This is logical and describes the reason for the difference.
As a result the teamart.ini changes are not recommended for users with 9.6 patch installed.

With my version one can get a working driver select and driver gpaedia by exchangig the gpis.
With 9.6 patch one has to live with exchanged pictures (either driver select or driver gpaedia) or wrong gpaedia just because they only fixed this problem half way through. So I see a problem more on this side.

As wrong pictures are annoying, the best way for gp4 with 9.6 patch then is probably to use wrong gpaedia, i.e. driver 9/10 in drivers gpaedia in wrong order.
This is easily done by GPaediaMakers driver switch feature. Here my 2013 gpaedia for patch 9.6. I did not test it, so please tell me if this works.
If anybody is curious about creating/editing the gpaedia with the tool GPaediaMaker, I could also give a link to the CSV files with the data and some description how to do it.

Anyway, I hope this discussion contains useful informaton for everyone who wants to play this (or any other) mod.

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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2013 09:50AM by petrus.

It works

One question regarding the editing of the CSV files: How do I import the track.csv file into Excel?
I have no problem when importing the driver & team CSV files, everything looks fine there. But when I do it the same way with the track.csv, it looks like this:

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kedy89 schrieb:
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> It works
That's fine

> But when I do it the same way with the track.csv, it looks like this ...

Looks like a wrong delimiter (comma instead of semicolon).
Be careful to use characterset "unicode" (UTF16) and the semicolon as delimiter.

Instead of using the CSV files I posted in GP4forever (they are made for josekasts mod)
I recommend using the 2013CSV_mod_kedy89 from which I created the gpaedia for you.
See readme.txt for processing.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2013 04:42PM by petrus.

petrus schrieb:
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> kedy89 schrieb:
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> > It works
> That's fine
>
> > But when I do it the same way with the
> track.csv, it looks like this ...
>
> Looks like a wrong delimiter (comma instead of
> semicolon).
> Be careful to use characterset "unicode" (UTF16)
> and the semicolon as delimiter.
>
> Instead of using the CSV files I posted in
> GP4forever (they are made for josekasts mod)
> I recommend using the 2013CSV_mod_kedy89 from
> which I created the gpaedia for you.
> See readme.txt for processing.


I've selected semicolon as delimiter, however I can't select Unicode UTF-16, only UTF-7 or UTF-8 (Excel 2010)

EDIT: ok, it now works. I opened the file with editor, saved it as unicode utf-8, then opened it with Excel. Now everything looks fine.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2013 05:26PM by kedy89.

kedy89 schrieb:
> I opened the file with editor, saved it as unicode utf-8, then opened it with Excel. Now everything looks fine.

But UTF-8 will not work as gpaedia file, must be UTF-16.
You can use notepad++ to achieve this.
Choose "Encode in UCS-2 Little Endian" which is the same as UTF-16.

I am using OpenOffice 3.3 for the tables.
It can save CSV in "Unicode" which is UTF-16.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2013 06:33PM by petrus.

After a bit of testing with an installed GP4 9.6 patch I see that switching drivers in gpaedia does not really solve the problem, because now you will get the wrong driver 9/10 gpaedia if you right click in the driver select menu.

It's a pity, but it seems we have got no way to get all menu displays perfect while using the 9.6 patched gp4
Because the driver select menu is of more importance than the drivers gpaedia, it may be the best to accept wrong driver 9/10 pictures in gpaedia. That means: use normal gpaedia with driver 9/10 in correct order but do not change gpis in teamarts ini files if you use the 9.6 patched gp4.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2013 02:04PM by petrus.

F1 2013 Mod Update 2

Includes:
-Ferrari Monaco update by rracunis
-Lotus Hungary update by Excalibur
-2013 engine sound for Williams, Toro Rosso and Marussia by Briere
-2013 gpaedia by petrus & josekast
-Vettel's Germany helmet by josekast
-performance files up to Hungary by gitanes
-loadingscreens up to Hungary
-minor fixes

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hi,

my game lags so much with your mod ,i cant understand why ?
My specs are,

Win 7,
2 gb ram,
intel core 2 duo 2.20 ghz
Intel g ma 4500m

Please suggest,and i cant see the tv overlay in it,like i choose star sports

Your Slow graphic Unit

thanks Kedy for the update!

Kimi-The-Champ Wrote:
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> Your Slow graphic Unit

how much it need

thats a notebook right? buy you a cheap AMD complete PC

dwapar schrieb:
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> hi,
>
> my game lags so much with your mod ,i cant
> understand why ?
> My specs are,
>
> Win 7,
> 2 gb ram,
> intel core 2 duo 2.20 ghz
> Intel g ma 4500m
>
> Please suggest,and i cant see the tv overlay in
> it,like i choose star sports


#1: what KTC said. This mod uses lod_0 only and has some very high-res textures. You could try downsizing the car, helmet and tyre textures with slimtex.

#2: could be caused by your screen resolution. Which one do you use?

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