Grand Prix 4 on Windows 10

The crashes seem to be caused by video and sound drivers.

René Smit, Independent Software Developer.
Download my GPx tools here.

Thanks René,could video drivers be the reasons for such high po as well?i had to download new windows 10 nvidia drivers and new realtek windows 10 drivers as well,thanks

Greetings
Alessio


CoM3 oN McL4R3n.....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2015 12:05AM by Alessio88.

Could be, I don't know

René Smit, Independent Software Developer.
Download my GPx tools here.

I have just upgraded my Windows 8.1 PC to Windows 10. Upgrade went smoothly. With no major issues (yet!).

Fired up and ran GP4 via GPxPatch (as Admin, with Windows XP SP2 compatibility). Watched a race from start to finish, no issues there either. no CTD! So, it was Looking promising at first.

Especially after I also loaded up 'Team Editor' by Lo2k to make changes to helmet and steering postions. That went OK as well.

Latest Update is:
ALAS! Sadly after further testing, I am forced to come back here to update this post with very sad news: Even on my new upgraded-to-Windows-10-from-Windows-8.1 PC, GP4 still crashes regularly, just as badly as before!

Even after re-installing the game and playing on a fresh install with no decryption, no CSM, no Updates or Patches, no Mods, no GPxPatch, etc, the game still crashes fairly regularly.

It's a lost cause now for me I'm afraid. I have lost all hope of ever again being able to enjoy GP4 without constant CTD (sparing the unthinkable prospect of having to revert back completely to a Windows XP computer!!!)

Goodbye GP4! Oh well. was fun while it lasted.

Goodluck to y'all.

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EDIT, 1 year on:

In case this is helpful for someone else still stuck in a similar situation I was in a year ago: It is just over one year later, and I have new hope for GP4 , as I can start to see some progress regarding overcoming CTD issues - It has taken me this long to finally discover only now that AVG Anti-virus has been the BIGGEST part of my problems all long!!! The reason being, ever since I switched to Avast Anti-virus, GP4 CTDs hardly ever happens anymore, or it happens much much less now

(once-in-a-while the game still crashes while loading, during the Calibrate Audio / Calibrate Graphics phase, but at least now I can pretty much expect to get through an entire race distance at almost every attempt - which had become nearly impossible to do under AVG Anti-virus without the frustrating near-guarantee of a looming CTD, even when I temporarily disabled AVG just to play GP4).

So my recommendation, if you happen to be using AVG Anti virus and you are having constant & frustrating GP4 CTDs, get rid of AVG! It is NOT ENOUGH to disable it whenever you wish to play GP4 - to me it still seemed somehow to be able to affect the stability of GP4 all the time. so, Just uninstall AVG completely (which was actually a painful process in itself, but that's a whole 'nother chapter for another day!) and then go with a totally different Anti-virus program!!! e.g. Avast seems to be adequately OK, and much much more friendly towards GP4.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/2016 08:44AM by vicnsi.

SDI Wrote:
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> Could be, I don't know

Ok thanks a lot Renè for your help as Always,I've got fps down to 45 now from 55 and it's fine I've tried to re install the drivers by Nvidia but didn't work maybe they are just a beta version and next ones will be ok,I hope at least it's running and i didn't notice a big difference between 45 and 55 fps cheers

Greetings
Alessio


CoM3 oN McL4R3n.....

@rracunis @tommy90
Both of you don't seem to be running gpxpatch in xp sp3 compability mode. maybe try that.

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Kedy,windows 10 won't let me decide gpxpatch compatibility mode,I can do it with gp4.exe and csm but not with gpxpatch

Greetings
Alessio


CoM3 oN McL4R3n.....

At least I didn't upgrade Windows 10 cause I think Windows 7 is more way better for GP4.

@kedy

same thing with XP SP3. I've reinstalled GP4, but that hasn't helped.

I have installed my gp4 on an 2nd partition, maybe try that??

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Alessio88 Wrote:
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> Kedy,windows 10 won't let me decide gpxpatch
> compatibility mode,I can do it with gp4.exe and
> csm but not with gpxpatch

Yeah Kedy , same here !

Gp4 and windows 10 working perfectly.
Gp4builder works too.
Zaz tools working too.

I did notice a few things for example in the game that some tracks were doing some clipping
when in windows 8.1 were not.

I also played movies and their is a huge improvement in display, i used movies that i already saw
several times that i have in the PC as source of comparison.

Only bad i had to install again some 3d programs that i use. The rest didnt change .

Overall i think is good for now but NOTHING IS FOR FREE, Microsoft wants us to be dependant of them
and to elimate its Linux competitors.



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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/2017 05:43AM by jawwad01.

I just updated to windows 10 myself although with less problems. Did Windows 10 prompt you to download and install Direct Play? Once direct play was installed on my laptop, gp4 works perfectly. I did have to roll back my video card drivers to an earlier version as well. Sorry but that is all I can offer. Hope you get your problem sorted out. Have a great day.

Glenn (Cdn)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/2017 05:41AM by jawwad01.

After latest update on Windows 10, 15/06/2016, GP4 has 'first chance exception' errors and drops out.
I have tried GPxPatch but get same results.
I also have a new 24" Asus display?
I have tried locking in display 'dpi' in compatibility options but no difference.
Does anyone have a work around?
Thanks, KH

PS: I did a restart on the PC as I was working on a very large document (300+ pages) and thought that it might have left some random data in memory but the issue remained after a complete shut-down and restart with GPxPatch first opened program.
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GPXPatch Log: (edited)

It looks like some sort of memory issue?

Starting log
GPxPatch version: 3.91
GPx version detected: decrypted GP4 v1.02
Verbosity level is 0
OS version info: Windows NT 6.2 build 9200
Total physical memory: 2047 MB (free: 2047 MB)
Debugging gp4.exe
Waiting for debug events...
Injecting DLL loading code...
Injection succesful
First chance exception
Exception address: 0x7743256a
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to read from virtual address 0x00c42151
First chance exception
Exception address: 0x7743256a
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
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Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to read from virtual address 0x58070083
Unhandled exception
Exception address: 0x00509fbd
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to read from virtual address 0x58070083
Stack trace:
00509FBD: Program Files (x86)\Infogrames\Grand Prix 4\GPXPATCH.EXE! <no symbol>
774338F4: WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL! BaseThreadInitThunk + 36 bytes
77AD5DE3: WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll! RtlUnicodeStringToInteger + 595 bytes
77AD5DAE: WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll! RtlUnicodeStringToInteger + 542 bytes
Registers:
EAX=58070083 ECX=58070083 ESI=72037640
EBX=0050A190 EDX=00000000 EDI=00000010
CS:EIP=0023:00509FBD
SS:ESP=002B:047FFE90 EBP=047FFF80
DS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B
Flags=00010202
Stack dump:
047ffe90: 0054e75d 00000010 72037640 047fff80 '].T.....@v.r....'
047ffea0: 047ffeb4 0050a190 00000000 0050a190 '......P.......P.'
047ffeb0: 00000000 0050a195 720234e6 00000010 '......P..4.r....'
047ffec0: 00000000 001804e8 00000000 00000000 '................'
047ffed0: 720233e0 720233e0 00000000 00000000 '.3.r.3.r........'
047ffee0: 001804e8 00000000 ffffb25e ffffffff '........^.......'
047ffef0: 00000002 00000000 00000010 00000021 '............!...'
047fff00: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
047fff10: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
047fff20: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
047fff30: 00000000 00000000 00000254 00000294 '........T.......'
047fff40: 000002dc 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
047fff50: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
047fff60: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
047fff70: 00000000 00000000 00000000 fb7b69d5 '.............i{.'
047fff80: 047fff94 774338f4 00000000 774338d0 '.....8Cw.....8Cw'
047fff90: d30bec09 047fffdc 77ad5de3 00000000 '.........].w....'
047fffa0: ce7b5e23 00000000 00000000 00000000 '#^{.............'
047fffb0: c0000005 7661f320 00000000 047ff8a4 '.... .av........'
047fffc0: ce7b5e23 047fffa0 047ff8a4 047fffe4 '#^{.............'
047fffd0: 77aeed50 bdb295e7 00000000 047fffec 'P..w............'
047fffe0: 77ad5dae ffffffff 77afb7d2 00000000 '.].w.......w....'
047ffff0: 00000000 720233e0 00000000 00000000 '.....3.r........'
First chance exception
Exception address: 0x77aadc0e
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to read from virtual address 0x5807008b



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2016 01:48AM by Lumpy20.

GPxPatch version: 3.91

Maybe an update to latest GPxPatch would be useful. Not sure it would solve your issue though.

And unless the info is enough for René to help you, you should put verbosity to High to have more details of the crash.

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Thanks for the tip.
New version of GPxPatch is now working.
Also previously I had 2 x ASUS 22" displays (16:10) but added a new (secondhand) 24" ASUS (16:9)
I think this might have also created some issues.
However GPXPatch 4.44 (file version 4.4.4.3) is now working.
Many thanks to those who keep this great game going.
Regards, KH

Yes, GPxPatch 4.44 fixes bugs in GP4 that caused crashes with multiple monitors.

René Smit, Independent Software Developer.
Download my GPx tools here.