I remember the day I bought GP4, the game was just released and I was on summer holidays on Europe.
I first played it in a Compaq Presario laptop with Windows XP that I took with me for the trip.
I had to ran the game in low settings to get 30 fps, which was the standard at the time, and I loved it.
The pit crew animations added a level or realism that was unseen in a racing game.
At some point, I learned a trick to improve performance that involved changing a sound settings in XP.
Anyway, with all those hardware limitations and performance issues of those early days, I can't really remember vanilla GP4 crashing that often.
I think the crashes started for me in later versions of Windows, maybe in 7, 8 or 10, I am not sure.
And for some reason, I have the impression that they are less frequent when the game launches from ZaZ tools / CSM, but I may be wrong.
Is there a particular, or at least, a most common reason for GP4 crashing? What is your experience with GP4 crashes?