GP4 EAX environmental sound option enabled, engine reverb in Monaco Tunnel, no CTD. GPXPATCH use CPU ALL

Ok I just sent a message to Nigel in linkedin, who worked on GP4 sounds
[www.linkedin.com]

[www.mobygames.com]

Nigel James Brown (born January 8, 1973, in Nottingham, England) is currently Company Director at Impromptu Software Limited. He left his position as position as Audio Manager at Core Design to work for the company. Previously, he worked on the Geoff Crammond’s series of Grand Prix racing simulators for Microprose/Atari as an audio programmer. He expanded the audio support for the product to include 3D surround-sound and environmental effects as well as implementing a system for interactively mixing the game sound in real-time.

At Impromptu Software, now holding the position of Company Director, he has worked on a number of high-profile titles with Sumo Digital, Sega, Codemasters, Konami, EA, Monumental Games and Somethin' Else.

His past credits include:Grand Prix 3 Grand Prix 4* Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness * Smartbomb * B-Boy
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if he says no eax can't be done for GP4 lan multiplayer, this would settle it.

Nice that there´s still contact with the GP4 development team. Maybe they can help us to improve some sounds and multiplayer functionallity.

PROGRAMMING:
Neil Alford - Jalea Clements -
Neil Duffield - Julian Foxall -
Steve Haggerty - Matt Patterson -
Duncan Rooth - Tim Round -
Jeremy Sallis - Nick Thompson -
Jason Turner

linkedin
-Neil Duffield
[www.linkedin.com]

-Steve Haggerty
[www.linkedin.com]

-Jeremy Sallis
[www.linkedin.com]

-Tim Round
[www.linkedin.com]


Senior Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer
Infogrames – Microprose StudioInfogrames – Microprose Studio
2001 - 2002 · 1 yr2001 - 2002 · 1 yr
Responsibilities included liaising with Geoff Crammond (the original author of the Geoff Crammond Grand Prix series) regarding the conversion of the PC assembly language to the PS2. The code base for the Grand Prix games is almost entirely assembly language. I also dealt with configuration issues on the PC version of GP4 and also helped out on the Xbox version.


-Nigel James Brown
[www.linkedin.com]


Found 5 people from programming team in linkedin and sent message to all of them
hopefully someone will reply



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gp4wonder Wrote:
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> PROGRAMMING:
> Neil Alford - Jalea Clements -
> Neil Duffield - Julian Foxall -
> Steve Haggerty - Matt Patterson -
> Duncan Rooth - Tim Round -
> Jeremy Sallis - Nick Thompson -
> Jason Turner
>
> linkedin
> -Neil Duffield
> [www.linkedin.com]
> details/experience/
>
> -Steve Haggerty
> [www.linkedin.com]
> /
>
> -Jeremy Sallis
> [www.linkedin.com]
> details/experience/
>
> -Tim Round
> [www.linkedin.com]
> ils/experience/
>
> -Nigel James Brown
> [www.linkedin.com]
>
>
> Found 5 people from programming team in linkedin a
> nd sent message to all of them
> hopefully someone will reply

I'm wondering (no phun intended ) if some of them would be surprised that someone is still trying such things in a (kinda) old game.

if they don't respond that's ok, was worth a try I think.
It maybe an old game but to hear from someone that still plays it, would be an honour
besides they mention GP4 in their experience.



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gp4wonder Wrote:
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> if they don't respond that's ok, was worth a try
> I think.
> It maybe an old game but to hear from someone that
> still plays it, would be an honour
> besides they mention GP4 in their experience.


Definitely it worth a try.

Maybe, this answer in the interview with Geoff might give you a clue about it:

I got the tyre rumble working in multiplayer, version 1.0 unpatched

[drive.google.com]

changing gp4.exe to gp4.ini and using textpad editor search for GPAudio::To3D()
by putting this on the next line:- GPAudio::To3D() and adding space



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Nice work.

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My Grand Prix 4 Files
I'm a total dick. How many people can say that?

Nice. Did you test it on version 1.02? Not work the same way?

no news from the programmers and looks like gpxpatch guy is out to, not much happening there.
Just have to live with no reverb/crowds in MP, that's cool.
The folks that created gpxpatch really did a great job. Under the Engine.wave
section in gpxsound tab, i changed the min distance to 20
sounded great hearing all the other cars, made an impact on immersion.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/05/2023 01:25AM by gp4wonder.