Hi,
I'm new to this forum, and a big fan of GP ... but I've never played GP4 yet.
Used to play F1GP a lot (really, a lot), and I liked F1GP2 very much as well, but never had a computer that matched the requirements for that game.
Since then a lot of time has passed, and now I'm trying GP4 on my Windows 7 64-bit, but it does not work!
He says I need to install DirectX 8.1, while I have DirectX11 (and also a card that supports that).
Installing DirectX 8.1 (from the GP4 CD) does not seem to work, as it seems to install in less than 1 second, then says it is OK, but when you startup the game it says DirectX 8.1 not available.
Obviously, the presence of DirectX11 is preventing a normal DirectX8 installation ... but, how do you fix this issue ? I guess backwards compatibility of DirectX is a myth.
I have the same problem for GP3 by the way (which asks for DirectX 7 I think), but this behaves exactly the same.
F1GP and F1GP2 work though (in DOS emulated mode that is).
Thanks