Redundant track .bin files

Are the .bin files found in Grand Prix 4\MenuData\PC\GP2001\Objects required for anything?

The same files are found inside the individual track .wad file so I was thinking the files in Grand Prix 4\MenuData\PC\GP2001\Objects are redundant and could be deleted?

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Intel NUC 8i3, 8GB RAM, MS Sidewinder Wheel

Do a test, move them out of the directory and see what happens. That way you can restore them if you have to. I wouldn't bother, unless you are really desperate for free space.

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The have a function; the game looks here for track sectors that don't receive rain.

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The have a function; the game looks here for track sectors that don't receive rain.

It looks here and not at the .bin file inside the .wad? Even for custom tracks?

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Intel NUC 8i3, 8GB RAM, MS Sidewinder Wheel

Yep. For crowd textures in the wet the game look also in the main folder.

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And some driver art files (for Panis and Villeneuve, swapped initially, then re-swapped in the 1.02 patch) are outside regular .wad files as well. The program looks like to have a fallback option to look for these files in the main directory.

I think that the game was far from ready when the game was released and those maps were some kind of leftovers.

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Yes, Geoff said so as well in an interview something like that they had to hurry up due to the planned closure of Microprose. I suspect a lot of finetuning work never took place - I blame the vanilla game's occiasional crashes and the relatively high system reqs on this.