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Posted by Hart
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[www.gp4central.com] <----GP4 CentralGood to see you are happy with the game and I pretty much agree with your sentiment.
As for your performance, it depends whether you use GPxPatch and check the Car power team dependent box on the GPxSet tab - if you do, you're racing with the actual Minardi power and grip, which is not that much, so it lifts up your performance, but if you don't, you're racing with a sort of player car power and grip, which - I believe - is up there with the fastest cars anyway, so, naturally, that brings that 9th place a bit more into context.
But in any case, 9th place is pretty good against a Pro AI anyway! I have tons of experience with this game and even I can't beat the AI on Ace on a lot of tracks on one lap (even less so during a race distance, because it requires so much mental effort to make no mistakes at all). On some tracks, I even have issues beating Semi Pro.
How was your race from 9th on the grid?
My workthread - [www.grandprixgames.org]
Full of classic F1/non-F1 track layouts
My blog about F1 performance analysis - [thef1formbook.wordpress.com]
As for your performance, it depends whether you use GPxPatch and check the Car power team dependent box on the GPxSet tab - if you do, you're racing with the actual Minardi power and grip, which is not that much, so it lifts up your performance, but if you don't, you're racing with a sort of player car power and grip, which - I believe - is up there with the fastest cars anyway, so, naturally, that brings that 9th place a bit more into context.
But in any case, 9th place is pretty good against a Pro AI anyway! I have tons of experience with this game and even I can't beat the AI on Ace on a lot of tracks on one lap (even less so during a race distance, because it requires so much mental effort to make no mistakes at all). On some tracks, I even have issues beating Semi Pro.
How was your race from 9th on the grid?
My workthread - [www.grandprixgames.org]
Full of classic F1/non-F1 track layouts
My blog about F1 performance analysis - [thef1formbook.wordpress.com]
Glad to see that there are new members who really enjoy the game as a true racing simulation, after playing F1 from Codies! 
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Atticus. Wrote:
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> Good to see you are happy with the game and I
> pretty much agree with your sentiment.
>
> As for your performance, it depends whether you
> use GPxPatch and check the Car power team
> dependent box on the GPxSet tab - if you do,
> you're racing with the actual Minardi power and
> grip, which is not that much, so it lifts up your
> performance, but if you don't, you're racing with
> a sort of player car power and grip, which - I
> believe - is up there with the fastest cars
> anyway, so, naturally, that brings that 9th place
> a bit more into context.
>
> But in any case, 9th place is pretty good against
> a Pro AI anyway! I have tons of experience with
> this game and even I can't beat the AI on Ace on a
> lot of tracks on one lap (even less so during a
> race distance, because it requires so much mental
> effort to make no mistakes at all). On some
> tracks, I even have issues beating Semi Pro.
>
> How was your race from 9th on the grid?
Well I made two mistakes during the race, which was 11 laps. I ran wide at Parabolica and lost a little time through Ascari Variante. I ended up dropping to 16th and fighting back up to 10th.
It was also very interesting to see how the AI behave and actually defend and attack, and I love it. It's also nice to see the AI retiring from various issues (damage from a mistake or car failures).
As for GPxPatch, if the performance you speak of is what it was really like in 2001, then I'd love to have it! Also, I'd like to get ahold of the real skins from 2001 (the Marlboro Ferrari and Benson Hodges, for example), just to make it a bit more "immersive" I suppose.
Thanks for the props from everyone.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/20/2015 10:22PM by Hart.
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> Good to see you are happy with the game and I
> pretty much agree with your sentiment.
>
> As for your performance, it depends whether you
> use GPxPatch and check the Car power team
> dependent box on the GPxSet tab - if you do,
> you're racing with the actual Minardi power and
> grip, which is not that much, so it lifts up your
> performance, but if you don't, you're racing with
> a sort of player car power and grip, which - I
> believe - is up there with the fastest cars
> anyway, so, naturally, that brings that 9th place
> a bit more into context.
>
> But in any case, 9th place is pretty good against
> a Pro AI anyway! I have tons of experience with
> this game and even I can't beat the AI on Ace on a
> lot of tracks on one lap (even less so during a
> race distance, because it requires so much mental
> effort to make no mistakes at all). On some
> tracks, I even have issues beating Semi Pro.
>
> How was your race from 9th on the grid?
Well I made two mistakes during the race, which was 11 laps. I ran wide at Parabolica and lost a little time through Ascari Variante. I ended up dropping to 16th and fighting back up to 10th.
It was also very interesting to see how the AI behave and actually defend and attack, and I love it. It's also nice to see the AI retiring from various issues (damage from a mistake or car failures).
As for GPxPatch, if the performance you speak of is what it was really like in 2001, then I'd love to have it! Also, I'd like to get ahold of the real skins from 2001 (the Marlboro Ferrari and Benson Hodges, for example), just to make it a bit more "immersive" I suppose.
Thanks for the props from everyone.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/20/2015 10:22PM by Hart.
There is a 2001 mod work in progress, I believe, although you may already find the cars somewhere already - I don't actually know, but someone might help you out there.
For GPxPatch, you just have to download it from here: [rsdi.home.xs4all.nl] And find the checkbox I mentioned above. (And run the game from there, obviously.) You might want to turn other features, such as Fix pit stop bug on (which will fix a bug where you may get stuck in the pits during a race) and certain panels, like Lo2k's 'blue panel' off, etc. You can do a lot of things with it, e. g. install certain custom tracks you would be unable to do so otherwise (see 'magic data', just be sure to start the game from GPxPatch if you want the changes to take effect. GPxPatch is real-time, so if you wish to play the game without it, you can find the game in the state you left it by starting it from GP4.exe. I, and I think the whole community recommends using the utility though, because, most of all, the game crashes way less frequently, when you use it.
Happy racing!
My workthread - [www.grandprixgames.org]
Full of classic F1/non-F1 track layouts
My blog about F1 performance analysis - [thef1formbook.wordpress.com]
For GPxPatch, you just have to download it from here: [rsdi.home.xs4all.nl] And find the checkbox I mentioned above. (And run the game from there, obviously.) You might want to turn other features, such as Fix pit stop bug on (which will fix a bug where you may get stuck in the pits during a race) and certain panels, like Lo2k's 'blue panel' off, etc. You can do a lot of things with it, e. g. install certain custom tracks you would be unable to do so otherwise (see 'magic data'
, just be sure to start the game from GPxPatch if you want the changes to take effect. GPxPatch is real-time, so if you wish to play the game without it, you can find the game in the state you left it by starting it from GP4.exe. I, and I think the whole community recommends using the utility though, because, most of all, the game crashes way less frequently, when you use it.Happy racing!
My workthread - [www.grandprixgames.org]
Full of classic F1/non-F1 track layouts
My blog about F1 performance analysis - [thef1formbook.wordpress.com]
Atticus. Wrote:
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> There is a 2001 mod work in progress, I believe,
> although you may already find the cars somewhere
> already - I don't actually know, but someone might
> help you out there.
>
> For GPxPatch, you just have to download it from
> here:
> [rsdi.home.xs4all.nl]
> And find the checkbox I mentioned above. (And run
> the game from there, obviously.) You might want to
> turn other features, such as Fix pit stop bug on
> (which will fix a bug where you may get stuck in
> the pits during a race) and certain panels, like
> Lo2k's 'blue panel' off, etc. You can do a lot of
> things with it, e. g. install certain custom
> tracks you would be unable to do so otherwise (see
> 'magic data', just be sure to start the game from
> GPxPatch if you want the changes to take effect.
> GPxPatch is real-time, so if you wish to play the
> game without it, you can find the game in the
> state you left it by starting it from GP4.exe. I,
> and I think the whole community recommends using
> the utility though, because, most of all, the game
> crashes way less frequently, when you use it.
>
> Happy racing!
Is there a performance file I need to get the real 2001 feeling of the cars? I can tell the car has less power than when I was using the original game, but it seems to have the same amount of downforce and grip levels (I'm in a Minardi).
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> There is a 2001 mod work in progress, I believe,
> although you may already find the cars somewhere
> already - I don't actually know, but someone might
> help you out there.
>
> For GPxPatch, you just have to download it from
> here:
> [rsdi.home.xs4all.nl]
> And find the checkbox I mentioned above. (And run
> the game from there, obviously.) You might want to
> turn other features, such as Fix pit stop bug on
> (which will fix a bug where you may get stuck in
> the pits during a race) and certain panels, like
> Lo2k's 'blue panel' off, etc. You can do a lot of
> things with it, e. g. install certain custom
> tracks you would be unable to do so otherwise (see
> 'magic data'
, just be sure to start the game from> GPxPatch if you want the changes to take effect.
> GPxPatch is real-time, so if you wish to play the
> game without it, you can find the game in the
> state you left it by starting it from GP4.exe. I,
> and I think the whole community recommends using
> the utility though, because, most of all, the game
> crashes way less frequently, when you use it.
>
> Happy racing!
Is there a performance file I need to get the real 2001 feeling of the cars? I can tell the car has less power than when I was using the original game, but it seems to have the same amount of downforce and grip levels (I'm in a Minardi).
A lap time of 1:25:XXX min. in Monza is quite slow. I remember driving a 1:17:8XX or something around that there. That was an amazing lap, only possible by a car power value of 1304 in the performance file. 
If you will feel comfortable with it and wish for greater realism, try using cockpit view - it's a different world entirely and one can suddenly understand the term 'blind corner.'
My workthread - [www.grandprixgames.org]
Full of classic F1/non-F1 track layouts
My blog about F1 performance analysis - [thef1formbook.wordpress.com]
My workthread - [www.grandprixgames.org]
Full of classic F1/non-F1 track layouts
My blog about F1 performance analysis - [thef1formbook.wordpress.com]
Atticus. Wrote:
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> If you will feel comfortable with it and wish for
> greater realism, try using cockpit view - it's a
> different world entirely and one can suddenly
> understand the term 'blind corner.'
I'll try using it when I'm more comfortable with the game.
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> If you will feel comfortable with it and wish for
> greater realism, try using cockpit view - it's a
> different world entirely and one can suddenly
> understand the term 'blind corner.'
I'll try using it when I'm more comfortable with the game.
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