A curiosity when starting GP4 on Windows 7 x64
Posted by XenonS
Hello Grand Prix fans,
I'm new on this site and very happy to see that the GPx series are well alive and lot of mods are available. I have been highly enjoying the series since the late 90s (my first on Amiga) and have played all of them, GPF1-GP2-GP3-GP4. With GP2 and GP3 I used some mods or changed the game to make some crazy car effects during races that made it the hell difficult and challenging to actually finish a race without the loss of my car because of total damage. The 'standard settings' for the game was well too quiet and the mods were able to change that quickly
After a long pause of about 10 years, I recently had some doubts about starting GP4 in Windows 7 64-bits on a laptop with an older grafic card (ATI Radeon HD 5750), but it was a total success especially because of the help in this forum:
[www.grandprixgames.org]
It worked perfectly for me, I'm able to play at 1920x1080 with a constant 30 FPS. My current game setup is: Full install + patch 9.6 + GPxPatch 4.44 (all extensions disabled, 4 cores and sound extension enabled) + GP4Tweaker to get rid of black flags during Practice races.
I have one curiosity (I don't want to call it a nuisance) however: When starting the game with (or without) GPxPatch, it takes very long to load, more than one minute. I speed things up by going in the task manager, killing the GP4.exe and then re-start the game, it loads immediately after that. Any idea what causes this, and how to get rid of it?
Rather than increasing realism, I would enjoy a mod that increases the effects of car crashes to make a race more difficult to complete, yes it's arcade I know, but I'm not a fan of realism. Is there such a mod (like in GP2) or do I need to change the car phisycs?
Thanks very much for your feedbacks !
Greetings,
XenonS
I'm new on this site and very happy to see that the GPx series are well alive and lot of mods are available. I have been highly enjoying the series since the late 90s (my first on Amiga) and have played all of them, GPF1-GP2-GP3-GP4. With GP2 and GP3 I used some mods or changed the game to make some crazy car effects during races that made it the hell difficult and challenging to actually finish a race without the loss of my car because of total damage. The 'standard settings' for the game was well too quiet and the mods were able to change that quickly
After a long pause of about 10 years, I recently had some doubts about starting GP4 in Windows 7 64-bits on a laptop with an older grafic card (ATI Radeon HD 5750), but it was a total success especially because of the help in this forum:
[www.grandprixgames.org]
It worked perfectly for me, I'm able to play at 1920x1080 with a constant 30 FPS. My current game setup is: Full install + patch 9.6 + GPxPatch 4.44 (all extensions disabled, 4 cores and sound extension enabled) + GP4Tweaker to get rid of black flags during Practice races.
I have one curiosity (I don't want to call it a nuisance) however: When starting the game with (or without) GPxPatch, it takes very long to load, more than one minute. I speed things up by going in the task manager, killing the GP4.exe and then re-start the game, it loads immediately after that. Any idea what causes this, and how to get rid of it?
Rather than increasing realism, I would enjoy a mod that increases the effects of car crashes to make a race more difficult to complete, yes it's arcade I know, but I'm not a fan of realism. Is there such a mod (like in GP2) or do I need to change the car phisycs?
Thanks very much for your feedbacks !
Greetings,
XenonS
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