fongu's thread
Posted by fongu
Hi Guys,
Sorry for not being able to respond sooner. Sadly I don't have an answer to the crashing. All I can suggest is make sure your GPXPatch settings uses all CPU's and your verbosity is set to high.
GP4 notoriously has a unstable graphics engine, and it's not really surprising that some of this content, which is pushing the boundaries of what GP4 is capable of (for example, I found a way to make my Williams exceed the car polygon limit), running higher and higher resolution textures all that begins to take its toll on some machines and cause regular CTDs. So that's why I maintained the basic version, to try and ease the older machines and make things much less complicated, and hopefully run more stably. Personally, I don't get any issues running the GP2 variant, I'm not sure if you get the same results.
Sorry for not being able to respond sooner. Sadly I don't have an answer to the crashing. All I can suggest is make sure your GPXPatch settings uses all CPU's and your verbosity is set to high.
GP4 notoriously has a unstable graphics engine, and it's not really surprising that some of this content, which is pushing the boundaries of what GP4 is capable of (for example, I found a way to make my Williams exceed the car polygon limit), running higher and higher resolution textures all that begins to take its toll on some machines and cause regular CTDs. So that's why I maintained the basic version, to try and ease the older machines and make things much less complicated, and hopefully run more stably. Personally, I don't get any issues running the GP2 variant, I'm not sure if you get the same results.
In other news, another bumper release of helmets has been uploaded, which include these:
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To see previews of all the new helmets, check out my blog here: https://fongugp4.blogspot.com
To see previews of all the new helmets, check out my blog here: https://fongugp4.blogspot.com
rracunis Wrote:
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> I found a way to make my Williams exceed the car
> polygon limit
>
> This is excellent news is it possible to share
> which is the way?
Let me start by saying don't get your hopes up just yet.
Basically the polygon limit is per scene. In GP4Builder it's possible to add multiple scenes. For any additional scene (and you can add multiple scenes), from what I can work out, there is no naming convention you have to stick to. In theory, that allows many many more polygons to be added to the cars. So there's great potential.
But now the bad news.
Anything added to these additional scenes fly off when you damage the car (as well as staying on the car) - that's not too bad, we have that issue with anything assigned to the z_cockpit_insert object already, but these things do alter how the damaged pieces bounce.
The main issue however is that any objects in these additional scenes flicker to black (much like with known mapping issues when it's mapped outsided the UV square). Sadly, I don't have a solution for this, and neither to some of the guys I've shared this with previously.
For the Williams (the one in the mod, not the single car released version), I'm not much over the limit, so I'm able to hide those objects mostly behind the nose, so you won't really notice the flickering unless you knock off the nose.
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> I found a way to make my Williams exceed the car
> polygon limit
>
> This is excellent news is it possible to share
> which is the way?
Let me start by saying don't get your hopes up just yet.
Basically the polygon limit is per scene. In GP4Builder it's possible to add multiple scenes. For any additional scene (and you can add multiple scenes), from what I can work out, there is no naming convention you have to stick to. In theory, that allows many many more polygons to be added to the cars. So there's great potential.
But now the bad news.
Anything added to these additional scenes fly off when you damage the car (as well as staying on the car) - that's not too bad, we have that issue with anything assigned to the z_cockpit_insert object already, but these things do alter how the damaged pieces bounce.
The main issue however is that any objects in these additional scenes flicker to black (much like with known mapping issues when it's mapped outsided the UV square). Sadly, I don't have a solution for this, and neither to some of the guys I've shared this with previously.
For the Williams (the one in the mod, not the single car released version), I'm not much over the limit, so I'm able to hide those objects mostly behind the nose, so you won't really notice the flickering unless you knock off the nose.
This is excellent quality tbh. But I do get the same error message as mentioned 2 pages ago (can't see where to swap directx), and when I hit cancel and go into the game, the track texture is black. Not 'game breaking' but I don't understand what's gone wrong. Added all the update packs too (1, 2, 3 & Mod 1994 update 3). Any ideas?
A Scotsman in Indonesia. A fan of the Far East & all their drivers & an advocate of women in motorsport / GPGNC - S3: Team Philippines, S4/S5: Team Japan, S6: Team Indonesia (S6 runner-up)
A Scotsman in Indonesia. A fan of the Far East & all their drivers & an advocate of women in motorsport / GPGNC - S3: Team Philippines, S4/S5: Team Japan, S6: Team Indonesia (S6 runner-up)
SakuMiku Wrote:
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> This is excellent quality tbh. But I do get the
> same error message as mentioned 2 pages ago (can't
> see where to swap directx), and when I hit cancel
> and go into the game, the track texture is black.
> Not 'game breaking' but I don't understand what's
> gone wrong. Added all the update packs too (1, 2,
> 3 & Mod 1994 update 3). Any ideas?
Sorry for the late reply, but delete the Data\DirectX folder - that should do it.
I've been working away at some more 1994 content recently, here's one of the cars I've been working on:
There's much more about my thoughts on the 1994 Benetton, some thoughts into my creative process and many more screenshots, check out my blog post about it:
https://fongugp4.blogspot.com
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> This is excellent quality tbh. But I do get the
> same error message as mentioned 2 pages ago (can't
> see where to swap directx), and when I hit cancel
> and go into the game, the track texture is black.
> Not 'game breaking' but I don't understand what's
> gone wrong. Added all the update packs too (1, 2,
> 3 & Mod 1994 update 3). Any ideas?
Sorry for the late reply, but delete the Data\DirectX folder - that should do it.
I've been working away at some more 1994 content recently, here's one of the cars I've been working on:
There's much more about my thoughts on the 1994 Benetton, some thoughts into my creative process and many more screenshots, check out my blog post about it:
https://fongugp4.blogspot.com
your blogspot is always a pleasure to read and the Benetton is outstanding, kev 
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