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Thanks Tom for all your help getting me started...great drive podium---and all who competed. Nice first year...keep up your fine work Sir...

GP4CC Season 1 Review added on the previous page.

In other news, the GP4 Central 2014 CSM Carset and 2014 Laptop Edition are coming along nicely...

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Hi-res cars at a nice low PO



Pitboard and defpanel as usual, new HUD



Updated cockpits




And of course, new performance, physics and (enormous!) torque from the new V6 Turbos!

Coming Soon!

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

Wow that is beautiful Tom!

May I ask...When you said Hi-res cars at a nice low PO
What spec laptop is considered capable?

I have an older Acer Aspire dual core pentium 2.3ghz
3GB ram But video is onboard Intel 4 series chipset
with only 64mb

As I said your 2013 runs fine on low settings/no mirrors etc
but I am thinking of getting something better
& wondered what you ...or others..thinks is a suffcient laptop
without being very high cost.

Thanks for any info.

Sweet Tom... i for one dont care if the 2014 lineup looks like old tennis sneakers----we needs SOUNDS... i found a sound file for the t6's but couldnt figure out how to load it into the edit software---if you include the 6t sounds into the 14LT you will be my hero---not like 3rd didnt already do that lol = )

These days some laptops come with 2 graphics cards, an onboard one for regular use and a dedicated gfx card that is only used during games (for best battery life). From what I know, GP4 tends to struggle with this type of dual gfx card laptop (it can't see the dedicated one). There have been a few threads about it here, but I don't have a laptop to be able to test it myself unfortunately.

You want a processor that runs at > 3Ghz (doesn't matter how many cores, GP4 can only use 1 reliably). 4Gb RAM is standard these days, so that's fine. An SSD instead of an old HDD is best for quick loading times. Then it comes down to the GFX card, which other users might have some ideas about?

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

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Bakmrkr
we needs SOUNDS

Actually I'm going to disappoint you then - I'm sticking with the original sounds for now. But I will consider making an addon with Briere's V6 sounds. The lower revs do make a difference which takes some getting used to but now I find it OK.

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

Thanks Tom that info helps a lot as to what to look
for in a laptop

Interesting about the dedicated vs integrated graphics too.

Thanks

TomMK Wrote:
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> Then it comes down to the
> GFX card, which other users might have some ideas
> about?

Over here i have a Asus Geforce GTX 770 with 2gb gddr5. After testing i consider its way to much for Gp4.

What i think should do for a reasonable mod is a Geforce 740 or the 750 witch are not expensive.
AMD stuff with a R7 260x should be more than enought to play.

jcaranti Wrote:
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> Over here i have a Asus Geforce GTX 770 with 2gb
> gddr5. After testing i consider its way to much
> for Gp4.
>
> What i think should do for a reasonable mod is a
> Geforce 740 or the 750 witch are not expensive.
> AMD stuff with a R7 260x should be more than
> enought to play.

Is that your laptop or desktop jcaranti?

I left my desktop in the US & recently moved to Asia with just my laptop.
Funny but here laptops are so expensive
Also when looking I see many have very low tier gfx cards
No GTX stuff just GT720,820 etc.

I hate to buy online since here they have 40% or more import tax

Thanks for the info

Add-on v6 sounds would be great---long as it comes with a read-me, and is somewhat plug and play---good choice Tom...cant wait...

Is there a track pack for this?

The generic tracks are not compatible with this mod.

Spin like ice on them.

Or a setup pack?


I can only do 1.44 at Melbourne.

The G27 feels awful with this mod.
Can't turn the car and have to crawl to get around corners and any faster and the car spins around.

I'm not this slow.

How do you fix the tracks up to 2013 data for this mod?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2014 11:22AM by smasha.

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smasha
The generic tracks are not compatible with this mod.

Yes they are.

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smasha
The G27 feels awful with this mod.

Have you tried your wheel with an original, unmodded version of GP4? Or any other mod?

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

I used to have all the GP database mods and they all worked better.

I think this sim relies on a good setup more than any other sim.

The default setups are unplayable.

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smasha
I used to have all the GP database mods and they all worked better.

They worked better with your G27 you mean? Which mods from GP4DB specifically are working well with the G27?

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

Well I just tried the 2004 mod and I'm 20 seconds off the pace lol.

Cars feel like they're doing 30 kph.


Steering roation on 180 but car still feels like a truck.

Ok Tom you inspired me to get my sounds files and organize them into a simple "Samples" tradeout system... i have a "RB" 4,9, and 10 and all i have to do is c+p any given samples foler into the main gp4 folder and im running that engine... the only file missing is the 6t's in the normal tradeout format (sample-edit) ---if you have that i can do a "samples" folder with it and your t6 folder will be ready as an "extra"---just trying to help out---i could load it into a download format---done---let me know if you have those 100-110 type files for the t6... thanks Tom

edit...meaning the samples folder is easy to back up...and a drop and play, or go back to the orig, seemed the best way to have a t6 sound alternitive...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/2014 01:26AM by Bakmrkr.

Thanks Bakmrkr. I haven't done much with sounds before (I usually leave it as something for the user to add on if they want it) so I don't know how easy / hard it will be to put in, but I know how to create a CSM addon pack and that is super easy.

Briere has created lots of V6 Turbo samples. They're available on this site I think.

So if you get your sounds folder working just send it over and I'll create an addon pack with it .

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

Ill see what i can find ...using the sound edit is alittle harsh, so the option of a "drop into your main gp4 folder " seemed like the ticket to a common pilot to have access to the t6 sounds (if they wish) which you know are targeting your 14 mods...would be a shame not to have the option---also if i run into a problem---let me know who i might contact, instead of bugging you...lol

Tom I have another question

I have your 2013 laptop version working very well on my laptop now.
Low PO & everything very usable

But when looking at your competition I downloaded the new 2013
Silverstone track by jcaranti & drt01 that you folks used for your hotlap comp.
Very nice track but very heavy PO wise for my laptop.
Also I guess because of my lower spec laptop the track lines seem to flash/flicker a lot
I can reduce that by setting max track length to 20km in GpX but still very PO heavy

Will the new 2014 version you mention above be equally heavy or have the tracks
been tweaked for your laptop version?

Thanks again

flying Wrote:
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> But when looking at your competition I downloaded
> the new 2013
> Silverstone track by jcaranti & drt01 that you
> folks used for your hotlap comp.
> Very nice track but very heavy PO wise for my
> laptop.
> Also I guess because of my lower spec laptop the
> track lines seem to flash/flicker a lot
> I can reduce that by setting max track length to
> 20km in GpX but still very PO heavy


I still dont understand why people think that laptops are for gamming ...
Desktops are for gaming with proper specs.