How can I get Grand Prix 2 Working on XP?

I've followed this tutorial fully......

[www.gprix2.com]

I click on the modified setup to do the sound card thing but all I get is a black screen with set up sound card and stuff and it totally freezes

You could just use Grand prix 4, its basically the same game

:rolleyes:

Have you tried such programs as DOSBox?



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whats to roll your eyes over? Thought this was the other games forum.

Its usually a sound issue, do a google for VDS sound, it sorts dos games' problems in XP.

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I'm guessing its at me qwerty

GP2 doesnt work properly with DOSBOx, when i tried i got a huge PO :|

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Ahh right

Can't play gp4....its all a bit numb, gp3 is far better! :D

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I sorta got it working............using a windpws 98 bootdisk and booting into that mode from my machine.........however no sound. I do have GP3 and GP4 But not my own machine just now as it's gettin repaired so I am looking for........a temporary solution as to speak.

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Date: March 13, 2005 07:29PM

whats to roll your eyes over?

The comment which on other forums would be described as a trolling comment.

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Sometimes is nice to take a look at gp2 to be back on time. Unhappily with no sound at all, but the graphics are all fine, anyway.
Of course I'll not bother myself trying to solve it, now I have gp3 and gp4 working fine. And to tell the truth, I also believe gp2, 3 and 4 are all the same game... the difference is the technology used.

Mneh, seemed in good humour from matt to me...ahh wull!

They are essentially the same in any case, but gp3 is the best im afraid :p

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Really interesting all this "its the same thing" stuff, and then you look at F1 2001, F1 2002, F1C which are all exactly the same physics engine and graphics engine with a few tweaks, a dreadfull bunch of cars (in F1Cs case they didnt even make them! they got someone else to do them!) and the tracks ported over

If GP4 is GP2.5 then surely F1C is simply F1 2001.00005

My point? Everythings relative. GPL and the NR series used the same graphics and physics engine for quite awhile without much change. Actually i cant really think of a racing series where they have changed much from game to game.

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DaveEllis Wrote:
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> Really interesting all this "its the same thing"
> stuff, and then you look at F1 2001, F1 2002, F1C
> which are all exactly the same physics engine and
> graphics engine with a few tweaks, a dreadfull
> bunch of cars (in F1Cs case they didnt even make
> them! they got someone else to do them!) and the
> tracks ported over
>
> If GP4 is GP2.5 then surely F1C is simply F1
> 2001.00005
>
> My point? Everythings relative. GPL and the NR
> series used the same graphics and physics engine
> for quite awhile without much change. Actually i
> cant really think of a racing series where they
> have changed much from game to game.


i was looking at some NR2002 screens the other day, and i swear if i had not have known it was NR2002 i would have thought it NR2003

Personally, I think GP4 in particular feels completely differently to GP3. I made my own setups for each, and in GP3 it feels like the diff is completely locked - put the power down, and it just sails from the apex towards the outside. GP4 looks more realistic, even perfect in replays, if you get it right. It just feels right.

Looking back at games, GP4 > GP3, GP3 > GP2, they feel so dated, even if you take the graphics comparison away, it just feels so wrong.

Hmm, wasnt really looking to go into a full blown discussion over it dave, can't be arsed to be honest

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Then dont reply - clearly judging by tae fact i got 2 serious replies that others do have an opinion on it.

i was looking at some NR2002 screens the other day, and i swear if i had not have known it was NR2002 i would have thought it NR2003

The engines pretty much exactly the same. Only car reflections, pit crews and animated track side objects have changed i think

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"Actually i cant really think of a racing series where they have changed much from game to game."

Playstation:

Formula 1 97 > Formula 1 98 > Formula One 99.

tehe we always have a discussion like this every year, I've recently tried playing F1C again, after about 6-7 months of playing just GPL and GTP tbh I just didn't like either of em anymore hehe I find I enjoy GTP and GPL a hell of alot more than the modern day F1 games now I'll give R-Factor a chance when it comes out :P GTR hmmmm, tbh I just play GTP now, don't really have any need for GTR, I'll probably wait for a bit, wait for the price to come down for GTR and buy it then

Anyway reason the PO is so bad in DosBOX is due to the fact that its been slowed down like buggery, cause the faster PC's and old DOS games without FPS limiters don't mix well sure if you find a way to just adjust the speed limit of DosBOX then it should be fine!


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2005 03:02PM by Ianwoollam.

Which changed developers during the series so it was pretty much started from scratch every time

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Same Ian - once you're into GPL and NR2003 and it's mods, I find it very hard to go back to modern F1 sims.

I fancied a blast at GP4 on the Melbourne weekend, but the urge disappeared very quickly, and the only run it's had in the past 4-6 months is when I was testing how much my new graphics card could push it.