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Re: Potato PC too weak for mods, need help building a basic one - 3 months ago
Installing SDI's final version of GPxPatch is definitely your first step. Get it here: As for a set of PFs for 2024, I do have some but they wouldn't be much use to you because they weren't built to work well with the default circuits, so I suggest you take a look in Gitanes thread: For the 2024 cars themselves, Fongu maintains a page for those here: Also, if tby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Potato PC too weak for mods, need help building a basic one - 3 months ago
blueoris Wrote: ----------------------------------------------------- ... 1. How do I build a DNAMES.NAM file? Lots of ways to do what you want (usually without bothering with a DNAMES.NAM at all), but the first question is, are you loading the game by running the GP4.exe file or are you using GPxPatch? GPxPatch (which won't slow your PC in the slightest) is the preferred method becaby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
Hi Andy. I missed your post just before the one I made. (I'm not exactly firing on all cylinders right now. Nothing new there these days, but today is especially bad!) Lots of very valuable (and interesting) information in this thread from you that I've never seen before. Thanks. It's high time we had a useful Linux discussion here on the forum and when I get a few more coffeby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
Screen config in KDE: I use f1graphics.cfg* to get the game to run in a Window, then I use the button on the title bar to create two KDE windows application rules. The first, removes the title bar and border from the game and the second sets the initial position. I close the game and from then on, it starts how I want it to. (*By the way, f1graphics.cfg doesn't have to use standard resoby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: GP4 CTD - 4 months ago
Doesn't help me to help you I'm afraid, but maybe someone else with a similar set up will have an idea.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
A quick update that you might find interesting: Just out of interest I loaded HTop and checked my GP4 CPU load there (I was talking about the in game 'O' key before when I mentioned my figures). In HTop it always shows between 100.0 and 100.7%, but I don't believe it for a minute, because it never changes, whether I'm at a busy part of the track or at the beginning of aby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
"Can you remember how you configured your wine prefix?" I did nothing at all! I installed Manjaro, I installed Wine, I ran GPxPatch and played the game. (That's why I'm currently recommending it. Doesn't get easier than that!) "Are you using wine 10 stable? Arch like to have the cutting edge stuff or so I've been led to believe." Manjaro is using Wby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: GP4 CTD - 4 months ago
That's not a lot of info to go on there. The two most obvious questions though, are does this happen in all mods - and does it happen with a completely unmodified fresh installation of GP4? If the answers to both Q's is yes, it's related to your machine, your operating system or your wheel. If not, it's something in the mod (which could be one of a hundred things). Nby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
Manjaro uses Wine v10. No problems at all - so no need for PlayonLinux, Lutris or anything else. Just Wine and you're away. That immediate crashing with the Direct X error was happening to me in MX Linux, but try as I might I never did get to the bottom of it. It does seem to me that as each year passes, GP4 is gradually being left behind as Linux moves on to support the latest games aby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
Can't really help you with Ubuntu. Never used it. But, if I were in your position I'd want to know that the GP4 installation was working, so I'd install a Windows Virtualbox just to make sure the game runs on there. At least then you might have a better idea about what to do next. Before that though, while still in Ubuntu I would look at when the game crashes when I load it viaby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp4 dependencies Linux/wine/winetricks - 4 months ago
It might help to know which Linux distro you are using. Some have become increasingly difficult to make work with GP4 in recent years (eg, some of them need an intermediate package, like PlayonLinux to downgrade Wine to v8.xx first - so if you always get the error after clicking load in GPxPatch but before the GP4 screen that may well be the solution). However, I can definitely say that Manjarby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: IN CAR TRACK MAP POSITION - 4 months ago
Coordinates can be set in /gpxdata/gpxsat.ini in the section: TrackMapPosX & TrackMapPosYby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Other cars sound not audible - 4 months ago
Fadilll / gp4wonder - If you've turned up all the volumes in the game menu, it might be a good idea to take a closer look at GPxPatch screens. 1. Under the GPxPatch tab, make sure GPxSound is not de-selected. I did that once by accident and I searched everywhere else before I noticed that! 2. Click on the GPxSound tab. Those two checkboxes at the top (Enable 3D engine sounds and disablby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Multiplayer controlled AI car much faster - 5 months ago
PM sent uncle_dominique Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Noog Schreef: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > This is because the final 4.52 version of GPxPat > ch > > allows you to use CAR (not team) specific power > an > > d failure rates (as well as 'error chance' ) and > t &by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Multiplayer controlled AI car much faster - 5 months ago
gp4wonder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- <...I installed gpxpatch 4.30a selected car power team dependant under gpxset tab > , and the hostseat and lan multiplayer computer controlled cars are not pulling away like they were doing before, > so it would seem the issue is fixed at least in pr evious version of gpxpatch. Yes. Reverting to a version oby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Dash Dials in Cockpit View going off! - 5 months ago
Next time you load GPxPatch, click on the GPxInfo tab and you'll see a list of scripts being used, ie ticked (or not; not ticked) in the mod: this.ini, that.ini etc. One of those will be generating your dash dials. Double click the ini that seems to have the name most likely to be concerned with the dials ("dash" or "dash dials" usually) and a new window will open.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Multiplayer controlled AI car much faster - 5 months ago
If the other two replies fix your problem, great. However, if they don't, try choosing 'Old behaviour' in GPxPatch before you select more than one car in a session. It's what I've been doing since this 'bug' began to appear after GPxPatch 4.44 (I think it was). The bug only affects the later GPxPatch versions in multiplayer though, like 4.52, so whenby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: gp3/gp4 on virtual machine - 6 months ago
It runs just fine, but not well enough that you'd ever want to play the game there, because the graphics driver your VB uses won't be good enough. However, this driver allows you to use the Thrustmaster 458 Spider wheel with linux Worth a try, if you haven't already. Better still though, have you thought about making a small dual boot Windows partition on your hard disc? Yby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: A ramble for Excel nerds (my stillborn attempt creating a GP4 Championship Manager programme) - 1 year ago
Ajayrious Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... with things like random error chance, on some slower circuits you'l > l barely notice even a high value, and then on some faster circuits cars will fly all over the place > with a small one). An interesting observation I'll be making use of in future. Thanks.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Perfomance files - how do they work? - 1 year ago
jcgrj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Line 75 do you mean that one? No, the line directly above that one. It's a number that tells the CC cars to hold their grid positions for a certain number of sectors. If you set it to zero, they should immediately try to look for ways to overtake, but as you'll see at Spa most obviously, they won't actuaby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Perfomance files - how do they work? - 1 year ago
The causes are well understood - and there are ways to fix it for many tracks (power and physics); but not without messing up the performance in the rest of the race. Setting the 'Rail line' to zero in the MD (Line 75 IIRC) can also help with some tracks, but not others. Revisit the default 2001 game one day and you'll notice that the start line acceleration problem has alwaby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Perfomance files - how do they work? - 1 year ago
There is more than one way to adjust no of laps, but probably the most convenient is to use cmagic4_102.exe Load cmagic4_102.exe and hit the browse button on the GP4 track file line and select your track dat. Next, click the EditGP4Info button which has now come to life. That will pop up a little dialog. If "laps" is listed there, change it. If not, type laps in the left hand columby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Perfomance files - how do they work? - 1 year ago
jcgrj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >I notice that some mods ha > ve a poor race start even if cc cars are fast enou > gh in the race. It's a known problem bud. There are ways to fix it; but when you do it messes up the performance in the rest of the race. There are quite a few posts about this problem on the forum, but ultimately we have lby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Perfomance files - how do they work? - 1 year ago
It does sound like you might be on to something, but for what it's worth that 16384 figure does have a long pedigree; dating back to at least 2008, if not before - and it's confirmed in this post by SDI a few years ago.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Looking For Setup Guides for Linux - 1 year ago
I've just realized I've made a small error in the upload. It's not a big deal but the GP4.EXE has had the 4gb patch applied to it which means that if you try to apply a CSM mod to it CSM will complain that GP4.exe has been modified. However, fortunately, you'll find a GP4.exe.Backup file in the folder as well, so if you want to install a mod, you'll need to delete theby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Looking For Setup Guides for Linux - 1 year ago
So while we wait, here's what you'll need to do. Click the link, download the zip and copy the enclosed folder to wherever you want it to be. Now, normally, you would just dbl click the GPxPatch icon, but because Wine is messed up at the moment, you'll need to use the PlayonLinux instructions I posted earlier (and yes, when you get that prompt about SYSTEM or 8.5, choose 8.5,by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Looking For Setup Guides for Linux - 1 year ago
Yes, I thought it would be. But never mind. I wouldn't worry about it as it's probably easier to relax for a bit rather than finding the problem. I'm uploading the updated installation for you to try (which should work right away) but the weather here is terrible and it keeps dropping packets and backtracking more than normal. It's about 65% done though, so maybe anothby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Looking For Setup Guides for Linux - 1 year ago
Until fairly recently there was a place where anyone could download a working default GP4 installation that was already updated with the official patch, GPxPatch and the 4gb+ patch, so you could just drop the contents into a folder and play the updated (but default) game without having to do any installation or any other messing around (although you needed to install WINE first if you were a Linuby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Looking For Setup Guides for Linux - 1 year ago
That's not a Linux problem. It's something to do with the installation, but I've never seen that issue before. Here's mine. Is it the same? ; Grand Prix 4 System File - do not edit save_state_on_exit = true install_level = full minimum_allowable_version = 0 language_name = english user_nameby Noog - Grand Prix 4