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have just started to play this,BY THE GODS IS IT HARD OR WHAT! 😯
i read about the difficulty,and how fantastic the game was,but i just wasn't prepared as to just how difficult it is to play.
at the slightest provocation,the car spirals off into the crash barriers 😮 are the brakes made of cheese also 😕 any speed over 10 m.p.h it seems,and you just slide off into the shrubbery (and this is on novice mode 😆
BUT it's one hell of a driving sim/game 😀
here's a video of someone who can play it doing the nurburgring 😉
Haven't played that in ages, but remember it to be very challenging. totally unlike the pap they turn out today.. There were lots of updates on tracks and other stuff...
Very very difficult game. Could never master it properly but it was very good for the time. I was better at Viper Racing and Sports car Gt. Wonder if they'd work on my pc these days.
I used to love that game, was also a massive fan of gp2 & gp4. Graphics look worse than I remember them, you needed a good pc & graphics cards for it. I had a patch to run a ff steering wheel with it. Only ever managed to complete 1 full distance race at Silverstone on it with no driver aids- can't remember if it had any driver aids actually. Can't get the game to run on my current laptop though, it was the nuts!!
Sounds a lot like the old Indy 500 sim on my Amiga. You needed almost microscopic movements of the mouse to put the car into the banking and a fraction of a mm out would send the car into a spin. You'd achieve an almost zen like state of concentration in completing the full 500 of the oval.
I think it had auto gear change and that was your lot. But you ended up being demolished off the grid in auto mode and it took a lap to catch up to the back markers.
I loved that game.
You've got all the add ons from the gpl league, right? It's looks and sounds great once you do.
Let me know when you've gone negative! 😉
Mastering the ring is the key.
apologies for being thick,but what does that mean 😳 i will have a look at the add on's you mentioned (i need all the help i can get with this tbh 😆 it's nothing like pitstop 2 😉Let me know when you've gone negative!
OK.
bookmark this page.
[url] http://www.gpllinks.org/ [/url]
Now that will provide you with guides on patching and upgrading the game so it behaves in the best way. It is a bit of a process but it's well worth it. Let me know if you have any problems there but there is a forum for helping people, not sure how active it is now.
Going negative. The GPL league decided to create a world wide league of racers. They took all the tracks from the 1967 (I think) F1 season and agreed upon a set of times for each track based on real life laptime. They then laid a challenge down to all racers to see if they could achieve a combined time across all laps of equal to or less than the agreed baseline. Are you with me?
This created a very serious set of contenders to beat the times. It wouldn't matter if you lost a few seconds on one track, as long as you gained them elsewhere. A league table of racers was established and people could upload their times to see how good they were. The fastest people had to upload videos of their fastest time for verification.
Going faster than the agreed baseline was known as 'going negative' and trust me, it took a huge amount of effort for the very reasons you have highlighted in your original post. I might have had a bit of a little sex wee when I achieved it. I was so proud. I think I was only about 10 seconds under the baseline but it was a wonderful day. Took me months.
Any help you need, give me a shout, it was a long time ago now but I thoroughly enjoyed playing that game.
lol, I'm still on there.
not sure if this will work for you.
These are my rankings against the benchmark on the F1 series.
Track Benchmark Your time
98 99 100 101 102
Kyalami 1967 1:20.861 1:20.800
99.925%
Mexico 1967 1:50.478 1:50.384
99.915%
Monaco 1967 1:29.326 1:29.057
99.699%
Monza 1967 1:30.202 1:29.923
99.691%
Mosport Park 1967 1:23.134 1:22.783
99.578%
Nürburgring 1967 8:21.931 8:26.695
100.949%
Rouen-les-Essarts 1967 1:59.277 1:59.768
100.412%
Silverstone Circuit 1967 1:30.907 1:30.596
99.658%
Spa Francorchamps 1967 3:20.342 3:21.414
100.535%
Watkins Glen Int. 1967 1:06.912 1:06.505
99.392%
Zandvoort 1967 1:26.848 1:26.759
99.898%
ah i see.thanks a lot samurai 😀
i think i will leave trying to go negative for a while (not that i could anyway 😆
very tough game.
take a look at r-factor too.