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Hi guys. I was driving couple dozen laps on spa in GTL and I found out that most of AIs ran out of fuel. Do AI refuel or am I only one who haves to do that?

Hello folks,

I'm so glad there's an active forum for that wonderful game Papyrus once made. Hopefully there's are a lot of experienced and helpful GPL-drivers visiting here. I do not have actual "problems", my game is running good and well (at least from my quite short experience). More like be kind to update an "oldtimer" that raised from the grave . You have to excuse a kind of long posting but I'm a little excited to be able to adress a lot of experienced drivers. A couple of quests below. I do not expect anyone answering them all but feel free to answer some of it if you have an opnion about it.

Short presentation: Back in 1967 I was 12 and me and my best friend was obcessed with the F1 Championship. In the 90ties, when GPL was released I bought it at once. Never been much of a gamer or sim-racer before but that product was something I had to have. Bought a wheel and was hooked. As anyone who tried knows it was extreme hard to learn decent drivning but when it started to loosen up it was even more fun with such a challenge. I used it for a year or so when other thing's interupted my GPL habit.

A jump to this winter and suddenly I had all possiblities to use a spare computer in a separate room. GPL came to my mind again. Scanned the Internet and it was for sure a lot to read about my old game. Almost too much to get in to. Anyway, I found the all-in-one installer, bought a new wheel and was ready to go. Now I'm more hooked than ever .

First to mention is those fantastic MODs that makes this fantasic sim updated and developed in so many ways. I've been running for some months now. I'm starting to get better as a driver and more "concerned" than in the 90ties. It's a big part of this games greatness that you're able to develop over a long time. I'm not satisfied. I will get better and it's fun and interesting to find out how.


Anyway, to start with the techs of my set-up as some might matter:

Hardware:
Win XP Pro Sp3
Celeron® CPU 2.93 GHz / 1,46 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce FX5200 PCI
Gina sound card
Logitech G25 Wheel

Q: Any comments on that? A spare computer but still far better than the GPL was programmed for and it seems to run well.

Software:
GEM+ 2.5.32
GPL 1.2.0.2

Q: Am I right? Is this the latest possible sofware to run the game?

Found the GPL-patch yesterday in this forum and installed it. Well done!

Personal skill:
No "helpers" and "realistic" setting. At the moment I run Pro-Short races against 19 AIs. In that crew my rank is about 10. Right now very hard to keep up with the next driver without an "accident" . To run on-line sounds just great but I think I'll stick with the AI's for a while. It's amusing enough at the moment and I wonder if it's possible to cross the line before Mr Clark?


So, here's some topics of my interest at the moment. Problably I can try to search for answers in thousands of web-pages but it's sometimes a bit confusing. My prefered method is to ask "mentors" what I still wondering about. Most of the members here are probably motivated by their long GPL-use and I more or less a "beginner". Thank's in advance to anyone who take some time to bother. Give respond on any of the subjects below:

1. Add-ons

Lot's of those to download but I prefer to install with control. I do not want to change to worse and have to re-install everything. I have questions about two of them:

1a. The 60 fps option.

At the moment I try to develop my driving technique and as I mentioned only against the AI's. Well aware of how sweet it would be with fast framerate I hestitate as this add-on seems to somehow corrupt the AI's and I need them alert. So my choice has been NOT to install. I've seen some notes about "running quite well with the 67 season but not that well with the 69ers and Sportscars". I focus on the 67 season but like to try out the other two as well.

Q1: Considering my point of view, is it correct to avoid to install that one at the moment?
Q2: Guess that no one heard about any newer version of the 60 fps add-on that don't affect any AI performance in the near future?
Q3: When you switch to 60 fps is that an immediate guarantee to lower your lap times?
Q3: Seems like many on-line racers uses 60 fps. Do standard fps drivers compete in the same races? If so: without chance?

2. The GPLshift+ drivers

I can use everything on my G25 in GPL. Not the 6 gear option but as I understand it GPL do not support anything except up and down shift, so I've adpated the gear on the wheel to that. I'm not quite sure what this install would do better that the original Logitech driver so I have not installed it.


Q: Do you recommend me to install it? If so, what will be better?


2. The other car sets

I focus on the 67 season and start to feel "in control" at speed with my Lotus (it was my automatic choice the first day as it was my favorite team back in 67). As long as that car set and tracks are in order I'm more than happy.

When re-installing I first had to check out all of those new MOD car-sets. I decided to install two of them, the F1 1969 and the Sportscars. The 1969 season is also involved in the child hood fascination and so was the Mirage found in the Sportscar set. Those two was enough for me.

So far I'm most "serious" with the 1967 season and only amused to take a ride in some of the othe twos once in a while. BTW: Made a trip around Targa Florio and must have been close to make it around (you cannot tell afterwards where you went off in that track!) . Amazed of the views and to run back in time and drive around Sicilia in the late 60ties.

My questions about those car sets has to do with performance and driving techniques. It might be my lack of skill to handle them but they seem a bit more unbalanced than the 67 I'm used to.

Q1: Is the GPL racing engine more or less optimized to the 67 cars and not that sensitive for the others?

I suspect I'm just frustrated due to inability to handle them correctly so if the answer was no:

Q2: The main an big differences in driving the 69 cars with downforce? Used to drive without the downforce it sometimes seems like I cannot touch the wheel or brakes without a "wobble" the car?

Q3: The sportscars seems somewhat "unbalanced" as well. So are this just a limitation of an alternate car in a race engine made for another or is it just a matter of training to control them in high speed? If not, what is the big dirrerence in driving techniqe?

Q3: The 67 carset differs, like the Lotus is much faster than the BRM and so on. What can be said about the cars within the 69 and Sportscar seasons? Do some cars not compete so well (but are easy to drive)?

(My very small experience so far tells me that the Porsche is far more easy to drive than my favorite Mirage)

Q4: A last one: Noticed a 69 cars EXTRA MOD. Is it just more cars alterations, or does it affect the actual driving?


Guess I have to calm down and hope for some usefuls answers. I've already lost some unpatient reader for sure, but still I hope I can turn to this forum with other questions in the future. At first I couldn't find any active ones but now I'm here. I hope I can get better and later on try the online games as well. See yo there!

All my best

Micke of Sweden

I use a G27 wheel in all of my racing games on a PC. I have always managed, after the initial adjusting to a new game, to get the wheel set as I like it.
In GPL I am not so successful; even after trying different set ups posted on various forums. I am new to GPL and think it is a terrific sim' and have enjoyed feeling my way in the game...downloaded half a dozen tracks and they work great. One of the tracks I downloaded was Castlecoombe...it is not too far from where I live. It was a nightmare to drive; much worse than the others and so I concentrated on mastering it. My G27 was behaving very strangely; I kept losing any force feed back in the center of the wheel travel and the back end sliding out etc. Eventually with the addition of GEM+ and the Logitech software, I got so that I could drive the car ok round the track. I then took every car round the track and all of them drove ok. I drive with no assists at all except (while I am feeling my way around) the damage mode which is set at non. I have been playing the game for a few days now with no problems, until today (at Monza) when all the problems reappeared. Tried other tracks and just as bad.

Here are my settings that worked for a while! Logitech Software: Overall effects. Strength 107%.
" " Spring 107%.
" " Damper 107%.
Steering wheel Rot' 600 degrees.
Allow game to adjust settings (YES)
GEM+ settings: Enable Hack.
Enable FFB.
Latency .013.
Damping 24.
Force 103.
I hope someone can come up with the answer; I am not the worlds greatest PC boffin and I am lost for ideas.
A big thank you in advance for any help.

Hi all,

I'm in the process of transferring to running GPL on the laptop rather than on my 15 year old dinosaur PC, in the hope of getting some extra eye candy, although GPL still runs really well on the old PC, which I'm still confused about considering it's age! However, I figured with everything four times the size and speed of my old PC GPL should be able to run even more smooth on the laptop.

I started with a clean sheet of paper, so rather than copying over my PC GPL install, I used the original GPL disc combined with the GPLPS all in one installer. I got it to work in one go which was great, but performance was rather lacking. It wasn't poor, but still it didn't run as wel as on my old PC. I proceded to install the V2 rasters but even after fiddling with the settings I can't get any more performance out of them (OpenGL or D3D), although I'm glad I've gotten rid of the menu distortion (old PC runs on D3D V1).

I'm unsure what more I can do to increase the performance. I find it mindboggling that GPL runs better on my old PC than on my new laptop, so I figured there must be something I overlooked, as I expected much better performance from my laptop.

Specs:

Laptop ASUS X73E
Windows 7 service pack 1
Physical Memory 4008 MB
Graphics Memory 1696 MB
Processor Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor speed 2294 MHz
Graphics Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000

PC: (Can't remember all details)

Windows XP service pack 3
Graphics Memory 512 MB
Processor AMD Athlon 64
Processor speed 1200 MHz
Graphics card nVidia Geforce 5200 FX

Om my old PC I can run Monaco Rocks with 36 fps all round, troubles only start when there are more than 3 or 4 cars in view. On my laptop I run the same track with 31 fps down the front stretch, then 36 fps all the way down to the tunnel, where fps drops to 24 fps untill I've passed the chicane. When I start a race from the back of the grid I get 11 fps.

What can I do to increase performance?

Tommie.

I knew it would be a bad idea to play Diablo III all night on the release date. I just had a break from it and jumped into GPL for a quick practice in the '69Xs, and I started wondering why I wasn't dual-wielding my swords in the cockpit.

I think I need to go to bed.....

Today been racing around the great GPL Sebring 67 track,with the equally great
GPL Sportscar Mod.It is really a lot of fun,so thought
I would share some history on Sebring races . . .