The 1955 F1 Mod For Grand Prix Legends Is Released

[Clive Loynes]

I would predict that many people are doing plenty of practice with these cars, but when we get into the heat of battle in real races there are going to be a host of rear end shunt incidents for the moderators.

Agreed.

You dare not follow directly behind anyone into the braking zone because you don't know what state his brakes are in!  He may back off much earlier than you expect.

Monza10k seems fun for these cars but I'm yet to do two consecutive laps of Monaco.  No brakes at the gasworks. 

[FullMetalGasket]

Lookup 'reverse entry' on youtube 

[Clive Loynes]

Do Groundhog races have a password?

[EvilClive]

As far as I know Jani does not use a password for his groundhog races, and as it looks like he has got an open series up and running I am going to shelve the BREASTS option for the moment and support the Groundhog races.

[Clive Loynes]

As far as I know Jani does not use a password for his groundhog races, and as it looks like he has got an open series up and running I am going to shelve the BREASTS option for the moment and support the Groundhog races.

Me too!

I finished my first proper race (Monaco) with all the original wheels on the car!  A lap down but I did finish!  Naturally, I was stone blind motherless last but I reached the end and didn't cause anyone else too much trouble.

The "fadeometer" changed from green to red on lap one and never looked back so I did 19 laps with no brakes.

I can also testify that red cars are a lot easier to spot in the mirrors than any other colour!  Twice I pulled over to let a red car past and a green one shot through ahead of it!

Indy should be a tad easier.  I hope!   

[Clive Loynes]

I'm a tad rusty on the GPL diff adjustment but I've tried everything from 30/30 to 85/85 and they all feel the same!   

[Cookie]

Clive the ramp angles say nothing without the clutches...
For me only the locking percentage counts!
You can find it shown in the setup manager, the tighter the corners the less lock is needed.

[maddog]

Video highlights of 1st Groundhog race :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAEjp0jpOM   

[Clive Loynes]

Please ignor this, I'm trying to figure out how to get the track files to my brother as SRMZ seem to have gone to sleep on him.


www.planet-venom.co.uk/gpl/GPL55/aintree_full_v2.zip

www.planet-venom.co.uk/gpl/GPL55/GPL_Buenos Aires 1955 n. 2_v1.00.zip


https://www.planet-venom.co.uk/gpl/GPL55/monza10k_v1full.zip

https://www.planet-venom.co.uk/gpl/GPL55/spa67.zip

[Clive Loynes]

Same old GPL.   

Looks like I shall have to uninstall and start again.  After trying to switch off the 60fps patch to join a server it has reverted to its original problem of not being able to run the 55mod.

With everything set on 55, it still starts the 67 original, if anything.  Usually it just states that there is a GEM Error and I have to force a shutdown.

When I tried to reinstall GEM it appeared that GPL.exe had vanished.

Not a happy lad at the minute!

[Clive Loynes]

It looks as though my excursion into 1955, well the second one, might be shorter than planned.

Having uninstalled everything I now can't get the thing to install itself properly.  When trying to launch GPL for the first time it hangs at the Papyrus window.  Same thing happens when I try to install GPL from the disc but the disc works ok on another pc.

[Clive Loynes]

GPL once again took me to the very edge of declaring that I would never look at another racing sim ever again, before it suddenly started to work!


All I need now is for someone to tell me why my otherwise perfectly reliable sound system shuts down in the middle of GPL sessions?

It did it on the last lap on my race last week and has just done it again when practicing off-line.  Last week was 60fps and this week I have not yet been brave enough to try that. 

Oh, and lst week was Monaco and this week was Indianapolis.

[Billy Nobrakes]

Clive - if you can fix all of that & work out how to make the 55 cars brakes work after a couple of dabs on the pedal do let me know.

[miner2049er]

There is an issue where sounds can change if you go off track that I used to have but I think there was a fix for it.

Have a look under Sound in this thread
http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=3714

[Clive Loynes]

Clive - if you can fix all of that & work out how to make the 55 cars brakes work after a couple of dabs on the pedal do let me know.

Everything is working but it's a bugger trying to drive with all my fingers crossed!

As for the big issue of slowing down for the corners, you just have to rewrite your concept of brakes!  LOL

I have even followed Evil's advice and started to set gear ratios for their retardation effect rather than any consideration of acceleration.   

Tomorrow night's Groundhog race is Indianapolis (just turning left ) and the brakes will only be called upon to avoid any stray cars.  So not the same issue as Monaco, which was insane!

I have also managed to do some laps of Buenos Aires and figured out a regime of "lift and coast" that leaves me with brakes at the two main slowing down points.

I am convinced that the advice regarding the technique of chucking it sideways to scrub off speed is absolutely spot on,.......................if I could only just fathom out a setup that lets the darn thing do it!!!!