The 1955 F1 Mod For Grand Prix Legends Is Released

[Clive Loynes]

I'll have a look at the Bodnar bit.

One other symptom of this install is that I have no information above or below the part with the image on.

Last week's, which did allow me on-line, had all sorts of stuff, albeit in a font that was so small that I couldn't read it without crashing!

[Cookie]

You have no pribluda?

It is very good for online racing and you can tweak it to your likes.

[Clive Loynes]

None of that info at present.

Is this because the present install used the Demo?

Also I appear to have the following gpl executables in my gpl folder:

gplc55.exe
gplc67.exe
gplc67c55.exe
gplc67c67.exe

Wasn't expecting the last two.  

Tried to install pribluda but it doesn't seem to do anything.

[Cookie]

gplc67c55.exe
gplc67c67.exe

Wasn't expecting the last two.  

Neither me 

Must something going very wrong...

The original gpl.exe has to be untouched in the main folder! it is the base for all the mod exes!

Try my UK exe 

Replace yours in main folder, delete all mod.exe and let GEM+ build new mod.exes

[Clive Loynes]

Your .exe produced a GEM Error to start with but is now running off-line.

However, it has reproduced both of those strange .exe files again.

[Gareth]

I joined a 36 fps server, with 60fps still checked by mistake, every time I got the flicker, I think its 8 seconds or so, my brakes re-set. I test this more, its difficult to over heat brakes in 8 seconds but I managed it , flicker and red to greed instantly.  

[Clive Loynes]

Axel's first piece of advice proved to be spot on!  Namely re-install the whole thing.

Not without trauma mind!  The pc decided that my disc was ok after all and I was able to install gpl but couldn't run it to create a driver profile.  It just hung on the Papyrus window at 640 x 480 resolution.  So I imported my profile from the previous install, having rubbed out all the pre-GEM stuff.

That let me run in '67.

However, when I tried to install the '55 mod it caused GEM to hang and gave a GEM+2 Error message. 

I eventually rebooted the pc and attempted the same things but with the wheel unplugged.

That seems to have done the trick.

I can now enjoy the '55 mod at 36fps.

Not been brave enough to try 60fps yet.  I need some fun first and Spa67 provides that in spades!   

Many thanks. 

[Clive Loynes]

   

Against all odds, I now appear to have 55gpl running Spa67 at 60fps nominally. It dips as low as 33fps whilst it tries to draw every tree in Belgium but it is running.

It appeared that to invoke the 60pfs patch without getting a GEM+2 Error I had first to run the '67 cars at 60fps. Then it allowed me to switch to the correct patch for '55. 

[Clive Loynes]

I seem to have another issue now :-(
I can't calibrate my pedals and thus I'm not sure that I'm getting full chat.
The pedals are separate (via Bodnar interface) and GPL assigns them to axes 5, 6 and 7. But GPL only allows calibration of the wheel on Axis 0 and then the pedals on 1, 2 and 3.

Any ideas?

[EvilClive]

I have no idea how your Bodnar interface works, but on my "calibration" screen there are 2 pages, with axis 5,6 &7 on page 2.

I have a conventional G25 wheel and pedals and, as you say, it only gives me the option to calibrate the pedals on 2,3,4. Axis 5,6&7 are currently greyed out, but I have no idea if they would become active under your pedal setup?

But the fact that they are there, suggests that they should be usable although I have no idea how to turn them on ( or off!)...maybe somewhere deep within the Logitech software/Sierra software there is a line or two of code?


Just looked on my laptop where I have a virgin GPL install without G25 Logitech software and there is no second page in the calibration section? so I am guessing ( OK a wild stab in the dark! ) that it is the G25 install that triggers the extra axis???

[Cookie]

Before you assign any axis in GPL you first have to calibrate all of them.

This helps me sometimes when there is something wrong in GPL 

[Clive Loynes]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!!!


Been fighting this for weeks and never noticed that second page.  Doh!

Thanks Evil.

And thanks Axel,

All a bit academic as the darn thing has stopped working with the 60fps patches again.  Works in 36fps but just gives an error message as soon as I put a tick in a box for 60fps and try to start GPL.

If I ever get it running again can I create copies of the .exe files and call them something like gplc67-60 and gplc55-60, then just run from those?  Similarly with the 36fps versions?

[Cookie]

If I ever get it running again can I create copies of the .exe files and call them something like gplc67-60 and gplc55-60, then just run from those?  Similarly with the 36fps versions?

Yes you can, as long as you keep them in the main folder

You just have to keep the file names with a max of 8 letters as in old dos version.

[Clive Loynes]

If I ever get it running again can I create copies of the .exe files and call them something like gplc67-60 and gplc55-60, then just run from those?  Similarly with the 36fps versions?

Yes you can, as long as you keep them in the main folder

You just have to keep the file names with a max of 8 letters as in old dos version.

Great!  Thanks Axel.

I shall make back up copies of the working files too, so that I can replace them when it goes dicky.

[Clive Loynes]

My cup runneth over.  

After a little black magic, and having sacrificed a squirel, GPL is running again in 60fps.

I have also turned down the hardware acceleration on the sound car in the hope that it may stop it giving up on me half way through a race.

All ready for Zandvoort on Thursday.


P.S.  It was only a grey one!