Can ANYONE get a GPL car to handle worth a damn?????

I have tried and tried...... I cant find any setup files anywhere either..... U know...I realize that old 60's F1 cars w/out wings or good *** were squirrely beasts....but this is RIDICULOUS !!!!!! Im sure the game's developers were trying to duplicate the realism of the day....but this borders on being unplayable..... Personally the game's appeal is waning a bit.......... Can someone tell me where i can get a setup or two ??? Or can someone post a few here??? Im not whining ...im just sick of this crap.......

At least your driving difficulties are due to car setup and your abilities. What I did is slow the hell down when I needed to. I had to get used to the brakes etc. The other ubi soft title, SpeedBusters, on the other hand, is completely unplayable in my opinion, because of the game's controls engine, and not because of car setup and user ability.

LOL. When do they understand that this IS a "sim", not just another NFS?

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> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:26:50 GMT, > >I have tried and tried...... > >I cant find any setup files anywhere either..... > The game is not out yet. > >Personally the game's appeal is waning a bit.......... > The game is not out yet. > >Can someone tell me where i can get a setup or two ??? > The game is not out yet. > >Or can someone post a few here??? > The game is not out yet. > >Im not whining ...im just sick of this crap....... > Just delete the warez version from your drive, you'll > feel better. > -- > * rrevved at some ISP which calls itself mindspring dot com > * s.p.u.t.u.m. (unit.26) - http://www.sputum.com

-- Byron Forbes Captain of Team Lightning Bolt http://members.tripod.com/~HOSHUMUNGUS and http://www.frontiernet.net/~godsoe/bolt/home.htm

I can get it to drive decent. I am no great driver but you have to start off slow and learn what your car is doing. It is really cool once you learn to use the throttle and brake correctly. This has been my biggest learning obstacle. I started off at Monza with the typical 2 minute plus lap times because of course i wrecked but now after about 5 hours I am down to 1:34. Now I know thats not really fast but I can see improvement. This is a model of a real auto...remember you have 400 hp on tap in a 1100-1500 lb car.....try to drive a hyundai with a vette motor in it and you will get the idea. Yeah it is hard and therein comes the satisfaction when you start to get control of one of these monsters. Stick with it....this is indeed the best sim out there.

Huh? > Im not whining ...im just sick of this crap....... -- Regards, Bruce. ---------- The GP Legends Historic Motor Racing Club is located at:- http://www.netspeed.com.au/brucek/legends/

I have after some hours got the car to hold on pretty well. May not be a HOT lap but managed a 1:35 at Monza The demo cars setup is ***so don't expect to much. Drive slower for a while and be smooth on the brakes. Nigel -- Nigel of Lakewood Motorsports (Memeber of the Nascar Offline Racing Series) Nascar Coruba & Coke Chevy Hamilton New Zealand

Read the manual (duh). Mike.

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>I have tried and tried...... >I cant find any setup files anywhere either..... >U know...I realize that old 60's F1 cars w/out wings or good *** >were squirrely beasts....but this is RIDICULOUS !!!!!! >Im sure the game's developers were trying to duplicate the realism of >the day....but this borders on being unplayable..... >Personally the game's appeal is waning a bit.......... >Can someone tell me where i can get a setup or two ??? >Or can someone post a few here??? >Im not whining ...im just sick of this crap.......

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>On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:26:50 GMT, >>Im not whining ...im just sick of this crap....... >Just delete the warez version from your drive, you'll >feel better.

I have the warez version (great, I can see the SPA snipers setting up outside) and personally, I think the cars (in their default setups) handle much like those in the original demo. And I love it! In this case, waiting for changes in the final version may not be the solution (although it is always advisable). If Col. Lingus finds it difficult to handle the cars, then perhaps he should find another game. I hope the previous sentence didn't sound too elitist. Mind you, I will be buying the game the day it is released! Martin Nigel Mansell RIP!

> I have after some hours got the car to hold on pretty well. > May not be a HOT lap but managed a 1:35 at Monza > The demo cars setup is ***so don't expect to much. Drive > slower for a while and be smooth on the brakes. > Nigel Good advice, I also only have the demo.... done a 1m33 at Monza and a 1m11 at the Glen, it ain't easy, but well worth the effort. GPL is a major step forward in race car sims. I eagerly await the full version. Dave Hawnt (Jammer) UK ....."Nothing worth having comes easy!"

>> I have tried and tried...... I hear ya Lingus, but it is very possible to control these cars, it just takes a little getting used to. I consider myself a pretty big racing sim fan and it struck me the same way at first, I was like," holy crap, you've got to be kidding me..." but then I realized that a lot of it was about balancing the car, and using the throttle to control your slides around turns. Listen to the combination of your throttle and the tire squeal,, from what I've heard the 'squeal' is there to mimic the g-force feeling you would get in real life. After a while it has come to be really, really fun for me. And I'm using a cheesy joystick on top of it all... and I stay on the track pretty often ,,, ha Since this sim is intended to portray a totally different era in racing, it makes sense that it won't be like what we're used to,, and I also think it's not better than the other sims, but definitely completely different. hang in there, it'll all click sooner than you think! Raevyn

Yes, I have the warez version; yes, warez is bad and evil and causes gum disease and impure thoughts and Communism and high interest rates and bad TV reception and starvation and global warming and ... ; yes, I'm going to buy the game the day it comes out. With *that* nonsense aside (although some goober's STILL gonna preach at me, I'll bet), here are a few of my findings: I've gotten the best results by driving a few laps and checking the tire temps. The default setup seems to have too little tire pressure so the inside and outside of the tire heat up more than the middle. You'll have to make BIG camber changes, too (check the asymmetrical editing box). Also, try adding some rear bump and decreasing rear rebound a little. These few things got me around Spa at least 15 seconds faster than with the default setup. Can't remember the time right now, but it was around 3:40. Not a hot lap, I know, but my best so far. The main thing was that it made the car much more pleasant to drive and easier to learn, and the drifts were infinitely easier to induce and to control. Later y'all

> >On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:26:50 GMT, > >>Im not whining ...im just sick of this crap....... That Col. Lingus sure is a cunning linguist :)