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Um...what the hell is the redline of the various cars??? I mean the
"red line" that is on the tach just keeps moving up the higher I rev
it. What is my safe limit on the various cars. The Ferrari just keeps
going past 9k.... I have no idea if this is a good thing, or a bad
thing. I checked the book and can't find any reference to it.

Also, is there any way to SLOW DOWN the competition? As soon
as a race starts they leave me at the grid. I can never catch up....
I realize they are much better than me, but at this rate I never get
a chance to practice dicing with any cars.

TIA!

What car are you driving?  I am driving the Lotus and I don't have any
problems keeping up with the other cars on the start (even with the default
setup).  Now staying on the track so that I can stay with them throughout
the race is another story.

Good Luck,

Dean

Where on earth do I find this program?????

I'm using the Ferrari GP car. The guys just dust me at the start.

That red line is the telltale -- tells you your highest rev point.

Ferrari passed 9000RPM is a good thing!  Hehe.

You want the neighbors to hear you screaming down
the straights.  That kinda sound only develops at 10,000+ RPM :)

Seriously,  I always shift at 10,400 RPMs in my Ferrari.
I just get clobbered in the straights if I don't 'wind  the baby up' :)

You must be talking AI.  I like them even though I'm running in
10thpostition or down :)

Play on VROC (it rocks!)  http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc

There are other humans that drive like you.  You will always
be able to dice with someone.

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% >No help from me on redline - would like to know myself.  On AI speed
% >look for a program called ai_tw102.exe (sorry cant find URL I downloaded
% >AITweak from) it allows setting all AI drivers to differnt levels.

% Where on earth do I find this program?????

Should be able to find it at Alison Hine's GPL web site:
The URL is http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/gpl/

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http://user.sgic.fi/~icon/ai_tweak/ai_tw102.exe/

download and place in same folder as GPL driver.ini file.  Also if you
dont have a file VBRUN300.DLL in your windows\system folder then
download it (same url) and place in the windows\system folder.
VBRUN.DLL is required to run AITW102.EXE (AI Speed Tweaker)

Don

    There's a file around on GPL pages that spreads the field a bit
better, so some cars are still just as fast, but others will be
slower....

dlong_speed_adj_coeff = 0.980000 ; value modifies dlong velocities
                                 ;(i.e. RELS) in .LP  

Change this to anything you want, the above example would set
the opponents at 98% strength. It works great and makes the game
much more interesting for us beginners.

Uwe

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EA> Also, is there any way to SLOW DOWN the competition? As soon
EA> as a race starts they leave me at the grid. I can never catch up....
EA> I realize they are much better than me, but at this rate I never get
EA> a chance to practice dicing with any cars.

1) Use SPEED TWEAK (get it at gpl.gamestats.com)
2) Alter the drivers.ini (I took the 11th - 19th driver, cut them and
   pasted "them" in front of the others) to adjust the AI

Good luck !

Also, man mailt sich...

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: Should be able to find it at Alison Hine's GPL web site:
: The URL is http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/gpl/

Alison has a link to a page I created describing the GPL Gauges under her
Help section. I got the data from Eric at Papyrus.

Hope it helps,

Jeff H.