Mostly I like it. It's in need of a bit of fine tuning I think, but
it's pretty damn good for a first release. I had some difficulty at
first with the setups, but then realized it was loading my F1 setups.
So I went in and deleted all the old F1 setups under my player name in
the SaveGT directory, and things behaved a little better.
I tried the Ferrari 550 and the Porsche 996. The Porsched felt great,
the Ferrari felt terrible. Not that I would know what either one is
like in real life, but I found it very difficult to control the braking
distances in the Ferrari, and it also seemed to oversteer horribly at
low speeds and push horribly at high speeds. I imagine much of that can
be taken care of with setup.
It also seems that the GT vehicles are more detailed than the F1's. It
was no problem at the A1 Ring, but at Spa I had to turn down the vehicle
***pit detail level in order to get decent performance. Not sure what
the problem was, because the frame rate counter stayed around 40, but it
felt like it was running at less than 20 until I turned the detail level
down. And that was with only me on the track.
Anyway I'm glad you talked me into it. Lot's of fun, and I'm sure it
will continue to be refined and expanded with time. Still kind of
looking forward to an ALMS mod though. I really want to drive LMP's in
this game.
Regards,
Hal
> So what do you think of the mod?
> David G Fisher
> > Not sure if anyone else has already figured this out, but I will
post it
> > here just in case not. If you have looked at the F1 2001 GT Mod you
are
> > probably aware that the installation instructions require you to
edit
> > your config.ini file in such a way as to make it impossible to drive
the
> > F1 cars. Of course you could create two different files - the
original
> > and the edited version - and swap them as necessary, but it turns
out
> > there is an easier way. I searched through the F1_2001.exe file and
> > found that it accepts a command line argument of the form
> > "config=<filename>". So what I did was copy the config.ini file to
a
> > new file, named it "configGT.ini", and made the changes to that file
> > instead. I then created a new shortcut called "GT 2000" and gave it
the
> > following command line:
> > C:\GAMES\F12001~1\F1_2001.exe config=configGT.ini
> > You will of course need to substitute your own path to the F1_2001
> > executable file. Worked perfectly, as far as I can tell. I only
ran it
> > briefly and only in Test mode, but everything appeared to function
> > properly. So now I have two shortcuts, one for F1 2001 and one for
the
> > GT 2000 mod, and I don't have to do anything special to switch
between
> > them.
> > HTH,
> > Hal
