Ferking Grand Prix Manager GPFs in DIBENG.DLL (Win95) AAAARRG!

Oh sugar plum fairies. This ferking Grand Prix Manager game I bought for Xmas. FIRST) it says I must play in 256 colour mode - WHEN I'M RUNNING 64k colours!!! It won't let me play until I've changed down a mode. That is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying. SECOND) it GPFs consistently whenever I select a team logo (and press OK) or review the drivers under Options/Configure (and press OK). Of course, I could be wrong about the menu option because I can't get it to run for long enough to explore much. ****, ****, ****!!!! Roughly translates to "Dung, Compost, Poop!!!!" And I was chuffed to be able to get a game before our US friends too... d8-)) Stuart. -- From the bedroom of Stuart Booth, Somewhere in Guildford, England...

Same problem here. Had to***around for a good 15 minutes picking all the possible setups for my video card. Seems the only one that works is the slowest as far as display is concerned. Any reason WHY this game was not written for DOS??? Don't be so quick to blame software. I've put the game through it's paces and it works fine. I'd take a good look at Win95 first... >Stuart. >-- >From the bedroom of Stuart Booth, >Somewhere in Guildford, England...

>>Oh sugar plum fairies. This ferking Grand Prix Manager game I bought >>for Xmas. snippity snip I agree Stuart, I haven't had any of those sort of problems with Win 3.11, but there are a few other annoying traits I have come across: 1- As soon as cars start race, announcing somebody has broken lap record (without doing a lap?) 2- In qualifying or testing, 1 car staying right behind another car, and posting a time 3 or 4 seconds different. 3- Car sometimes pits during race stops, but doesn't give the option of re-fueling or new tyres (extremely annoying if you are doing unusually well!) 4- Racing with sound means a lot of CD Rom access and tends to slow things down (although this is only a dual speed CD Rom I am using) But saying that I still stand by what I said before about this being a totally ***ive game, it just seems a pity that a little more testing wasn't done before release (mind you then we would have a GP2 situation:-() PS: How is anybody else doing? I seem to make plenty of money but do pathetically in most races (unless I get lucky) Regards Adrian =================================================================== Any opinions which are right, witty, profound or clever are mine. The ***ones belong to my company. ===================================================================

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>1- As soon as cars start race, announcing somebody has broken lap >record (without doing a lap?) >2- In qualifying or testing, 1 car staying right behind another >car, and posting a time 3 or 4 seconds different. >3- Car sometimes pits during race stops, but doesn't give the >option of re-fueling or new tyres (extremely annoying if you are >doing unusually well!) >4- Racing with sound means a lot of CD Rom access and tends to slow >things down (although this is only a dual speed CD Rom I am using) >PS: How is anybody else doing? I seem to make plenty of money but >do pathetically in most races (unless I get lucky)

I have noticed most of the things you mentioned, but just save your game a lot! I am near the end of the second season of racing...finished 1st and 3rd in year one and running 1st and 3rd in the second. Also, make sure you use the "aquire" technology button between every race. Testing and wing angles are very important. Have fun.

> I agree Stuart, I haven't had any of those sort of problems with > Win 3.11, but there are a few other annoying traits I have come > across: I'm running it under 3.1; This -till now- didn't happen to me; but i get messages announcing lap records like "Johnny Herbert set new lap record to 3.55643222e..." right; very irritating. Just like best lap-time in a race beeing from the first round (not too propable, with a standing start... this always forces me to finishing the game immediately. other way around: i do well (with Benneton), but money keeps running through my fingers. some things that annoy me: sponsor advisors that advise me to concentrate on firms that have alreadyinvested in my team and won't increase the budget even if i make first and second place at Mte Carlo; High paid technicians that sometimes have no idea what they can do to improve my cars annoyingly slow interface my cars *never* pass another car, even if its 2-3 secs/lap slower; setting the sliders in a race to "more risk", "fuel no problem" or "tires no problem" does *not* affect the laptimes or the performance and, i'm sure, some other nuisances. all in all, this game is a nice idea, but the realisation is only par to "Elite II Frontier" Martin -- Martin Appel ! What has four wheels and flies?