gp2 steering :(

is there any way of turning the automatic steeing off (ie car turns into corner before you want it) - this i hate, especially when you correct some oversteer, then it corrects you?? msg me thanks sterl

> is there any way of turning the automatic steeing off > (ie car turns into corner before you want it) - this i hate, > especially when you correct some oversteer, then it corrects you?? You can turn off this help in the control-options. Under the digital/analog-steering option there are two buttons. Switch them off!

> > is there any way of turning the automatic steeing off > > (ie car turns into corner before you want it) - this i hate, > > especially when you correct some oversteer, then it corrects you?? > You can turn off this help in the control-options. Under the > digital/analog-steering option there are two buttons. Switch them off! WHY!!!! do people keep posting for information that is IN THE MANUAL??? Maybe they didn't get the manual with their version????? Read the manual or buy a "new" copy. Just like the guy who asked if you can enable gp2 to run without a cd because he dosnt want to keep putting his cd in!! Gee I wonder why he wants to do that? mac

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:56:52 +1030, Brian Mckinnon

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>WHY!!!! do people keep posting for information that is IN THE MANUAL??? >Maybe they didn't get the manual with their version????? >Read the manual or buy a "new" copy. >Just like the guy who asked if you can enable gp2 to run without a cd >because he dosnt want to keep putting his cd in!! >Gee I wonder why he wants to do that?

Wasn't me that asked that question (and btw, I've sent a few RTFM responses as well <g>), but to my mind, having to put a CD in the drive seems a retro step and reminds me too much of when I didn't have a hard drive & had to keep on inserting floppy disks. Besides which, my CD drive occasionally makes grinding noises.... So there is a legitimate reason for not wanting to have the CD in the drive. Richard

: > : > > : > > is there any way of turning the automatic steeing off : > > (ie car turns into corner before you want it) - this i hate, : > > especially when you correct some oversteer, then it corrects you?? : > : WHY!!!! do people keep posting for information that is IN THE MANUAL??? : Maybe they didn't get the manual with their version????? : Read the manual or buy a "new" copy. Well, if one drives via the keyboard, I don't think there is a way of turning off steering help. Maybe, just maybe the guy is a keyboard jockey?! : Just like the guy who asked if you can enable gp2 to run without a cd : because he dosnt want to keep putting his cd in!! : Gee I wonder why he wants to do that? Well, let's see now..... I did a full install and usually have a CD in my drive for "productive" work. Now why should I have to eject the CD, insert GP2 just so I can tool around the track???? -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

I would like to play it at work (during luch of course) :) without having to bring the cd in everyday Rob

I'ld like to play it at work (all day of course <G>). But my employer won't let me :( Richard

Go to the Control Menu then click on advanced. On the upper-left of the screen there is a steering help option. Turn it off. Nash

> is there any way of turning the automatic steeing off >(ie car turns into corner before you want it) - this i hate, >especially when you correct some oversteer, then it corrects you?? You have to use joystick then to modify the control settings. With keys it's not possible..

MC> Well, let's see now..... I did a full install and usually have a CD MC> in my drive for "productive" work. Now why should I have to eject MC> the CD, insert GP2 just so I can tool around the track???? If it's THAT much hassle, why don't you add another cheap cd to you SCSI chain and have one productive and one entertaining cd? B-) Cheers! --- * RM 1.3 U0414 * There's got to be a future in time travel.

Hah tell me where there is a cheap SCSI CDROM LOads of cheap IDE ones Rob

>MC> Well, let's see now..... I did a full install and usually have a CD >MC> in my drive for "productive" work. Now why should I have to eject >MC> the CD, insert GP2 just so I can tool around the track???? >If it's THAT much hassle, why don't you add another cheap cd to you SCSI >chain and have one productive and one entertaining cd? B-) Well, let's see now. A **FULL* install of GP2 puts about 55MB of data on your hard drive. My GP2 CD has over 550MB of data on it. So, unless you've got an extra 500-600MB of space available on your hard drive and can "hack" the GP2 EXE file to remove the CD checks, you're always going to need the CD in the drive to be able to play. BTW, I am aware that someone put a so-called "full release" version up in some of the WAREZ newsgroups but since it was **ONLY** about 40MB or so in size I don't know what they cut out. I guess if they cut out the 200+MB of sounds and 200+MB of track data they could make it come out that small but what's left at that point <grin>? Ron McGlade - Team OS/2 Scottsdale, Arizona On 08/12/96 at 22:04:28 -0700 -- DATA COMPRESSION: What You Get When You Squish An Android!

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>Well, let's see now. A **FULL* install of GP2 puts about 55MB of data on >your hard drive. My GP2 CD has over 550MB of data on it. So, unless >you've got an extra 500-600MB of space available on your hard drive and >can "hack" the GP2 EXE file to remove the CD checks, you're always going >to need the CD in the drive to be able to play. >BTW, I am aware that someone put a so-called "full release" version up >in some of the WAREZ newsgroups but since it was **ONLY** about 40MB or >so in size I don't know what they cut out. I guess if they cut out the >200+MB of sounds and 200+MB of track data they could make it come out >that small but what's left at that point <grin>?

I haven't seen that 'warez' version, but I think it has all the essential game components. I did the full install, which was about 55mb, as you said. About 13mb of that is animations, which aren't really necessary for gameplay. That leaves us with about 42mb, the size of the warez version. Turn off the music in the menus, and you won't need the 200mb of sounds on the CD. All the sounds during driving are on your harddisk. So far so good, but how can we play since we have no trackdata? But we actually have it. If you monitor the CD-ROM usage when playing the game, it only accesses the drive long enough to check if the correct CD is in the drive. It does not access it long enough to load anything from the CD-ROM. I think that 200+MB track data file is bogus. I think MP put the file there just to discourage any wannabe pirates from copying the game, thinking that it would be too large. If you're wondering where all the graphics for the tracks are, they are in the 'GAMEJAMS' directory and it's subdirectories. tax -- See my homepage for Formula One Shadow Series: http://www.hut.fi/~tax/ "Kuorma-auto - Hy?dyksesi tiell?"