GP2edwin question and comment

A question about Andrzej GP2edwin utility. I am using the 1996 carset in GP2 however when the gp2edwin utility loads it loads the original 1994 carset details into the program. ie David Coulthard in the Williams, the Simtek team etc. etc. If there a way to have it load the 1996 carset without having to create it all over again? Before I make the next comment I would like to say that Andrzej should be congratulated for his fantastic utility. I have concerns that anyone would use this utility to artificially lower their lap times by changing the performance of their engine or increasing the grip of their car and then posting the lap as a genuine lap record. For this reason I will only use the performance altering options of this utility to alter the performance of individual cars and teams to match those of the current cars in F1 season. The only situation in which I would do this is: (i) to modify the performance level of my current team so it resembles the performance characteristics of the real F1 team. example if I was Damon Hill (I wish) in an Arrows and its performance in 1997 improved to that of the Williams (we hope) then the utility should be used to match the Arrows performance to that of the Williams by altering bhp and/or grip. In no circumstances will I ever increase the performance of my car to be above that of the best car/driver combination on the circuit. If you do this and beat your own lap record even by 0.1 second then your kidding yourself. Robert Yates

>A question about Andrzej GP2edwin utility. >I am using the 1996 carset in GP2 however when the gp2edwin utility loads >it loads the original 1994 carset details into the program. ie David >Coulthard in the Williams, the Simtek team etc. etc. If there a way to >have it load the 1996 carset without having to create it all over again? Something strange about this util. Like you say, it starts of with the cars and details from the '94 season. If you do "load settings from gp2.exe" it seems to do nothing. As a test, I tried changing low nose cars to high nose cars and importing to gp2.exe. I ran the game and had a look, sure enough the cars now had high noses. This is good because of the added touch of realism :) So, I don't really know what's going on with this util but at least it changed the noses. Tony

> >A question about Andrzej GP2edwin utility. Hey, ain't it cool to have an game application named after you!!! I think so! Cheers! -- --/ Best Racing Regards, Edwin Solheim To finnish 1st - 1st u have to finnish

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>>A question about Andrzej GP2edwin utility. >>I am using the 1996 carset in GP2 however when the gp2edwin utility loads >>it loads the original 1994 carset details into the program. ie David >>Coulthard in the Williams, the Simtek team etc. etc. If there a way to >>have it load the 1996 carset without having to create it all over again? >Something strange about this util. >Like you say, it starts of with the cars and details from the '94 >season. If you do "load settings from gp2.exe" it seems to do nothing.

<snip> I haven`t noticed a problem with this utility, it automatically loads my 1996 data when I start the program. It may sound simple but under the "Misc settings #1" tab try checking that the path to gp2.exe and also the version that you have selected are correct (you don`t need gp2.exe in the path). Mark _________________________________ "..every lap I think `Oh bollocks! This is dreadful..`" Damon Hill __________________________________

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>>Something strange about this util. >>Like you say, it starts of with the cars and details from the '94 >>season. If you do "load settings from gp2.exe" it seems to do nothing. ><snip> >I haven`t noticed a problem with this utility, it automatically loads >my 1996 data when I start the program. It may sound simple but under >the "Misc settings #1" tab try checking that the path to gp2.exe and >also the version that you have selected are correct (you don`t need >gp2.exe in the path).

Yep done that. UK version and path points to c:\games\gp2 No dice in loading the 1996 carset settings though :( Do you think it could have something to do with the particular carset I'm using? I managed to get another util to work anyway, and that can also raise the nose, which is what I really wanted the util for. Tony