I am a New Racer to GPL - Question????

Your posts convinced me to buy GPL....what a sim!! I have a question. In an effort to better learn the sim, I am trying to install setups and recorded hot laps from various websites. How is this done?? I have downloaded some setups and laps but do not know where to put them. What are the file extensions for the setups and replays? I am very familiar with the N2/N99 methods. Is GPL similar? Please advise this e***d future GPL racer on how to do this. Also, any good sites where proven setups can be found. Thank you all in advance.

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> Your posts convinced me to buy GPL....what a sim!! I have a question. > In an effort to better learn the sim, I am trying to install setups and > recorded hot laps from various websites. How is this done?? I have > downloaded some setups and laps but do not know where to put them. What > are the file extensions for the setups and replays? I am very familiar > with the N2/N99 methods. Is GPL similar? Please advise this e***d > future GPL racer on how to do this. Also, any good sites where proven > setups can be found. Thank you all in advance.

The default setups are pretty good once you've taken out most of the fuel, and of course each car is different to drive anyway, so you could find one you like that way. If you really want to go fast, though, Schubi's website at [link lost in import: /~schubi/index.htm] lists the top 100 hotlaps for each track, with a replays and setup for each hotlap, so you can take your pick! Personally I use Wolfgang Woeger's Lotus setups, which was a bit of a shock to say the least when I first tried them, as he uses 200lb rollbars front and rear, so it was like driving on ice for a while! Now that I can more or less point the car in a straight line, though, I find I'm going much faster with his setups than with the defaults - it oversteers much more easily, but that makes the turns faster. Anyway, the great thing about this site is that the setups have definitely been proven!

Congratulations and welcome! You may want to concentrate on track time instead of messing with setups. Even if you are skilled it will take some time to feel GPL and learn it's intricacies. fwiw I can run within 2 seconds of the world records with slightly altered default setups, just enough fuel to finish a short pro race, maybe a little lower and check camber to even out the tire temps. Practice. Let me know if you need some web sites, I have over 220 seperate GPL sites bookmarked. Good Luck, John Moore

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> Your posts convinced me to buy GPL....what a sim!! I have a question. > In an effort to better learn the sim, I am trying to install setups and > recorded hot laps from various websites. How is this done?? I have > downloaded some setups and laps but do not know where to put them. What > are the file extensions for the setups and replays? I am very familiar > with the N2/N99 methods. Is GPL similar? Please advise this e***d > future GPL racer on how to do this. Also, any good sites where proven > setups can be found. Thank you all in advance.

Replays should have the extension ".rpy" and should be placed in GPL's "replay" directory. See the readme.txt under the heading "CAR SETUPS" for the file extensions use by car setups. Car setups should be placed in... <gpl_home_dir>\players\<last>__<first>\setups\<track>\. For me, that turns out to be d:\games\sierra\gpl\players\Cassidy__Randy\setups\<track>\ Randy

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