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Sudden lap time drop in GPL?

5 posts by 4 people · 11 Feb 2000 - 14 Feb 2000

Matt Lanzer 11 Feb 2000#519065
Try re-calibrating your wheel... you may naot be getting max. RPMs... Or you could have a pot going bad...
Quoted text (21 lines)> All of a sudden t GPL wouldn't start properly. I had to wait for a minute or > two before it would start after clicking the exe file. If I would click > twice then after awhile, there would be two games running , lapping each > other. I could continue with the first one by just ESC-aping from the newly > born one. After a while, it got annoying so I re-installed the damn thing. > And now! > With newly installed game my lap times dropped drastically. I used to lap > Monza around 1.30,5 -1.31 with Ferrari , constantly. Now it seems that even > though I push hard, I can hardly make it to 1.33,5. And that's when I'm just > about driving on the edge. Also it seems that now ferrari has much more grip > on the corners and is much easier to handle. Slides are much easier to > control and I don't go out of the track. Throttle is also much more in > control and it's difficult to lose your tail while coming out from > Parabolica, which before was normal element to watch. As if with the new > install Ferrari has lost some of tis engine power and become more consumer > friendly. All this is OK, but i have lost also 3-4 seconds with this > politically correct Ferrari. What's going on? Is this some kind of a joke or > McDonalds version???? > Yes, I have 1.2 version, just like before . And same core.ini and app.ini > Asko Kallonen
gallowa 12 Feb 2000#519223
All of a sudden t GPL wouldn't start properly. I had to wait for a minute or two before it would start after clicking the exe file. If I would click twice then after awhile, there would be two games running , lapping each other. I could continue with the first one by just ESC-aping from the newly born one. After a while, it got annoying so I re-installed the damn thing. And now! With newly installed game my lap times dropped drastically. I used to lap Monza around 1.30,5 -1.31 with Ferrari , constantly. Now it seems that even though I push hard, I can hardly make it to 1.33,5. And that's when I'm just about driving on the edge. Also it seems that now ferrari has much more grip on the corners and is much easier to handle. Slides are much easier to control and I don't go out of the track. Throttle is also much more in control and it's difficult to lose your tail while coming out from Parabolica, which before was normal element to watch. As if with the new install Ferrari has lost some of tis engine power and become more consumer friendly. All this is OK, but i have lost also 3-4 seconds with this politically correct Ferrari. What's going on? Is this some kind of a joke or McDonalds version???? Yes, I have 1.2 version, just like before . And same core.ini and app.ini Asko Kallonen
Wozmon 12 Feb 2000#519224
Were you using a car setup by someone else? With a new install you would be using the default setup. Mike
gallowa 12 Feb 2000#519225
No. Everything is just as it was before the new install. I was using Alison Hines set-ups and I use those same setups, same amount of gasoline, I drive in Grand prix class etc. I tried to put everything as it was.????? Is there a difference betwwen 1.2 updates? I use UK version, which I did also before, but loaded this one form different location. Paranoid. Asko >Were you using a car setup by someone else? With a new install you would be >using the default setup. >Mike
Quoted text (21 lines)> All of a sudden t GPL wouldn't start properly. I had to wait for a minute or > two before it would start after clicking the exe file. If I would click > twice then after awhile, there would be two games running , lapping each > other. I could continue with the first one by just ESC-aping from the newly > born one. After a while, it got annoying so I re-installed the damn thing. > And now! > With newly installed game my lap times dropped drastically. I used to lap > Monza around 1.30,5 -1.31 with Ferrari , constantly. Now it seems that even > though I push hard, I can hardly make it to 1.33,5. And that's when I'm just > about driving on the edge. Also it seems that now ferrari has much more grip > on the corners and is much easier to handle. Slides are much easier to > control and I don't go out of the track. Throttle is also much more in > control and it's difficult to lose your tail while coming out from > Parabolica, which before was normal element to watch. As if with the new > install Ferrari has lost some of tis engine power and become more consumer > friendly. All this is OK, but i have lost also 3-4 seconds with this > politically correct Ferrari. What's going on? Is this some kind of a joke or > McDonalds version???? > Yes, I have 1.2 version, just like before . And same core.ini and app.ini > Asko Kallonen
Sorry if this too obvious, but do you have throttle control and ABS turned on by any chance ?

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