East Londoner wrote:On my copy of GP4 (which I seldom play nowadays, thanks to A-levels), I find that the cars belonging to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Tomas Enge, when under CPU control, have a massive performance disadvantage compared to the rest of the field. They'll qualify 6-7 seconds off the pace, and wind up 5 or 6 laps down if they make it to the end of a race. Wierd
Did you update the game with the 9.6 patch? I remember there was a performance issue with the original release and the field spread was too big. In the patched version the only issue (that I know of) is that Alonso's and Yoong's performances are swapped.
I've never updated the thing with patches or mods, because the computer in my home is so slow and crap it would take geological time periods to download stuff. I might have a go on my laptop, though it won't be until Easter at the earliest, as sixth form is top priority.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.
Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.
What's fragging?
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.
What's fragging?
Killing. I've no idea where the term came from either.
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.
What's fragging?
dr-baker, U NO Gamer. I salute you, sir!
Colin Kolles on F111, 2011 HRT challenger: The car doesn't look too bad; it looks like a modern F1 car.
Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.
What's fragging?
dr-baker, U NO Gamer. I salute you, sir!
Never been into that kinda thing. Didn't get my first games console under after graduating from my first degree course. And then it was only to play racing games almost exclusively (I also have pool, Monopoly and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?...).
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!
Another hilarious game in my awful PC racing games collection is a game called GT-R 400 which again I got for next to nothing at CEX, and resembles a load of 3 lap dashes around fictional tracks in either a Mosler or an Ascari! I'm thinking Sammy Jones might take a break into the sportscar world at some point during his career possibly!
Which reminds me, could anyone recommend a decent sportscar simulation game that I could try and run a championship off? It needs to be a PC game, and pretty old, I wouldn't say newer than about 2004 else my laptop won't deal with the graphics?
AndreaModa wrote:Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!
Another hilarious game in my awful PC racing games collection is a game called GT-R 400 which again I got for next to nothing at CEX, and resembles a load of 3 lap dashes around fictional tracks in either a Mosler or an Ascari! I'm thinking Sammy Jones might take a break into the sportscar world at some point during his career possibly!
Which reminds me, could anyone recommend a decent sportscar simulation game that I could try and run a championship off? It needs to be a PC game, and pretty old, I wouldn't say newer than about 2004 else my laptop won't deal with the graphics?
While I haven't played it in ages, I highly recommend GTR2 although I don't know if it would fry your laptop or not.
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
AndreaModa wrote:Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!
Another hilarious game in my awful PC racing games collection is a game called GT-R 400 which again I got for next to nothing at CEX, and resembles a load of 3 lap dashes around fictional tracks in either a Mosler or an Ascari! I'm thinking Sammy Jones might take a break into the sportscar world at some point during his career possibly!
Which reminds me, could anyone recommend a decent sportscar simulation game that I could try and run a championship off? It needs to be a PC game, and pretty old, I wouldn't say newer than about 2004 else my laptop won't deal with the graphics?
While I haven't played it in ages, I highly recommend GTR2 although I don't know if it would fry your laptop or not.
I remember buying Total Immersion Racing in 2003/4 while I was living in France (the game is in English!). Not sure about a championship, but it definitely has a career mode, a bit like TOCA.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
AndreaModa wrote:Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!
It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?
FMecha wrote:It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?
No I didn't know there was any!
Cheers for those suggestions by the way guys, a quick look on ebay shows I can pick up Total Immersion Racing for less than a bus ticket so I think I might be going for that one!
FMecha wrote:It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?
No I didn't know there was any!
Cheers for those suggestions by the way guys, a quick look on ebay shows I can pick up Total Immersion Racing for less than a bus ticket so I think I might be going for that one!
Yay! I enjoyed it, still haven't quite finished it but I really got into it.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
FMecha wrote:It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?
No I didn't know there was any!
Cheers for those suggestions by the way guys, a quick look on ebay shows I can pick up Total Immersion Racing for less than a bus ticket so I think I might be going for that one!
Considering the ridiculously low price I think I might buy a copy as well! £1.99 brand new is rather hard to resist. Also available brand new on eBay for a grand total of 99p...Ford Racing. I have this actually, it's not as bad as the price may suggest. It's by no means a great game, but, it is quite varied in terms of tracks and the models of Ford available. Oval racing with the Ford Taurus, dirt racing with the Focus WRC & RS2000 WRC, circuit racing, street racing, it has all of it.
A couple of days ago, I finished a dry, 50% run at Monaco with the 1993 mod for F1 Challenge 99-02. I thought I'd have a decent challenge, against Schumacher and Senna and Prost, but they all retired! Only two drivers made it to the end, Brundle and me, with me winning! Was quite strange, but I did get a battle with Senna at least for around 10 laps before he slammed it into the wall.
Worth mentioning I was in a McLaren, though. Who knows what would happened if I was using one of the lower cars!
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I remember having to pull into the pits at Imola in GP4 after damaging practically everybody's front wing after a small mistake on the opening lap at Variante Alta.Enge was ahead of me,but was going extremely slow,about 30 mph into the pits.I could not brake in time,but barely touched his back wheel.Result:Enge goes flying at 90 mph into the pit wall and rebounding into Half Schumacher on the back straight,ending both of their races.
My friend's USB drive spoiled, spilled tea on her laptop and had a bird poo in her hand.
Xkoranate also simulates Football, and I've decided to simulate an alternate Bundesliga from its very first season on. And here are my champions so far:
1963/64: VfB Stuttgart 1964/65: Preußen Münster 1965/66: Preußen Münster 1966/67: MSV Duisburg 1967/68: Rot-Weiß Essen 1968/69: FC Bayern München 1969/70: Hertha BSC Berlin 1970/71: Kickers Offenbach
And some further notes: - The 1.FC Köln ended up three times on second place! - Hertha BSC Berlin had the same points as second places MSV Duisburg, yet won the championship because their goal difference was better by one (!) goal. - Notable clubs that suffered from relegation: Borussia Dortmund (In 63/64); Borussia Mönchengladbach (In 66/67); Eintracht Frankfurt; 1.FC Kaiserslautern (Both in 67/68); Werder Bremen and Preußen Münster (In 68/69) and Rot-Weiß Essen (In 69/70). - And since I don't simulate the second division, it may take a very long time before one of the clubs from above makes it back to the Bundesliga, because I always use the promoted teams as they were in real life (Which may decrease the chances for Münster (They never made it back to the Bundesliga after their RL relegation in '64) or Mönchengladbach (They never got relegated until 1999). Although one of them may randomly re-enter when there is a team missing.
Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.
Meanwhile, I remembered another GPM2 gem I posted somewhere else. It's 2009 and Toro Rosso go for broke:
Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.
And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."
Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.
And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."
Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.
And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."
Dancing with the Stars? Hell no. Let's do some Dance Dance Revolution
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.
And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."
Dancing with the Stars? Hell no. Let's do some Dance Dance Revolution
Waka Luca's a neverending story, glory, glory, glory.
This happened in Formula One 2003 on the PlayStation 2.
The season was crazy. But I did mix it up a bit by crashing people out on tracks in which it was possible. Therefore the many winners.
Drivers who won that season were M. Schumacher, Barrichello, Montoya, R. Schumacher, Raikkonen, Coulthard, Alonso (Me), Trulli, Button and JOS bathplug BOSS VERSTAPPEN (in Nurburgring).
Coulthard won the title with 65 points in Suzuka. 6 drivers were in contention in the final race.
Benetton wrote:This happened in Formula One 2003 on the PlayStation 2.
The season was crazy. But I did mix it up a bit by crashing people out on tracks in which it was possible. Therefore the many winners.
Drivers who won that season were M. Schumacher, Barrichello, Montoya, R. Schumacher, Raikkonen, Coulthard, Alonso (Me), Trulli, Button and JOS bathplug BOSS VERSTAPPEN (in Nurburgring).
Coulthard won the title with 65 points in Suzuka. 6 drivers were in contention in the final race.
Bathplug, that is crazy! I wish they released that game in North America...
Mistakes in potatoes will ALWAYS happen Trulli bad puns... IN JAIL NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
Klon wrote:Meanwhile, I remembered another GPM2 gem I posted somewhere else.
Fun fact: that somewhere else happens to be the GPM2World forums, back in ye olde days of 2008 when it was still very active and the F1Rejects forum didn't even exist yet. I also didn't notice that you were a member there as well until now!
Eurosport broadcast for the 1990 Mexican GP prequalifying: "The Life, it looked very lifeless yet again... in fact Bruno did one, slow lap"
in f1 04 once I crashed with HWMSNBM and I was out. As you you your engineer tells you who won, well I got a stunning message saying baumgartner was won the race, he's finished. My only reaction could be
andrew wrote:in f1 04 once I crashed with HWMSNBM and I was out. As you you your engineer tells you who won, well I got a stunning message saying baumgartner was won the race, he's finished. My only reaction could be
It's HWNSNBM, i'd be shocked if that didn't happen.
Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.
I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
East Londoner wrote:Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.
I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.
happened to me as well, so I got my drive back and in Canada my drive was under pressure ( Because I crash alot) I was leading and the car broke down so I got sacked. I took pole in Imola in a minardi
East Londoner wrote:Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.
I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.
That's sponsorship logic.
Mistakes in potatoes will ALWAYS happen Trulli bad puns... IN JAIL NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
East Londoner wrote:Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.
I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.
I remember a race on F1 2004 where I crashed out on lap 3 of the Australian GP and Mark Webber won the race!
aerond wrote:Yes RDD, but we always knew you never had any sort of taste either
tommykl wrote:I have a shite car and meme sponsors, but Corrado Fabi will carry me to the promised land with the power of Lionel Richie.
And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition." 
