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Option 2 - Download Grand Prix 4 from GP4 Central. Download Grand Prix 4 here. The GP4 Central version of GP4 is already patched with the Official v9.6 patch, the Decrypted No-CD exe and the latest version of GPxPatch. You just extract it, and play! Remember to restart the game after configuring your graphics and sound (see step 4 above). Download the 'Full RIP Pre Patched 512MB' file. Unzip, or just drag the 'Grand Prix 4' directory from the zip file, to the location of your choice (in my case it was J: Games ), and then create a shortcut on your desktop to GP4.exe located in said 'Grand Prix 4' directory. Double click the shortcut, and play the game.

Whether it’s your mother trying a different flavoured marinade on the Sunday lunch, your boss trying a different ill-fitting toupee at the weekly board meeting, or your wife trying a different PVC/rubber combo outfit on the Thursday 'appointment’, it’s always nice to see people trying something new.

So it is with the fourth of the long-running and long-admired Grand Prix series from F1 simulation maestro Geoff Crammond. Not much has changed regarding the actual game, but this time it all comes packaged with a handy in-game F1 DIY guide called the Gpedia.

The idea is that it takes you through all of the horrendously complex car tuning options with step-by-step guides to adjusting your bumpers and flattening your wings and so on, During the preview stages it all sounded like the greatest thing to hit F1 games in years. Can you guess what happens next?

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

Something must have got lost in the translation somewhere along the line because the much heralded Gpedia turns out to be little more than an in-game manual. It’s certainly no more informative than any of the printed ones that come with every other F1 game out there, except with amateur video footage accompanying the text that makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like an Oscar-worthy masterpiece.

But let's not allow that to 1 distract us. We ' didn’t come here to read about Formula One, we came here to live it. And I’m happy to report that on the simulation side of things, Grand Prix 4 is about as perfect a driving experience as it’s currently possible to get without strapping yourself to David Coulthard’s ample chin. The feeling of control is far superior to that offered in F1 2002,GP4's nearest rival, with vastly improved handling and a greater range of tune-up options.

The sense of racing is also much better than anything we’ve had before, with Al that on the whole does a grand job of giving you the impression of being in a real battle for the chequered flag. That said, there are a few flies in the ointment of realism. For example, spin out of control and end up lying across the path of another driver and will they reverse back then steer around your prone car? No, apparently Mika Hakkinen (sadly the teams and drivers are all last seasons) would prefer to continually nudge your car’s chassis for half an hour, until the marshals run on to drag you away - marshals who, incidentally, have both balls and bodies of steel as they’ll happily run onto the track as other cars scream past at a zillion miles per hour (or 1.6 zillion km per hour if you’re feeling metric) before attaching you to the invisible cranes by the side of each track.

There are other questions too. Why are all the driver and team names in lower case?Why can only save changes to the game’s set-up optionswhen choose to quit the game? Why can’t change my keyboard set-up mid race? Why is there no instant restart for a quick race? Why can't choose what data is displayed on the steering wheel readout? Why does your pit crew tell you the road is clear for you to pull out of the garage despite the fact that there are four other cars all accelerating in your direction? Why? Why? Why?

Razzle-Dazzle

The emphasis being on simulation over gameplay throws up other problems. What if you want the accuracy but don’t want to drive for either Ferrari, Williams or McLaren? Without the option for team improvement over seasons, either through the purchase or development of better equipment, you’re not really going to have much chance of success if you opt to drive for one of the smaller teams such as Minardi or BAR, no matter how much you tinker with the spring stiffness or ride height.

And what about the sense of achievement or reward? Certainly, there’s a feeling of progress as you get to grips with each track, learn each corner and push the speed envelope a little further with each lap. But a brief, generic animation sequence after a race doesn’t really offer any major incentive to keep plugging away. You don’t even get a grid walk before a race - practically a staple for any F1 game.

What we’re still not getting, despite all the authenticity shown in the driving side of the game, is a true sense of being a F1 driver. It’s all too easy to get carried away praising the accuracy of the simulation that Crammond has produced here, hailing GP4 as the finest driving game of all time and that, but F1 is about more than just the driving.

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Anoraks Aren’t The Only Fruit

If I’ve sounded rather negative throughout this review it’s only because this could have - no, deserves to have been the definitive F1 game on the market. You can’t ask for a finer pedigree than Geoff Crammond, and from a simulation point of view there’s nothing to touch Grand Prix 4. Absolutely the best, no question. But gameplay, people. Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay.

This whole genre needs a shot in the arm if it’s going to start appealing to an audience beyond obsessive F1 petrolheads. Otherwise all you’re getting with each new game is little more than a graphical and statistics update (see panel). I have absolutely no interest in the American sport of TOCA racing. None. But the imminent new TOCA game has my attention, perhaps more than any other driving game out there, simply because it’s attempting something new with its story and career-based gameplay.

That’s the lesson F1 developers need to learn. We don't just want to compete with Michael Schumacher on the track, we want to compete with him off the track as well. Don’t just make us drive. Make us care. Saying that, though, GP4 is top of the pile. Graphically lush, anally detailed (the telemetry options alone are staggeringly comprehensive, not to mention the car setup options) and with some of the best Al to date, it edges out EA's offering for pole position. You won’t find a more accurate racing sim anywhere, and no F1 fan should be without a copy. Let’s just hope that next time, Crammond and co put some soul into what's an otherwise superb simulation.

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How to install Grand Prix 4

This article covers two different ways to correctly install GP4.

IMPORTANT! It is recommended to install (or extract) GP4 to your Home directory, not the default Program Files directory.

IMPORTANT! The first time you play GP4, you will be prompted to configure the graphics and sound. After this is completed, you should exit the game, and then restart the game.

Option 1 - Using your original CD

Install GP4 from your CD or ISO
Install the Official v9.6 patch
Replace GP4.exe with the Decrypted No-CD GP4.exe
Run the game and configure graphics / sound, then exit
Install GPxPatch by SDI Utilities
Run the game again

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Option 2 - Download Grand Prix 4 from GP4 Central

The GP4 Central version of GP4 is already patched with the Official v9.6 patch, the Decrypted No-CD exe and the latest version of GPxPatch. You just extract it, and play!

Remember to restart the game after configuring your graphics and sound (see step 4 above).

GP4 gives 'please insert CD' message

The solution is to mount an ISO image of the GP4 CD using a tool such as WinCDEmu.

On Windows 10 you can simply right-click the .iso and select Mount.

How to install tracks in GP4

What files make a track?

.dat [see example] This file is mandatory. It contains the track layout
.wad [see example] This file is mandatory. It contains the circuit graphics
.gpi [see example] This file is optional. It contains the menu trackmap
.bmp [see example] This file is optional. It contains the loading screen
.ini [see example] This file is optional. It contains information about the track such as the menu track name and the number of laps
.bin [no example] This file is optional. It contains the dry parts of the track (under bridges / tunnels)
.anm [no example] This file is optional. It contains the pitcrew animations (so they appear on the correct side of the pitlane)

IMPORTANT! Typically you should not rename the .wad file; it should use one of the original 17 .wad filenames.

Steps for installing a track

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Place all of the track files in one folder. Do not place more than one track's files in the folder [see example].
Open GPxPatch and select the GPxTrack tab. There are 17 slots, one for each track. Click Edit, and then browse to the .dat file of the track you want to use in that slot.
Run GP4 and check your track is working.

REMEMBER! You cannot have more than 17 tracks in GP4, because that is how many there were in 2001.

For more information about GPxTrack see the GPxPatch documentation at SDI Utilities.

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