Infogrames har ganske pludselig sneget en officiel patch til deres Grand Prix 4 (GP4) på gaden – selvom man havde lovet, at XBox-versionen, som stadig ikke har set dagens lys, ville blive gjort færdig først. Især folk med AMD CPU’er vil nu kunne opleve GP4, uden konstant at opleve spontate programfejl. Dertil kommer en længere række mindre graverende fejl, som der nu endeligt er blevet taget hånd om. Du kan hente læse en nærmere beskrivelse af rettelser og forbedringer og hente patchen her fra Daily Rush.

Grand Prix 4 by Simergy – retail v4.0 patch



This is the official version 4.0 patch for Grand Prix 4 by Geoff Crammond,
Simergy and Infogrames that corrects numerous bugs and technical issues:



  • Compat – Heat haze actived: Sometimes on the track (any motor circuit), when
    the heat haze is actived, then the car who precedes (or who follows) the
    player’s car disappears. This bug is visible with the camera behind the
    player’s car and when there is some distance between the two cars.
  • Conso – Frozen during sound calibration: The game will lock up and freeze
    during the sound calibration sequence. This is common with installed Sound
    Blaster Audigy chipsets. This bug has been reported by the GB hotline. Not seen
    in our tests…
  • Pit crew disappearing: When the pit crew pushes cars back into the pit, they
    sometimes disappear and reappear. Most seen from the helmet cam view.
  • Installer only checks the presence of DirectX 8.0: The installer check the
    presence of DirectX 8.0 instead of DirectX 8.1
  • Conso – Game droppped to windows desktop: The game will install fully. When
    the player launches for the first time the Safe disk splash screen appears,
    then the program will drop to the windows desktop. Sometimes the program will
    show a full blask screen before dropping out. This occurs on a wide variety of
    different PC system and so far there does not appear to be a common to any
    particular CD/DVD-Rom drive. This bug has been reported by the GB hotline. Not
    seen in our tests…
  • Conso – Disk2 asked during installation: During installation the program
    installs to 58% (other figures can occur). Stops and then asks for disk2 to be
    inserted. The install is then aborted. The game is a 1disk title. This bug
    really looks like the one which occured with Japanese, Greek and Hebrew OS.
    Maybe people who had this installation problem tried to install on a Indian or
    other OS. This bug has been told by the GB hotline. Not seen in our tests…
  • Conso – Pits drop down monitor: In hotseat mode, while qualifying, when you
    change player, while viewing the drop down monitor in the pits, it displays the
    wrong laptimes/drivers. This is a bug from forum. Not seen in our tests…
  • Best lap time in qualifications: Sometimes the game will post wrong lap/qual
    times in the skybox messages. Skybox show a new fastest lap/pole time set by
    player A, but it displays the wrong lap time, the one just beaten. The
    displaying of the beaten pole time seems only to happen when the player beats a
    pole time he himself has set previously or set by an AI.
  • Car’s mirrors when changing player: If it is the second players turn, and the
    first was in the pits when play was handed over, the mirrors on the car are not
    updated porperly in helmet camera view. The car changes, and it is placed in
    the correct garage, yet the mirrors will display the previous pit crew men and
    garage.
  • Strange viewing mode when auto-director activated: When the auto- director is
    activated with the Ins” key, it is possible to produce strange results. It
    makes a mixture of the visor view and the above helmet view. Moreover, the car
    is visibly running 20cm below the tarmac surface. See screenshot.”
  • Conso – Green rev counter leds: Sometimes the green rev counter leds on the
    steering wheel go out when they should not. It is single leds that go out, not
    the whole string. It can happen any of the four green leds, and in any game
    mode. Seems to happen more often when, but is not limited to, traction control
    is activated. Has not been observed in AI controlled cars. This bug has been
    seen in a forum.
  • Conso – Marshalls staying on track’s side: Sometimes the marshalls forget to
    leave the track after they have cleaned up an accident. The yellow flag zone
    does go away but the marshalls continue to stand by the track side for the
    remaining duration of the race. This bug has been seen in a forum.
  • Conso – Damaged car graphics not updated: After a crash that damages the car,
    then when you are put back into the pits by a marshall or player uses
    Shift”+”Q”, the repair car routine doesn’t always work properly. The damage
    model is updated, but the graphics are not. Hence, the car still looks damaged.
    This bug has been seen in a forum.”
  • Conso – Season 2001 cars and drivers: Alex Yoong has the wrong helmet in the
    game. He has been given Tarso Marques’ helmet. The BAR cars have swapped
    numbers. In the game Jacques Villeneuve car has number 9 and Olivier Panis
    number 10. In the actual entry list for the F1 season 2001, Jacques
    Villeneuve’s car was entered as number 10 and Olivier Panis’ car as number 9.
    This bug has been seen in a forum.
  • MPH displayed in KPH: If Imperial units are selected in the menu setup”, then
    speed is shown in Miles Per Hour (MPH). If the player then watches a replay
    with TV overlays on, then the speed measured in the speed traps is displayed in
    the TV overlays in Kilometers Per Hour (KPH). This is a bug from forum. Not
    seen in our tests.”
  • Used tyres displayed in hex-decimal on the LCD screen: When player
    selects used tyres from the steering wheel, the tyre menu displays the amount
    of laps the tyre has been used in hex-decimal. For instance, 26 laps is
    displayed as 1A. When the tyre is selected and the player returns to the main
    menu on the steering wheel, the number of laps driven is displayed correctly.
  • Conso – Disappearing skidmarks: When racing with race distance set to 100 %,
    suddenly all the trackmarks ( the burned rubber from wheelspin and skidmarks
    etc.) disappears; The track is clean again and no new marks are added. This bug
    comes from a forum, never seen in our tests
  • Wheel disappearing: Sometimes, while driving or after loosing a wheel and
    going for a pitstop , one of your wheels disappears. You can still drive as if
    it was there, but it is not displayed anymore…
  • Car set up display: car set up of two driver are not diplayed correctly for
    Pedro de la Rosa the car set up available in driver screen is Alex Young’s for
    Alex Young the car set up available in driver screen is Thomas Enge’s
  • Car failures on LCD screen: If your car has several failures, they are all
    displayed superimposed on the LCD screen of the steering wheel.
  • TCP/IP in 2 players: When you click on Connect in TCP/IP with “2 players”
    selected, you have a frozen screen.


Download: Grand Prix 4 patch