Formula 1 games?

|Ric| · 14 Apr 2007 at 22:32

Hope this is in keeping with forum etiquette, not a regular of this area of them.

Just wondering if people could point me in the direction of recent F1 games, the newest I seemed to find was F1 2002 so I figure/hope I am wrong.

Cheers.

ste_bla · 14 Apr 2007 at 22:42

|Ric| said:
Hope this is in keeping with forum etiquette, not a regular of this area of them.

Just wondering if people could point me in the direction of recent F1 games, the newest I seemed to find was F1 2002 so I figure/hope I am wrong.

Cheers.

Sony have the licence at the moment (ea will soon) so PS2/3

|Ric| · 14 Apr 2007 at 23:15

Yeh I was looking for the pc. But when ea get it there should be a pc version?

shr3k · 14 Apr 2007 at 23:17

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/driving/formula1/index.html

I know your looking for big games but this is addicting! lol

Shr3k

LoadsaMoney · 14 Apr 2007 at 23:19

Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix 4 is THE Formula 1 game on the PC.

Its old, but theres a huge amount of updates to bring it bang upto date, like from here

Overlag · 15 Apr 2007 at 02:12

LoadsaMoney said:
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix 4 is THE Formula 1 game on the PC.

Its old, but theres a huge amount of updates to bring it bang upto date, like from here

buggy as hell.... never manged to get it to work... tried on 3 different pcs now. Finaly got it stable, but whenever i pitted it wouldnt let me out.... and since Geoff stopped supporting it, i gave up it ever getting fixed.

So best F1 game (before sony took it to PS2/3 Arcade level) is F1 2002

.one. · 15 Apr 2007 at 04:08

LoadsaMoney said:
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix 4 is THE Formula 1 game on the PC.

Its old, but theres a huge amount of updates to bring it bang upto date, like from here

Totaly agree

Overlag not sure what version your running but mines well stable and all most bug free,same for many ppl.

Pigeon · 15 Apr 2007 at 09:01

EA? F1 Challenge 99-03 came after F1 2002. then you can certainly get add on packs for 2004 and 2005!

|Ric| · 15 Apr 2007 at 09:01

Cheers for that, I'll go and give the Geoff game a look at.

|Ric| · 15 Apr 2007 at 09:05

Pigeon said:
EA? F1 Challenge 99-03 came after F1 2002. then you can certainly get add on packs for 2004 and 2005!

Oooh will investigate that as well

- seems to be called F1 Challenge 99-02 but it was released in 2003

Pigeon · 15 Apr 2007 at 09:21

it's something like that! They had the liscence for 99-02? but not for 03 hence doing a game for all the previous years.

AWPC · 15 Apr 2007 at 11:14

GP4 does work ok on recent PCs but you need to disable hyperthreading or any other form of dual core or dual cpu threading as it only runs without crashing on a single cpu thread.

Look around for a free util called gpxpatch as that allows you to launch the game on a single cpu thread as well as offering other options.

http://www.grandprixgames.org/index.php?14 Lots of good gfx mods which make it look amazing (for a DX8 game).

hellforleather · 15 Apr 2007 at 11:27

best i've found at the mo is rFactor with the cdtp mod

unfortunatly as it is a mod there is no race season as such, i do miss that from F12002 but the racing is awesome!

i must off, bahrain calls

Overlag · 15 Apr 2007 at 11:28

.one. said:
Totaly agree

Overlag not sure what version your running but mines well stable and all most bug free,same for many ppl.

was the latest version of GP4, + GPX.

systems included
TB1200, Geforce3 (98) - Buggy as hell version 1 of game, gave up
XP1700-XP2500, 9700pro (XP) - came back when the patch was released, and GPX started to be made, few crashes, and pitstop bug
X2 4400, 7800gtx (XP SP2) very little crashes(if any), but pitstop bug ruins it.

the only bug left was the pit stop bug, which, when you are running 100% races is rather annoying to be stuck in the pits on your final pitstop......

F.6. - Sometimes the pit crew will not let player go from the pit stop. This is not caused by the player changing tyre/fuel/# of stops left on the steering wheel, and it has been observed to afflict AI controlled cars just as often as the players car. The lollipop man says "1st gear!" and flips the lollipop, then the Jackman bends down and lowers the jack, but he never unhinges the car. As a result the car is stuck forever. When the teammate pulls in for a pit stop later in the race, he will park behind the afflicted car and wait for his turn to be serviced. Thus the race can never end since the two cars will never cross the finish line. And even if they could the race is pretty much destroyed anyway. The bug can happen on any track, and on any lap. It seems more likely to occur when entering the pits on lap 1, and it seems more rare on any other laps of a race. Furthermore, this bug can happen in conjunction with F.13. although there is no reason to believe that these two bugs are linked. Switching to accelerated time does not fix this, neither does it allow the race to end. It is easiest to reproduce by creating first corner mayhem, damaging several cars in the process, in a string of quickraces. Workaround: Do not pit on lap 1. If the problem happens anyway, there is no fix, apart from abandoning the race. Easy/Medium (for lap 1)/hard (for any other lap) to reproduce.

F.13. - Entire pit crews have been reported to be able to disappear/become ghostlike, even though the other pit crews are not. It was observed that four wheels, two jacks, a lollypop sign and a fuel hose levitated out of a Minardi garage to service the car at the pit stop. Clearly the pit crew was invisible. Furthermore, a variant reportedly also lets the jacks, tyres, fuel hose and lollypop be invisible. Another variant lets the pit crew disappear the moment the car is jacked off the tarmac. The moment the car returned to the tarmac, the pit crew became visible again. The tools of the pit crew remained visible though. This has been observed at Spa-francorchamps, Magny Cours and Silverstone. So it is very certain that this bug is not related to any specific track. Furthermore, it can happen in conjunction with F.6. although there is no reason to believe that these two bugs are linked. No workaround. medium to reproduce.