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TheBaker
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Question from someone so excited to see the game still alive

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Hi there,

Firstly I am so happy that this game from my childhood is still alive, however, I have a quick question. Would there be an update around so that the first 10 drivers score points like how it is now, as opposed to the first 6. Currently I am downloading so many great things, but this would make the game perfect for me, if such an update existed.
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Post by DEHUMANIZER95 »

You can easily make the point-system by yourself:
Download GP2edit, import the gamefiles from GP2 and somewhere in the GP2edit Editor is the point for editing the Point-System. :P
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Thanks very much for this :D I'll have to give it a go at the weekend when I am not swamped with work, and report back. I'm certain I did not have such issues when I was playing this aged 8!
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Hi there. I really can't seem to get this to work. Could someone give me a guide on how to edit this, as I'm really struggling.

Thanks in advance :)
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What you can't run?

1. If you want to run bare bones GP2 on Windows higher than XP this is overkill for the game because it is a DOS game. Use DOSBOX.
2. If you want to run GP2Edit - place it in drive C and it would work.

Note: If you have Windows 8/8.1 then you will have huge problems. ](*,)
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I can't seem to run GP2 Edit. The game works fine. I have GP2 edit where you say I should have it, and I edit the championship points and game settings, but then I don't know what to do after that. If I want to save it, I don't know what I should be saving it into and if I press launch game on the GP2 Edit toolbar it says it can't due to incompatability of 64 bit version of Windows, so I'm a bit lost
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Ohh, that's the problem... Do not run the game from there! To save press the "Export" button. It will export every change you made to the game.
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Cheers for the reply mate. It says GP2.exe not patched correctly when I try and export
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Have you patched gp2 with gp2 no cd?

http://www.grandprix2.de/Util/Gp2nocd.zip
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I haven't, but it says that it won't run as the version is not compatible with my version of windows. I'm beginning to feel like a child with my lack of understanding here :(
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No problem! It's normal Gp2 is old ;)
You must install dosbox svn here : http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
and in menu "Quick launch" you go to "gp2 no cd". So don't forget paste the "Circuits" folder in gp2.
Courage!
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TheBaker wrote:I haven't, but it says that it won't run as the version is not compatible with my version of windows. I'm beginning to feel like a child with my lack of understanding here :(
What is your Windows after all? Sounds like 8 or 8.1. :-k
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I'm using Windows 7
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Michael82 wrote:No problem! It's normal Gp2 is old ;)
You must install dosbox svn here : http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
and in menu "Quick launch" you go to "gp2 no cd". So don't forget paste the "Circuits" folder in gp2.
Courage!
I'll try this when I get home from work and report back
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Michael82 wrote:No problem! It's normal Gp2 is old ;)
You must install dosbox svn here : http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
and in menu "Quick launch" you go to "gp2 no cd". So don't forget paste the "Circuits" folder in gp2.
Courage!
Hi Michael. I've installed this, but am not 100% sure what I am meant to be doing with the programme when it opens up. Sorry to be dumb lol
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