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[magnum]

For those of u who like management sims, check this out, it is very good. U get everything - and then some - from the REAL world.
At the moment i'm in my 3rd season with Sauber - Diniz is paying me 9 million a year for a seat but he refuses to do any testing because i made him number 2 (Wurz, my number 1, is leading the championship) - but we're having problems with our reliability. I have the whole design department working on that - in the meantime our pace is starting to look shabby - from four poles in the first four races, we qualified 15th and 16th at Silverstone -
Sound like fun? It is - this is a great management sim and very very addictive.

[Louis Yu]

May I know the minimum hardware requirement of the game?

Thanks!

[magnum]

at ur service sir!
200mhz with 32MBRAM
275MB free

[Psychoman]

Dammit, they haven't started selling it here That'll be a hell of a game...

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[Louis Yu]

It doesn't require a 3D card?

Good......

[Bennett]

GPW does require a 3D card. Incidentally, I have tried it on a Voodoo Banshee and a Matrox G400 and it seems slow on the G400 for some reason.

From what I understand there are no plans to market it in the US so I ordered a copy from the UK. I couldn't believe it but my order arrived in 4 business days.

Unfortunately I couldn't run it because my "old" 24x CD-ROM had trouble reading the stupid copy protection on the CD. I picked up a new 50x CD-ROM and it worked fine. Anybody else notice a problem with the copy protection?

Love the game, especially the sounds as the cars go by the pits (where your virtual self is monitoring the race of course).

My only gripes with the game are:
(1) There are no intervals shown in the race status displays, only position. So it is hard to tell if your strategy is working at times.
(2) The rain effects are pathetic! The track visuals magically turns from clear to wet with no transition. Fortunately there is a "dry/wet" gauge to help you out.
(3) The game cannot autoswitch color depth so you have to run a desktop of 16bpp color.

Hope they patch some of this stuff up.

[The Swerve]

I just bought this yesteday and it's pretty good! But, bugger me, if it's not indepth! The races are good fun but they last ages (about 45mins - 1 hour)

There SO MUCH to do!

I'm 3 races into the season with Arrows and I managed to get a Ford customer engine for next year but Salo isn't happy because our reliablilty is so poor. He is in talks with Minardi for next season! (good luck mate)

Looks like Danka and Zepter are out for next season and Playlife won't sign with me because my team isn't good enough.

On the upside though, I managed to steal Lois Bigeos from Prost to design my cars for next year and John Barnard is sticking around.

I'm bringing Ford to Monaco this year as VIP guest and hopefully might swing a workd deal.

Gotta go, Ron Dennis is on the phone - something about planks..

[magnum]

I heard through a not completely reliable source that GP World is about to unveil an online patch. That should be fun - ur silly little arrows against my EASTTEAM MERCEDES SAUBER that has won two constructors championship and made little Wurz a three time WDC in a ROW!!!!!!

I have now finally let go of Diniz (who won a race last season, GAWD!!!!!) and hired Hakkinen as 2nd driver.

The best news of all is that Schumacher priced himself out of the market for two seasons and finally found a drive with the Tyrell team who have gone on to not qualify in two races :-)))))) Oh and David Coulthard retired from the sport. All this happens in 2002 ... so stay tuned!!!!!!

Oh and we have Head and Newey on board now so this season we shall romp to yet another great truimph!!!!

[The Swerve]

DC has won the past 3 races in my game!

BTW, as the seasons go by do new drivers appear and get better?

I noticed Montoya is available but he has such a low rating that he isn't worth bothering with. Will he suddenly get better?

I haven't found any GPW website anywhere either, do you know of any?

[magnum]

Haven't seen any myself
but yes the drivers will either get better or worse in their different departments.

Alesi is damn good in the wet and is even better now. The more they win, the better they get. Ol Wurz is as good as me in gpl now :-)

[The Swerve]

heh! we'll see about that tomorrow mate!

[Franco]

Yes there are a few GP world websites, with some patch updates (i believe they added Villineuve and other current driver & team pics and names). Do a search on on a search engine. I was looking into this game to buy, but im not too convinced about it, should i? From what youre posting it sounds pretty good, but have any of you played the original Grand Prix Manager? That game is good, the graphics are outdated but at least you get the time gaps during a race! I cant believe thats absent in GP world! Are you sure? So should i buy it or not? I only want to buy it if i know that ill be playing it with the same enthusiasim 1 year from now.
Cheers.

Ps magnum, ne vale la pena??

[magnum]

Franco yes and si!
And yes you DO get time gaps ... this is a great game, Franco, and very addictive. A year from now? Not sure - but much MUCH better than the original

[HappyDude]

Anyone know if/when this game is available in North America? Or should I just bite the bullet and pay for the overseas shipping costs?

[The Swerve]

I can't find any websites for this anywhere!! I'd like the patch to get rid of John Newhouse asap.

[magnum]

i got mine in england happy - seriously doubt whether this game will EVER get to the US - though it may be available already in Canada.

[Franco]

From what I understand the game will never be marketed in the US. Anyway heres a site I found the other day which has many patches for GP World:
http://www.f1sims.co.uk/

You guys are making me jealous, lucky bastards. And to top it all off today is my birthday....I really want that game! Im still thinking it over. I have another question: Ive seen some screenshots and noticed that there is an overhead view of the track, yet you dont actually see the individual cars on it, they are just dots with numbers. Is that a problem for you guys are do the other cam windows make up for it? My old GP manager at least lets me see the cars overtaking each other, even if they do look like tiny cockroaches. Magnum is there a way to accelerate time via a slider like in GPM or do you have to sit and watch the whole damn 1.5 hour race live? Did any of you buy the game online, and if so where? Thanks and hope the link helps.

[Franco]

Well I downloaded the game from a warez site to try it out, first impressions:

Slick graphics!!
Cool interface!!
Very in-depth!!

Subsequent impressions after 2 races:

The interface is very pretty but pig-slow
The graphics are very good but I want my GPM overhead circuit view back!! I hate these still-TV cams!
Its very indepth but theres a lot of mystery to the inner working of the game

Theyve taken away some cool stuff from GPM but put in some other new cool stuff, so i cant regard it as inferior to GPM.

Anyway….overall i dont think its that bad…i needs a couple of patches i think to fix a few problems. From what I hear Edcom (the developers) are making a patch and a FAQ with hints to help with some of the stuff. Ill be waiting. If the patch fixes the most blatant bugs then ill buy it, otherwise ill stick to driving and not managing F1.

Ps F1 sims uk made a season 2000 patch if anyones interested.

[Jecko]

Does anyone know where I can get some ordering info. about GPW? Who makes the game? I haven't seen it anywhere in Canada

[The Swerve]

It's published by Microprose - if that's any help to you.

[magnum]

Try http://www.microprose.com

[Jecko]

Weird,

They have a listing for GP3, but nothing on GPW.

[Franco]

the official website is
http://www.grandprix...grandprixworld/

And I have to say that the more you play, the more addicting it is. But its too easy. Good game though, better than GPM2, Magnum you were right!!