Grand Prix Legends v1.1

Grand Prix Legends v1.1

Implements a long list of features, see "More Info" for details.

-The minimum ride height has been increased from 1 inch (2.54cm) to 2.5 inches (6.34cm). Any car setup you load that has a lower ride height will automatically have the ride height increased to this value.

-The order in which drivers are dropped when you choose less than a full field of AI has been changed so that you still get some slow AI drivers even with small fields.

-Joystick axes may now be assigned to shift up/shift down.

-There was a bug in our DirectInput joystick code that caused problems when a device reported more than 8 axes (the Gravis Xterminator (at least on Win95), and Thrustmaster Force GT, for example). This has been fixed.

-A new 3Dfx rasterizer (rast3dfx.dll) is included. The only difference is a change that allows Voodoo 3 users to change screen resolutions without corrupting the texture maps.

-When calibrating your joystick, the on-screen instructions say to return your joystick to center before pressing OK. The intent is to reset the joystick center position when you hit OK. GPL 1.0 only set the center position when you pressed the "Calibrate Joysticks" button to begin the calibration, and did not reset it when you hit the OK button. This has been fixed.

-When loading a saved race, the qualifying setup would be applied to the car, even if the race was the current session. This has been fixed.

-The pit board at the Nurburgring has been moved to the other side of Sudkehre so that you now see your most recent lap time.

-GPL would sometimes crash the system when saving a large replay. This has been fixed.

-GPL would sometimes shut down improperly, causing some files to not be saved, and some system settings to not be restored. This seemed to happen more often on slower systems. This has been fixed. These changes also improved game performance by one or two percent.

-Activating the Player Info screen would sometimes change the state of the automatic shifting, braking and traction driving aids. This has been fixed.

-The Race Setup dropdown list on the car setup screen would extend off the bottom of the screen, instead of scrolling as the Practice Setup dropdown list does. This has been fixed.

-GPL will now run on Windows NT with DirectX installed (I believe NT4 with service pack 3, and NT 5 Beta 2). The Generic joystick driver is not avaliable on Windows NT. GPL will also run on dual-processor NT systems, and take advantage of both processors. Don't expect any miracles, though. GPL is quite memory intensive, and a dual-processor machine has two processors fighting for memory bandwidth instead of just one. Because of GPL's architecture, it is unlikely that a machine with more than two processors would provide any benefit.

-You are no longer allowed to get into your car while the checkered flag is out during a qualifying session. Also, Race Control will reduce the amount of time the checkered flag is displayed in qualifying once scoring has been completed for all cars.

-If all cars drop out of a race during the race session, Race Control will throw the checkered flag and end the race.

-Exported race results now contain the race type (novice, intermediate-short, etc.), as well as the amount of time it took to run the race, and the number of laps in the race.

-It was possible that driving controls (throttle, brake, shifting, etc.) would not be enabled when you got into your car, even though all controls were properly calibrated and assigned. The problem was most likely to occur while the chat pad was open, but could occur at any time This has been fixed.