Game speed

[aaron685]

Does anyone have any idea on how to speed up the races I know I could just simulate the races but I like watching them play out problem is it’s painfully slow 

[manuel]

There is a speedup tool, you can do the races with 500% speed than. maybe someone at the board have a link, i dont have it in my gpw folder on my server.

[aaron685]

I tried that didn’t make much difference... I thought I seen someone mention something about a ddraw fix not sure what that does though

[manuel]

ah ok! then your speed trouble is related to your framerate.
The ddraw fix is a fix for old Games and can improve the framerate. For me, it works quite well! It improved my framerate alot. Others report that the game wont start anymore after using the fix. But it is worth a try! You can download it from my server: gpmo.eu/gpw/ just download the ddraw.zip and unzip it into your GPW folder. Try, and be happy if it helps!

[alain]

Hi all, thank you for keeping this great game alive. I have the same speed issue. The speedup tool which is supposed to X500 3d race don't seem to work anymore.
I am on Win 10 and the game works superbly otherwise, Meanie's 2020 mod looks great too, thanks!
Any advice would be welcome.

[manuel]

Is realy the speed the problem, or the framerate like aarons problem?

[alain]

Thanks Manuel for your reply, it's the game speed while watching 3d races.
The framerate is fine and the game plays absolutely great.
You probably knwo it, by default the game can speed up the 3d races up to X150. The speedup patch used to let the player speed up to x500, which would let you speeding up the race there and there, and then switch back to normal speed. This patch don't seem to work anymore with versions of the game that may have been modified to work on recent OSs.

[manuel]

thats possible. ive never tested the speedup nowdays with the mods. as far as i can remember, if you go under 150% speed, youre not able anymore to get over the 150%. i always has to restart the game then