Anybody ever make one of these? I might want to get back into playing GPL
offline (and perhaps online), but I can't stand the letterbox effect,
especially as my new monitor doesn't have a zoom mode.

How do people get the nice videos and screenshots of GPL without the
letterbox?

OK, one more question. Has anybody made any "pre-chicane" tracks for F1
Championship? I really like the older tracks.

magnulus wrote:
Guru made some mods to minimise/eliminate it.

You'll have to search the RSC forums.

"Kevin Clark" <kevin.clark (AT) NOSPAMMAGEimm (DOT) ox.ac.uk> wrote


http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=34383

Malc.

"Malc" <malc (AT) belper (DOT) plus.con> wrote

OK, I will have to try that out when I re-install GPL.

Has anybody got any good mods for this game yet, such as tweaks to the
tire grip?

magnulus wrote:

What you see is what you get with regards to grip.

There is a 1965 mod though which is easier to drive because the cars
dont have quite as much power. http://55and65.speedgeezers.com/gpl65/
Be sure to get some 65 setups as the defaults are for 67 and will
seriously stunt the performance.

thanks to Gurus dlls I just improved from 1152x 862 to 1600 x 900...
recommend it!

It doesn't seem to get rid of the letterboxing. There's a 16:9 rectangle
in the middle of my screen. All it does is allow different resolutions. Am
I doing something wrong?

"magnulus" <magnulus (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

If you want to make the black bars as small as possible you'll need to
select a tall (rather than widescreen) resolution & adjust your monitor
to correct the distortion. The end result will be that most of the black
bars will be drawn off the top & bottom of your monitor, but you need to
keep some of it visible so you can see the chat & other information.

There is no way to simply not have the black bars, but you can make the
main viewing area fill more of the screen. There are a few FOV utils you
can use to get the viewing angle you want too.

Personally I don't mind the black bars, I prefer to think of it as
giving me a wider viewing angle rather than restricting the top & bottom
view. All you'd see is more cockpit (or road behind the car) and more
sky anyway.

Malc.

"magnulus" <magnulus (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

European flavor..

If you removed the LB areas, you would miss stuff that is displayed in those
areas. Its not really a 16:9 game, but a 4:3 game with a letterboxed
driving screen. The black areas are still used for certain things.

Malc wrote:
Oh boy, up to now this problem was limited to the dvd groups.
"Baaah, I want my frickin' screen filled!! Damn widescreen movies!!!"

Imagine watching LotR with about 40% of the picture missing...

l8er
ronny