Grand Prix 4 is a computer game that simulates the 2001 season of Formula 1, launched in 2002 by MicroProse.Since the launch of the first of the Grand Prix series in 1992 (in 1991 for the AMIGA in 1992 for the PC) were more than 2 million units sold around the world, forming a legion of followers. The game, carefully crafted bit by bit by its creator, Geoff Crammond is a great simulator. Grand Prix 4 is a computer game that simulates the 2001 season of Formula 1, launched in 2002 by MicroProse.Since the launch of the first of the Grand Prix series in 1992 (in 1991 for the AMIGA in 1992 for the PC) were more than 2 million units sold around the world, forming a legion of followers. Grand Prix 4 free download - Grand Prix 3 demo, Grand Theft Auto, SWAT 4, and many more programs.
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Read Full ReviewMicroprose's Geoff Crammond knows a thing or two about creating decent racing simulations, a fact showcased by his sterling work from Revs all the way up to Grand Prix 3. At the same time, Microprose's publisher Hasbro knows a thing or two about milking a product for all it's worth, as we saw with the pitiful GP3 2000 Season Update.
GP4 carries the hallmarks of both these traits. Open the box and you'll find a solid racing simulation that has been developed firmly upon the GP3 / GP32K foundation. While the in-game mechanics are virtually unchanged, you'll also find that some of the weaknesses have carried over in the process, and long time fans may feel that there has not been enough of a progression to warrant paying another £30.
The GP4 experience gets off to a good start with the new interface styling, a swirly hi-tech affair that looks miles better than the previous photo-laden backgrounds from GP2 and 3. The menus retain the depth of options we're used to from previous editions, including the standard quick race, non-championship race, full championship etc., plus there's a little novelty in the quick laps option that made its debut in the GP32K add-on. This mode lets up to 22 drivers shoot it out for the fastest qualifying time, feeling like a rally-style competition around a grand prix circuit. The GP series has always catered for multiplayer 'hotseat' racing on a single PC, and this neat little extension is the next best option to split-screen play.
Heading out onto the track for the first time, you'll be hit by a triple-whammy of surprises. First, you're greeted by the sight of fully animated mechanics lowering your car and indicating that it's clear to drive into the pit lane. The second surprise is the quality of the graphics. Unlike the cartoony effect in the EA F1 games, GP4 goes for a clinical pseudo-photorealism and pulls it off with sharply defined objects, smooth textures and panoramic backdrops. Monaco is the perennial showcase of an F1 sim's graphical ability, and GP4 genuinely exceeds itself here - the detailing on everything from the casino to the docked yachts is nothing short of remarkable.
The third is the gorgeous engine note. Apparently sampled from the Arrows F1 Ford Cosworth, it comes across as raspy and seriously powerful. It's also completely different to the screaming samples in F1 2002. It's hard to say which is more realistic, but they both sound fantastic.
Every F1 game claims to employ GPS data to model the tracks, and every new incarnation seems to get closer and closer to the real thing (at least, as we see it on TV). GP4 is no exception, and the new breed of tracks feature more pronounced dips, crests and road camber changes (bankings) than those in GP3. All 2001 changes like the re-profiling of chicanes at Monza and the lower kerbs at Hungary are also present. F1 2002 is just as accurate but it exaggerates effects like bumps. That aside, the casual fan will notice little difference between the two.
Whilst F1 2002 goes out for maximum frills per cc, GP4 is good at doing the important things well, and in some areas it mops the floor with the opposition. The AI, already impressive in GP3, is simply stunning here. Negotiating starts is a fraught affair, with the cars possessing an uncanny spatial awareness and ability to take your space without crashing into you. The 2001 season traits have been modelled well, and often the Schumacher brothers will take the fight for the lead into the distance. In one race at Monza, Jarno Trulli tried an ill-fated out-braking manoeuvre on Ralf Schumacher's BMW Williams into Turn 1, sending them both into the gravel. Great stuff!
Equally wonderful are the replays, thanks to the replay editor first introduced in the GP32K add-on. Geoff Crammond has a creepy knack of replicating TV camera angles and the placements are simply perfect. To see the cars jostling for position down towards Les Combes at the end of the long Spa straight, or seeing them spear through Eau Rouge from a camera at the bottom of the hill, or to watch the AI battles courtesy of the 'directors cut' mode, is to witness PC racing perfection. F1 2002 doesn't even come close.
Another GP4 forte is the variable weather. This was one of the aces in the pack in GP3, and GP4 enhances it with its improved graphics (we finally get the raindrops-on-the-camera-lens effect for the first time!). Controlling an aquaplaning car in the wet is GP4's ultimate challenge, and it's sometimes worth following the AI until you get the hang of it. The informative force feedback comes into its own here. Grip? No grip? You can feel it in an instant.
GP4 retains the high fidelity telemetry and setup options that have been a hallmark (and a joy to serious simheads) throughout the series, and couples them to the improvements from the GP32K add-on. Every advanced setup option is now linked to an integrated GPaedia (which comes with informative video clips from Arrows Test Team Manager Mark Hemsworth), providing much needed guidance for relative newcomers, whilst seasoned pros have a new toy to tweak with, in the form of the differential.
Unusually for a Microprose sim, GP4 makes some concessions to the casual player by introducing some snazzy eye-candy. The animated pit crew is one such feature, as are the animated track marshals and spectators, and the fully functional car-mounted TV display that lets you track the qualifying session (who needs Sky Digital when you've got this?). For those of you put off by the claustrophobic cockpit view, GP4 features new roll-bar and chase-car camera views that come complete with digital displays and a dinky little Rally Championship-style track map.
Bearing in mind that much of the above is already available in the GP32K add-on, there are a few other problems. The new style menus, for instance, are a pain to navigate, a good case in point being the once-clear all-inclusive car setup screens having been split into several sub-menus. In addition, GP4 uses your game controller to navigate the menus, but it couldn't properly calibrate our MS Force Feedback Wheel and this led to a lot of frantic cursor chasing. The game is also buggy, at least under Windows XP, where it would frequently crash back to the desktop on our test machine.
GP4's main competitor, F1 2002, contains several exciting features like separate car performance characteristics and cockpit designs for each team, smarter driver aids and a training school facility to help get to grips with the car handling, along with the 2002 season data. The car physics feel more realistic too. GP4's cars are stable and predictable, even with the driver aids switched off. The F1 2002 breed is considerably more dynamic and exhilarating, with the superb driver feedback letting you feel for and control the power-induced slides.
Finally, the graphics engine powering GP4 exhibits the same problems as the one in GP2, dating all the way back to 1996, despite supposedly being completely new. Unlike in other games where overloading the processor leads to jerky framerates, GP games attempt to artificially compensate to provide a continually smooth frame. The result, though, is that a game simulating a car at speeds of 150mph in the rain somehow manages to look like it's really simulating 15mph, and adjusting detail levels hasn't helped. EA's title in comparison maintains a super fast speed throughout.
Whilst we gave GP3 the benefit of the doubt two years ago, the competition has advanced leaps and bounds since. GP4 has a limited scope and attempts to do its job well, but is let down by a lack of innovation and a gutless graphics engine. F1 2002 meanwhile very nearly matches the quality of the GP4 core features and also advances the genre further with its technically superior game engine and inventiveness. GP4 is worth a look, offering a rock-solid racing experience against some well-crafted AI, but it doesn't add anything significantly new. As a result, it only fully justifies its price tag for Microprose completists and those with very high spec machines.
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Bikkebakke2021-04-140 point
Petepeter:
run with Windows 200 compatability !
RYZEN2021-03-260 point
Will this game work with a modern wheel? i really like it and would love to play it with my wheel
help me pls2021-03-201 point
the game works its just that the controls are dumb! the original controls for keyboard are already stupid enough but I cant change the controls myself! please help me out thanks.
bakerace2021-03-200 point
Jim, tried your solution and it's not working for me using vista. Any help please?
Diabolical Jim2021-03-188 points
Okay folks, so you don't make the same mistake I did, and try unsuccessfully to install the game, here's what you do. Download the 'Full RIP Pre Patched 512MB' file. Unzip, or just drag the 'Grand Prix 4' directory from the zip file, to the location of your choice (in my case it was J:Games), and then create a shortcut on your desktop to GP4.exe located in said 'Grand Prix 4' directory. Double click the shortcut, and play the game. I did adjust the screen res from the default 1024x768, upped all the graphic details, and turned down the music, and that was all I needed to do to enjoy some old school GP racing.
Argon2021-03-145 points
I put the NOCD to my game but its still wanted the CD, what shoud i do?
Chris Schönfeld2021-03-10-5 points
My Formula 1
Monaco Grand Prix Racing Simulation 2 and Racing Simulation 3 and F1 Racing Championship.
No Crammond
Chris Schönfeld2021-02-10-7 points
Crammond is a Stinker
Monaco Grand Prix Performt wirklich vom aller feinsten.
3 XP Systeme, AMD FX 4100 und zwei Athlon, 5000 und 6000+, 3x 6670, Saitek PS 2700 und 3x P1500 Gamepads. 2x NEC Multisync LCD 1970NX. 1x Fujitsu Siemens Szenicfiew P19-2, 1x dell ultrasharp 1908fpt. 1x NEC Multisync LCD 1760NX. Extreme 500, Superbike World Championship, Superbike 2000 und 2001. Mercedes Benz Truck Racing, Monaco Grand Prix und F1 Racing Championship.
PetePeter2021-02-051 point
I've installed it, patched it, and applied the NoCD patch. Does anyone know how to get it to work properly in Win10? What compatibility settings are needed? Thanks
BULLy2020-11-143 points
@GREG Please try to be more supportive of others next time. We are all gamers and can learn from each other.
@MAKO An ISO is an image of a cd or set of files in a similar way as a ZIP compressed folder. You should be able to 'mount' the image in a Virtual CD drive, and run it as if you had the real disc in.
Greg2020-10-28-10 points
for MAKO Comment: GP4 DOESN'T NEED DOSBOX YOUR IDIOT!
nicorock2020-07-271 point
Gracias ! I love you !
GP2engine2020-07-012 points
Hey, when I click on 'setup' for the installation it says 'Setup failes to launch installation engine: not registered class'. And when I tried 'Autorun' and clicked on 'Installation' it just do nothing. Any ideas on what should I do?
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RubyVolt2020-06-091 point
Thank you for putting the NOCD file. After burning and installing the ISO, just copy the NOCD over the original and race.
supertomcat2020-06-084 points
Also try the no cd at the bottom and then put the patch if that doesn't work. I may do a step by step guide.
supertomcat2020-06-082 points
download the pre-patched rip version instead
RubyVolt2020-06-070 point
I downloaded, burned with Nero, installed. When I try to run, it says, 'put in the CD' when the CD is in there. OH WELL....
supertomcat2020-06-071 point
Get an iso mounter and if you have windows it should work. (this is a windows game not dos) If it doesn't work on windows 10 set up a virtual machine running Xp
MAKO2020-06-070 point
So, this is my first time downloading a game. I'm stuck and I'm not being able to play it. How do you run iso? I'm trying with DOSBox but it never works...
sa2020-05-301 point
thanks for everything
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So it is with the fourth of the long-running and long-admired Grand Prix series from F1 simulation maestro Geoff Crammond. Not much has changed regarding the actual game, but this time it all comes packaged with a handy in-game F1 DIY guide called the Gpedia.
The idea is that it takes you through all of the horrendously complex car tuning options with step-by-step guides to adjusting your bumpers and flattening your wings and so on, During the preview stages it all sounded like the greatest thing to hit F1 games in years. Can you guess what happens next?
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Something must have got lost in the translation somewhere along the line because the much heralded Gpedia turns out to be little more than an in-game manual. It’s certainly no more informative than any of the printed ones that come with every other F1 game out there, except with amateur video footage accompanying the text that makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like an Oscar-worthy masterpiece.
But let's not allow that to 1 distract us. We ' didn’t come here to read about Formula One, we came here to live it. And I’m happy to report that on the simulation side of things, Grand Prix 4 is about as perfect a driving experience as it’s currently possible to get without strapping yourself to David Coulthard’s ample chin. The feeling of control is far superior to that offered in F1 2002,GP4's nearest rival, with vastly improved handling and a greater range of tune-up options.
The sense of racing is also much better than anything we’ve had before, with Al that on the whole does a grand job of giving you the impression of being in a real battle for the chequered flag. That said, there are a few flies in the ointment of realism. For example, spin out of control and end up lying across the path of another driver and will they reverse back then steer around your prone car? No, apparently Mika Hakkinen (sadly the teams and drivers are all last seasons) would prefer to continually nudge your car’s chassis for half an hour, until the marshals run on to drag you away - marshals who, incidentally, have both balls and bodies of steel as they’ll happily run onto the track as other cars scream past at a zillion miles per hour (or 1.6 zillion km per hour if you’re feeling metric) before attaching you to the invisible cranes by the side of each track.
There are other questions too. Why are all the driver and team names in lower case?Why can only save changes to the game’s set-up optionswhen choose to quit the game? Why can’t change my keyboard set-up mid race? Why is there no instant restart for a quick race? Why can't choose what data is displayed on the steering wheel readout? Why does your pit crew tell you the road is clear for you to pull out of the garage despite the fact that there are four other cars all accelerating in your direction? Why? Why? Why?
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The emphasis being on simulation over gameplay throws up other problems. What if you want the accuracy but don’t want to drive for either Ferrari, Williams or McLaren? Without the option for team improvement over seasons, either through the purchase or development of better equipment, you’re not really going to have much chance of success if you opt to drive for one of the smaller teams such as Minardi or BAR, no matter how much you tinker with the spring stiffness or ride height.
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And what about the sense of achievement or reward? Certainly, there’s a feeling of progress as you get to grips with each track, learn each corner and push the speed envelope a little further with each lap. But a brief, generic animation sequence after a race doesn’t really offer any major incentive to keep plugging away. You don’t even get a grid walk before a race - practically a staple for any F1 game.
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What we’re still not getting, despite all the authenticity shown in the driving side of the game, is a true sense of being a F1 driver. It’s all too easy to get carried away praising the accuracy of the simulation that Crammond has produced here, hailing GP4 as the finest driving game of all time and that, but F1 is about more than just the driving.
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If I’ve sounded rather negative throughout this review it’s only because this could have - no, deserves to have been the definitive F1 game on the market. You can’t ask for a finer pedigree than Geoff Crammond, and from a simulation point of view there’s nothing to touch Grand Prix 4. Absolutely the best, no question. But gameplay, people. Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay.
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This whole genre needs a shot in the arm if it’s going to start appealing to an audience beyond obsessive F1 petrolheads. Otherwise all you’re getting with each new game is little more than a graphical and statistics update (see panel). I have absolutely no interest in the American sport of TOCA racing. None. But the imminent new TOCA game has my attention, perhaps more than any other driving game out there, simply because it’s attempting something new with its story and career-based gameplay.
That’s the lesson F1 developers need to learn. We don't just want to compete with Michael Schumacher on the track, we want to compete with him off the track as well. Don’t just make us drive. Make us care. Saying that, though, GP4 is top of the pile. Graphically lush, anally detailed (the telemetry options alone are staggeringly comprehensive, not to mention the car setup options) and with some of the best Al to date, it edges out EA's offering for pole position. You won’t find a more accurate racing sim anywhere, and no F1 fan should be without a copy. Let’s just hope that next time, Crammond and co put some soul into what's an otherwise superb simulation.