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GP500

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GP500
GP500 cover
Developers
Melbourne House
Publishers
Hasbro Interactive
Release dates
Windows October 13, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
GP500 on IGDB
GP500 on MobyGames
GP500 on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

GP500 is a singleplayer and multiplayer game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Monetization

No monetization information; you can edit this page to add it.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None


Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
sensitivity and deadzone adjustments are for steering only
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
can be assigned as gamepad or joystick
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

Game framedrops/speedups/freeze

Due to an issue with clockspeed, the game will begin losing frames within minutes of startup regardless of compatibility mode settings. It can regain frames at an exceedingly accelerated rate shortly after but it will always lead to a freeze.

Issues fixed

Game doesn't load on 32/64bit Windows OS

Use dgVoodoo2 + gp500_win2k.exe
  1. Install game and update1 to bring game to version 1.0.1185a
  2. Download gp500_win2k.exe and place it in GP500's installation folder
  3. Set gp500_win2k.exe to Windows 98/ME compatibility and 16-bit color mode
  4. Download and setup dgVoodoo 2
  5. Unzip dgvoodoo_2.xx and copy dgVoodooCpl or dgVoodoosetup.exe from main folder, then D3D9.dll, which will allow 1920x1440 32bit, D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll , and DDraw.dll files from the MS/x86 subfolder into GP500's installation folder
  6. Run dgvoodoo.exe, configure General tab to have Full Screen with Stretched, Keep Aspect Ratio
  7. On DirectX tab, set dgvoodoo virtual 3D card, 512mb, 1920x1440 resolution, Application Controlled State, and Fast Memory Access. Apply.
  8. Run the game through gp500_win2k.exe

Notes:

It is possible you may need to set gp500_win2k.exe to Windows XP SP3 compatibility if the game crashes
dgvoodoo is not mandatory but it provides a smoother experience, though frame slowdown still takes place
There have been two .exe modifications made to allow the game to run on Vista or later operating systems. One is GP500Core2.exe and it can be run with Compatibility Mode to Windows 7 without further adjustments or dgvoodoo
Not necessary but replacing GP500.exe with a "noCD" .exe has no negative repercussion

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Glide
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]

References