PC games on XP

Radisichrox · 22 Apr 2003, 19:00 (Ref:576846)

I just ordered a new computer from HP, with a great video card, sound card, ram, ect. It has Windows XP on it, and I'm wondering if my games like Grand Prix Legends, GP3, Colin McRae Rally 2 will work on it.:confused: Thanks.

Logrence · 22 Apr 2003, 19:07 (Ref:576857)

GP3 works on XP. GP3 2000 doesn't.

Colin McRae the original game works on it - should assume that no. 2 would.

Don't know about GP Legends - haven't got it. (sacrilege!)

Radisichrox · 22 Apr 2003, 19:12 (Ref:576868)

That's good. I do recall some people on the board talking about GPL on XP. But as for CMR2 and GP3 thats good news.

I don't have CMR2 yet, i ordered it from Codemasters three weeks ago and still haven't gotten it yet! Their website says its backordered but I don't understand that it would take three weeks to get another batch of them!

rdjones · 22 Apr 2003, 20:28 (Ref:577003)

GPL on XP - no problems here.......

**Aysedasi** · 22 Apr 2003, 21:09 (Ref:577153)

It does seem that some people have trouble with GPL on XP, but I run XP Pro and have no problems at all.

pirenzo · 22 Apr 2003, 21:21 (Ref:577194)

I have XP, and occassionally, GPL does go a bit wonky on me, but i think that has more to do with my editing than XP

**Aysedasi** · 23 Apr 2003, 06:52 (Ref:577654)

One thing to bear in mind is that GPL was (obviously) not designed to work on XP. Win98 is the perfect platform for GPL and you can create a Win98 partition just to run GPL on - if you're so minded. The only problem I had with XP was when I first installed GPL, somehow I set it to run in Win98 compatibility mode. Don't make that mistake - it runs at an incorrect speed and then the speedfix doesn't work properly.

ASCII Man · 23 Apr 2003, 07:00 (Ref:577664)

No problems with GP3, GP4 or GPL on my XP Pro machine.

spanner · 23 Apr 2003, 12:42 (Ref:577960)

After i upgraded to XP CMR2 has lost the force feedback. Is this just me?

Radisichrox · 23 Apr 2003, 14:06 (Ref:578053)

Okay, thanks for the help, hopefully the new system will allow me to play these games!

Red · 1 May 2003, 09:14 (Ref:585988)

Quote:

Originally posted by Radisichrox
I just ordered a new computer from HP, with a great video card, sound card,

From HP? You mean Hewlett-Packard? Are you sure? I was the greatest HP fan ever, but since the HP-Compaq merger, to say that I'm dissapointed is an euphemism. I'm completely

- off. They addopted all Compaq cheap models (no different from no-names, other than being pricey) and dumped the fine models they used to manufacture a couple of years ago. Shame on them.

**Aysedasi** · 1 May 2003, 12:23 (Ref:586165)

Well, I acquired an HP printer (reasonable spec) about 6 months ago after my Samsung (yes, Samsung!) printer died a horrible death. As far as I'm concerned, its excellent.

Don't know anything about their computers though.....

Radisichrox · 1 May 2003, 20:23 (Ref:586659)

Quote:

Originally posted by Red
From HP? You mean Hewlett-Packard? Are you sure? I was the greatest HP fan ever, but since the HP-Compaq merger, to say that I'm dissapointed is an euphemism. I'm completely - off. They addopted all Compaq cheap models (no different from no-names, other than being pricey) and dumped the fine models they used to manufacture a couple of years ago. Shame on them.

Yeah, I've heard mixed reviews about HPs. While one of uncles has or had one and it looked like garbage, I trust that it should be pretty good. Besides, God forbid if anything breaks or fails on the machine I have some friends who do "under the table" repairs and tinker with building computers, so i'm good in that department. But most importantly the price was right for what I wanted ($734) and Dell and Gateway were charging something like 1200-1300. I simply can't afford that kind of price, so HP had the deal.

By the way, if anybody cares, CMR2 has finally shipped after weeks of waiting.

Hopefully it will be good~!

**Aysedasi** · 2 May 2003, 07:25 (Ref:587014)

I must confess, I have no great interest in the after-sales stuff, as I am reasonably useful in sorting out things myself and I also have a friendly expert who helps me out when my knowledge and skills let me down.

Radisichrox · 2 May 2003, 19:36 (Ref:587892)

Yeah, I'm with you but at the same time if the part is going to improve the performance of the machine and if the price is right I'll take it, hands down. (Not to say I spend all my money on computers...)

MichaelH · 3 May 2003, 18:38 (Ref:588634)

CM2 judders a little still on my (XP) computer.....

Radisichrox · 8 May 2003, 23:39 (Ref:594085)

Well, the machine has come and I am pleased to announce that CMR2 does work on my computer. When you have a brand new computer and an awesome steering wheel there's nothing better in the gaming world!

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