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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v15.2.0 by GTR233 and friends |
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Archive size = 496 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = 0c47ddd549e112dd36188119ccccfebd
Disk space requirement : 1.65 Go for this patch which is bigger than base game (+1.64 Go for base game = 3.29 Go free space required)
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
IMPORTANT :
- PLEASE READ BOTH "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install" otherwise you will cry "HELP GTR2 CRASHED!!!"
- THIS PATCH IS NOT PAYWARE : YOU JUST NEED A FREE REGISTRATION TO RACEDEPARTMENT.COM! You can create a free gmail address in 1 minute, then create a FREE account at RD (paid subscription is only an OPTION), then LOG IN RD with your new account and DOWNLOAD any mod for FREE !
- NO, THERE IS NO VIRUS IN THIS PATCH AT RACEDEPARTMENT.COM WHICH IS THE ONLY ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS MOD AND THE SAFEST PLACE TO DOWNLOAD MODS (submit my archive on VIRUSTOTAL.COM to check by yourself)...But you can get a virus if you download a copy elsewhere on internet! In order to avoid virus, simply BUY genuine GTR2 DVD or STEAM digital then download and install GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch from RACEDEPARTMENT.COM and RUN GTR2_SETUP* to set options, THAT's ALL : YOU WILL GET EXACTLY THE SAME GTR2 HQ GAME WHETHER YOU HAVE DVD OR STEAM! YOU NEED NOTHING ELSE BECAUSE OFFICIAL SIMBIN PATCHES + GREY CARS PATCH + 4GB PATCH + ALL FIXES DURING 14 YEARS + HQ TEXTURES ARE INCLUDED!!!
THANK YOU.
(*) GTR2_SETUP may require few minutes after installation to work because new files structure must be learned by Windows, and it takes longer if you deactivated Windows Search Index. Moreover, depending on which directory you have installed GTR2, you may need to run GTR2_SETUP as Administrator (right click on GTR2_SETUP.CMD then left click "Run as Administrator") otherwise GTR2_SETUP may have insufficient privileges to delete-copy-overwrite files.
Last Changelog
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v15.2.0
- added CHOICE.EXE command to make GTR2_SETUP.CMD work with Windows XP/NT too (this command is natively available in all windows versions except Windows XP/NT)
- added binkw32.dll for people reporting windows message error about this file
- added Microsoft VCredist2010 files to make work RaceRoom/Steam Digital binary because noobs don't read my install instructions
- updated GTR2_SETUP : added tyres option for 2005 mod, added wipers ON/OFF option for 2005/TrofeoNitro mods too (will be updated with HQ cars if mods are present), reworked pages XX/XXI/XXX in order to make base cars option and driving school cars option independant (now you can still use base cars in driving school even if base cars are disabled)
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v15.2.0 : fixed 14 years old Mosler chassis2B distorted 3D mesh, updated wipers for better animation, fixed Valencia RReflect70, added some AIW fixes and Spa tents fixes (thanks to Maxellero)
- updated HQ CUBE MAPS to v8.0 : 4 levels of intensity and 2 versions with (forest) or without (desert) trees on road side, so 8 different sets now !
- updated GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v12.1 : updated some skins and bik video
- updated legal screen
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 15 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Non exhaustive list of fixes in HQ Cars&Tracks (all these bugs are present in Original GTR2 + Official SimBin patch 1.1 !!!) :
- fixed bad engine sound location in some cars
- fixed bad driver/hands/feet positions in some cars
- fixed BMW_MCOUPE_CHASSIS_A.GMT
- fixed MC12 steering wheel in showroom
- fixed Anderstorp/Donington/Dubai/Monza/Enna max vehicles
- fixed Donington pitcrew position
- fixed Oschersleben safety car position which blocked cars pit exit
- fixed Oschersleben invisible start lights box
- fixed AI qualification/race speed huge gap
- fixed Viper Roos Optima wheels style
- fixed GDB championships (skip Qualif.1 to avoid random grid bug)
- fixed BMW M3GTR CPIT03 MASK
- fixed Chrysler Viper Zwann's cockpit
- fixed F575 BODY MASK
- fixed MAGNETTI MT940 SURROUND MASK
- fixed 996 INTERIOR3
- fixed Viper GTS-R rear lights bloom
- fixed F550/F575 steering wheels
- fixed safety car roof lights
- fixed Lamborghini masks
- fixed TVR masks
- fixed dash redlights misalignment (MC12, 993, 996RS-RSR)
- fixed wrong tyres for 993GT2 Proton Competition (Yokohama and not Dunlop)
- fixed 996 RS 03072 Seikel Motor Sport logo on side wing
- fixed 996 RS 03085 JVG exhausts transparency
- fixed 996 R 03061 EMKA GT3 R logo on back
- fixed 996 RS 04105 Emeraude Racing skin and wheels
- fixed Mosler rear lights
- fixed Stack LCD glitch (PRACTICE/WARMUP/RACE were randomly displayed over laptime)
- fixed Gillet shoulders in mirror
- fixed 996GT2BT gearbox
- fixed Seat toledo gearbox
- fixed F360 spin when downshifting from 2nd to 1st gear
- fixed F360 03052/03053 wrong tyres (Pirelli and not Dunlop)
- fixed F550 Wieth wrong tyres (Dunlop and not Pirelli)
- fixed M3GTR cube maps in mirrors
- fixed F575 wrong cube maps on steering wheels
- fixed RSR hood/door misalignment
- fixed TVR rain screen wrong direction (rain falls from top to bottom and not right to left)
- fixed mosler wrong cube maps in cockpit
- fixed 350z cockpit/banner
- fixed 996GT2 chassis style2 black polygon
- fixed tracks black polygons
- fixed shaders
- fixed unfair AI tyre wear in default game where AI can keep tyres longer than player
- fixed crazy damage bug for viper GTS-R
- fixed all brake discs size/position, disc glow and added nice aluminium reflection on every brake disc
- fixed radiator opening reversed values
- fixed Z3/Lotus/C5R/viperCC/F360/F550/lambo/lister/morgan/mosler/GT3Cup-RS/saleen missing wing shadow
- fixed Viper rear shadow bug by night
- fixed TVR rear shadow bug by night
- fixed BMW M/F360/Lambo/Lotus slick tread always ON : now you will see intermediate/hard wet/soft wet tread too
- fixed BMW M3 GTR too dark tread
- fixed wheel ffb clipping for some cars and central dead zone
- fixed Corvette C5R steering wheel position to see oil pressure needle
- fixed Seat toledo steering wheel black polygon
- fixed Viper Roos broken LCD gear indicator and enabled it for all Vipers
- fixed F575 center mirror (image is no more deformed and tiny holes have been removed)
- fixed Murcielago mirrors (removed abnormal cube map reflection)
- fixed MC12 motec bug : removed the black polygon and made the RPM lights work
- fixed F360 cockpit glitches (fixed roof blurry texture, fixed misspelling "IGNITION", fixed "PULL" misalignment)
- fixed F550 Wieth anti-roll bars wrong spec map
- fixed Saleen broken RPM lights
- fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT
- fixed Vertigo gear display position for better visibility
- fixed corvette black polygon on right door
- fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
- fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
- fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
- fixed broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
- fixed chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
- fixed center mirror in 350z
- fixed Lotus Elise mirrors position and wiper glitch in cockpit
- fixed Morgan broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth deformed mirrors
- fixed Anderstorp weed
- fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures
- fixed fake gauges in F550 cockpit with real working ones
- fixed broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- fixed C5.R rollcage top front bar which was too low and too big
- fixed headlights flickering and added White/Yellow/Endurance styles
- fixed non working endurance lights for RS#160/RSR#66
- fixed hockenheim speed limiter bug on pit exit
- fixed Barcelona flickering pit walk under rain
- fixed missing ExtDriver-ShiftR_M.LMA/ExtDriver-ShiftL_M.LMA driver animations
- fixed rain bug in TVR cockpit doors
Plus,
- increased resistance to damages to prevent AI to pit in for small aero damages
- increased driver seat position range (use LEFT or RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON then drag mouse to adjust view)
- removed bump maps from Morgan/ViperCC/350Z cockpits because of cartoon/plastic effect
- removed spa invisible wall in pits
- updated Enna tyres stack with moving ones
- updated 996CUP #123/124 ugly safety net with nicer one from ViperCC
- updated 996 RS with 3 styles : Motec+H gearbox / Motec+Seq gearbox / Stack+H gearbox
- updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts, display and cube maps, added red zone to Stack and added rev limit to MoTeC
- added 996 GT3 R versions
- added missing motec line : now available in ALL cars (cycles show lap time, oil/water/tyres/brakes temperatures)
- added specific Ferrari/Porsche brakes
- added missing #109 Porsche GT3 CUP from 24h Spa 2003 event
- added laptimer to all cars with flags/pit icons
- added missing safety net in #108 C5R cockpit
- added wipers and dirt/rain effects on side windows
Usage Disclaimer :
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This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
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There are 2 possibilities because there are 2 different binaries : VR will work for both but your VR experience will be much better with -2-
-1- for NOCD binary :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...www.racedepartment.com
-2- for RaceRoom digital binary or original STEAM version : The Iron Wolf and his team have released in nov-2020 CrewChief (CC) for GTR2 which also brings NATIVE VR with an improved VR experience so go to TheCrewChief.org to get it
CTD TRACE FILE
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this GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch, and GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION as well, have been deeply tested and will never cause Crash-To-Desktop (CTD) but one day you might install other mods which will make GTR2 crash (especially if they overwrite STEX.GTR and TEAMMAPS2.GTR from this patch!!!). If CTD happens then launch GTR2 with "GTR2_DEBUG.cmd" to get more info about the CTD.
Credits (alphabetical order) :
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6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate, F550 analog gauges, and #66RSR endurance lights
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
J-Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 from Spa 2003, AIW pit entrance fixes and some Spa tents fixes
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in RaceOn
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, new gfx shaders, plugins/binary patches
Teddie Tapawan for realistic Pit Chief voice
The Iron Wolf for reporting memory leak in original DucFreak UI MOD and help to fix it, plus amazing work on CrewChief for GTR2
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
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Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, gwaldock, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, PiotrGT, RaceLM24, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2021.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v15.1.1 by GTR233 and friends |
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This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 498 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = 844e1a8a822378829b11b7c2eb9ff2ed
IMPORTANT :
- PLEASE READ BOTH "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install" otherwise you will cry "HELP!!!"
- THIS PATCH IS NOT PAYWARE : YOU JUST NEED A FREE REGISTRATION TO RACEDEPARTMENT.COM! You can create a gmail address in 1 minute if you don't want to give your personal mail, then create a FREE account at RD (paid subscription is only an OPTION if you want to race online), then LOG IN RD with your new account and DOWNLOAD any mod for FREE !
- NO, CONTRARY TO WHAT I READ ON STEAM FORUM FROM STUPID PEOPLE, THERE IS NO VIRUS IN THIS PATCH AT RACEDEPARTMENT.COM WHICH IS THE ONLY ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS MOD AND THE SAFEST PLACE TO DOWNLOAD MODS (submit my archive on VIRUSTOTAL.COM to check by yourself)...But of course, you can get a virus if you download a copy of my mod somewhere else on internet because archives can be easily infected! If stupid people on Steam forum say that HQ Anniversary Patch is a virus, or doesn't fix grey cars, or doesn't work on Windows10 then please copy-paste this answer "STOP SAYING BULLSHITS AND GO TO RACEDEPARTMENT!". In order to avoid virus, simply buy genuine GTR2 DVD or STEAM digital then download and install GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch from RACEDEPARTMENT.COM and RUN GTR2_SETUP.CMD to set options, THAT's ALL : YOU WILL GET EXACTLY THE SAME GTR2 HQ GAME WHETHER YOU HAVE DVD OR STEAM! YOU NEED NOTHING ELSE BECAUSE OFFICIAL SIMBIN PATCHES + GREY CARS PATCH + 4GB PATCH + ALL FIXES DURING 14 YEARS + HQ TEXTURES ARE INCLUDED!!!
THANK YOU.
(*) GTR2_SETUP requires few seconds or minutes after installation to work properly because new folders tree structure must be learned by your OS, and it takes longer if you deactivated Windows Search Index (windows builds index database during idle/screensaver). Moreover, depending on which system partition you have installed GTR2, you may need to run GTR2_SETUP as Administrator (right click on GTR2_SETUP.CMD then left click "Run as Administrator") otherwise it may have insufficient privileges to delete-copy-overwrite files. That's why I recommend TO NOT install GTR2 in c:\program files or c:\programs or c:\windows or c:\users. And NO there is no virus in GTR2_SETUP.CMD : you can open it with notepad and check by yourself the 7000 lines I typed with my little fingers.
Last Changelog
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v15.1.0 (changelog may look small but, believe me, workload was huge : this is the first time within 14 years than someone releases wiper animation for all GTR2 cars and with rain effect on side windows!)
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v15.1.0 : added WIPER ANIMATION for all HQ cars (thanks to ArmedLightning for his nice raindrops and to my beta testers, especially Bjarne, gwaldock, Kenny Paton, and Jempy for useful feedback), fixed 14 years old rain bug in TVR cockpit doors
- updated GTR2_SETUP.CMD (33 pages now!) : added HQ2021 physics/tyres/talents with AFSC TinyTweak by AndreasFSC, added option to enable/disable wiper animation for HQ cars (wipers require a powerful PC especially by night)
- updated legal screen
v15.1.1
- updated GTR2_SETUP : fixed wrong folder name for FRONT-REAR headlights mod, set HQ cars in driving school by default when you deactivate base cars, fixed not working cheat to unlock all tracks/championships
- updated HQ Cube Maps to v7.0 : increased glass and chrome reflections
- updated legal screen
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 15 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Non exhaustive list of fixes in HQ Cars&Tracks (all these bugs are present in Original GTR2 + Official SimBin patch 1.1 !!!) :
- fixed bad engine sound location in some cars
- fixed bad driver/hands/feet positions in some cars
- fixed BMW_MCOUPE_CHASSIS_A.GMT
- fixed MC12 steering wheel in showroom
- fixed Anderstorp/Donington/Dubai/Monza/Enna max vehicles
- fixed Donington pitcrew position
- fixed Oschersleben safety car position which blocked cars pit exit
- fixed Oschersleben invisible start lights box
- fixed AI qualification/race speed huge gap
- fixed Viper Roos Optima wheels style
- fixed GDB championships (skip Qualif.1 to avoid random grid bug)
- fixed BMW M3GTR CPIT03 MASK
- fixed Chrysler Viper Zwann's cockpit
- fixed F575 BODY MASK
- fixed MAGNETTI MT940 SURROUND MASK
- fixed 996 INTERIOR3
- fixed Viper GTS-R rear lights bloom
- fixed F550/F575 steering wheels
- fixed safety car roof lights
- fixed Lamborghini masks
- fixed TVR masks
- fixed dash redlights misalignment (MC12, 993, 996RS-RSR)
- fixed wrong tyres for 993GT2 Proton Competition (Yokohama and not Dunlop)
- fixed 996 RS 03072 Seikel Motor Sport logo on side wing
- fixed 996 RS 03085 JVG exhausts transparency
- fixed 996 R 03061 EMKA GT3 R logo on back
- fixed 996 RS 04105 Emeraude Racing skin and wheels
- fixed Mosler rear lights
- fixed Stack LCD glitch (PRACTICE/WARMUP/RACE were randomly displayed over laptime)
- fixed Gillet shoulders in mirror
- fixed 996GT2BT gearbox
- fixed Seat toledo gearbox
- fixed F360 spin when downshifting from 2nd to 1st gear
- fixed F360 03052/03053 wrong tyres (Pirelli and not Dunlop)
- fixed F550 Wieth wrong tyres (Dunlop and not Pirelli)
- fixed M3GTR cube maps in mirrors
- fixed F575 wrong cube maps on steering wheels
- fixed RSR hood/door misalignment
- fixed TVR rain screen wrong direction (rain falls from top to bottom and not right to left)
- fixed mosler wrong cube maps in cockpit
- fixed 350z cockpit/banner
- fixed 996GT2 chassis style2 black polygon
- fixed tracks black polygons
- fixed shaders
- fixed unfair AI tyre wear in default game where AI can keep tyres longer than player
- fixed crazy damage bug for viper GTS-R
- fixed all brake discs size/position, disc glow and added nice aluminium reflection on every brake disc
- fixed radiator opening reversed values
- fixed Z3/Lotus/C5R/viperCC/F360/F550/lambo/lister/morgan/mosler/GT3Cup-RS/saleen missing wing shadow
- fixed Viper rear shadow bug by night
- fixed TVR rear shadow bug by night
- fixed BMW M/F360/Lambo/Lotus slick tread always ON : now you will see intermediate/hard wet/soft wet tread too
- fixed BMW M3 GTR too dark tread
- fixed wheel ffb clipping for some cars and central dead zone
- fixed Corvette C5R steering wheel position to see oil pressure needle
- fixed Seat toledo steering wheel black polygon
- fixed Viper Roos broken LCD gear indicator and enabled it for all Vipers
- fixed F575 center mirror (image is no more deformed and tiny holes have been removed)
- fixed Murcielago mirrors (removed abnormal cube map reflection)
- fixed MC12 motec bug : removed the black polygon and made the RPM lights work
- fixed F360 cockpit glitches (fixed roof blurry texture, fixed misspelling "IGNITION", fixed "PULL" misalignment)
- fixed F550 Wieth anti-roll bars wrong spec map
- fixed Saleen broken RPM lights
- fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT
- fixed Vertigo gear display position for better visibility
- fixed corvette black polygon on right door
- fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
- fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
- fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
- fixed broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
- fixed chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
- fixed center mirror in 350z
- fixed Lotus Elise mirrors position and wiper glitch in cockpit
- fixed Morgan broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth deformed mirrors
- fixed Anderstorp weed
- fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures
- fixed fake gauges in F550 cockpit with real working ones
- fixed broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- fixed C5.R rollcage top front bar which was too low and too big
- fixed headlights flickering and added White/Yellow/Endurance styles
- fixed non working endurance lights for RS#160/RSR#66
- fixed hockenheim speed limiter bug on pit exit
- fixed Barcelona flickering pit walk under rain
- fixed missing ExtDriver-ShiftR_M.LMA/ExtDriver-ShiftL_M.LMA driver animations
- fixed rain bug in TVR cockpit doors
Plus,
- increased resistance to damages to prevent AI to pit in for small aero damages
- increased driver seat position range (use LEFT or RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON then drag mouse to adjust view)
- removed bump maps from Morgan/ViperCC/350Z cockpits because of cartoon/plastic effect
- removed spa invisible wall in pits
- updated Enna tyres stack with moving ones
- updated 996CUP #123/124 ugly safety net with nicer one from ViperCC
- updated 996 RS with 3 styles : Motec+H gearbox / Motec+Seq gearbox / Stack+H gearbox
- updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts, display and cube maps, added red zone to Stack and added rev limit to MoTeC
- added 996 GT3 R versions
- added missing motec line : now available in ALL cars (cycles show lap time, oil/water/tyres/brakes temperatures)
- added specific Ferrari/Porsche brakes
- added missing #109 Porsche GT3 CUP from 24h Spa 2003 event
- added laptimer to all cars with flags/pit icons
- added missing safety net in #108 C5R cockpit
- added wipers and dirt/rain effects on side windows
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
There are 2 possibilities because there are 2 different binaries : VR will work for both but your VR experience will be much better with -2-
-1- for NOCD binary :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
-2- for RaceRoom digital binary or original STEAM version : The Iron Wolf and his team have released in nov-2020 CrewChief (CC) for GTR2 which also brings NATIVE VR with an improved VR experience so go to TheCrewChief.org to get it
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate, F550 analog gauges, and #66RSR endurance lights
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
J-Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, new gfx shaders, plugins/binary patches
Teddie Tapawan for realistic Pit Chief voice
The Iron Wolf for reporting memory leak in original DucFreak UI MOD and help to fix it, plus amazing work on CrewChief for GTR2
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
--------------------------------
Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, gwaldock, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, PiotrGT, RaceLM24, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
-------------
- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2021.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v15.1.0 by GTR233 and friends |
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This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 498 Mo
Archive MD5 checksum = e2f700134f50fe2c79641f853c849af1
Last Changelog
--------------
v15.1.0 (changelog may look small but, believe me, workload was huge : this is the first time within 14 years than someone releases wiper animation for all GTR2 cars and with rain effect on side windows!)
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v15.1.0 : added WIPER ANIMATION for all HQ cars (thanks to ArmedLightning for his nice raindrops and to my beta testers, especially Bjarne, gwaldock, Kenny Paton, and Jempy for useful feedback), fixed 14 years old rain bug in TVR cockpit doors
- updated GTR2_SETUP.CMD (33 pages now!) : added HQ2021 physics/tyres/talents with AFSC TinyTweak by AndreasFSC, added option to enable/disable wiper animation for HQ cars (wipers require a powerful PC especially by night)
- updated legal screen
IMPORTANT :
- PLEASE READ BOTH "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install" otherwise you will cry "HELP!!!"
- PLEASE RUN GTR2_SETUP.CMD to set options like language !!!
- THIS PATCH IS NOT PAYWARE : YOU JUST NEED A FREE REGISTRATION TO RACEDEPARTMENT.COM! You can create a gmail address in 1 minute if you don't want to give your personal mail, then create a FREE account at RD (paid subscription is only an OPTION if you want to race online), then LOG IN RD with your new account and DOWNLOAD any mod for FREE !
- NO, THERE IS NO VIRUS IN THIS PATCH AT RACEDEPARTMENT.COM WHICH IS THE ONLY ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THIS MOD!
THANK YOU.
Introduction :
--------------
My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Description :
-------------
Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 15 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Non exhaustive list of fixes in HQ Cars&Tracks (all these bugs are present in Original GTR2 + Official SimBin patch 1.1 !!!) :
- fixed bad engine sound location in some cars
- fixed bad driver/hands/feet positions in some cars
- fixed BMW_MCOUPE_CHASSIS_A.GMT
- fixed MC12 steering wheel in showroom
- fixed Anderstorp/Donington/Dubai/Monza/Enna max vehicles
- fixed Donington pitcrew position
- fixed Oschersleben safety car position which blocked cars pit exit
- fixed Oschersleben invisible start lights box
- fixed AI qualification/race speed huge gap
- fixed Viper Roos Optima wheels style
- fixed GDB championships (skip Qualif.1 to avoid random grid bug)
- fixed BMW M3GTR CPIT03 MASK
- fixed Chrysler Viper Zwann's cockpit
- fixed F575 BODY MASK
- fixed MAGNETTI MT940 SURROUND MASK
- fixed 996 INTERIOR3
- fixed Viper GTS-R rear lights bloom
- fixed F550/F575 steering wheels
- fixed safety car roof lights
- fixed Lamborghini masks
- fixed TVR masks
- fixed dash redlights misalignment (MC12, 993, 996RS-RSR)
- fixed wrong tyres for 993GT2 Proton Competition (Yokohama and not Dunlop)
- fixed 996 RS 03072 Seikel Motor Sport logo on side wing
- fixed 996 RS 03085 JVG exhausts transparency
- fixed 996 R 03061 EMKA GT3 R logo on back
- fixed 996 RS 04105 Emeraude Racing skin and wheels
- fixed Mosler rear lights
- fixed Stack LCD glitch (PRACTICE/WARMUP/RACE were randomly displayed over laptime)
- fixed Gillet shoulders in mirror
- fixed 996GT2BT gearbox
- fixed Seat toledo gearbox
- fixed F360 spin when downshifting from 2nd to 1st gear
- fixed F360 03052/03053 wrong tyres (Pirelli and not Dunlop)
- fixed F550 Wieth wrong tyres (Dunlop and not Pirelli)
- fixed M3GTR cube maps in mirrors
- fixed F575 wrong cube maps on steering wheels
- fixed RSR hood/door misalignment
- fixed TVR rain screen wrong direction (rain falls from top to bottom and not right to left)
- fixed mosler wrong cube maps in cockpit
- fixed 350z cockpit/banner
- fixed 996GT2 chassis style2 black polygon
- fixed tracks black polygons
- fixed shaders
- fixed unfair AI tyre wear in default game where AI can keep tyres longer than player
- fixed crazy damage bug for viper GTS-R
- fixed all brake discs size/position, disc glow and added nice aluminium reflection on every brake disc
- fixed radiator opening reversed values
- fixed Z3/Lotus/C5R/viperCC/F360/F550/lambo/lister/morgan/mosler/GT3Cup-RS/saleen missing wing shadow
- fixed Viper rear shadow bug by night
- fixed TVR rear shadow bug by night
- fixed BMW M/F360/Lambo/Lotus slick tread always ON : now you will see intermediate/hard wet/soft wet tread too
- fixed BMW M3 GTR too dark tread
- fixed wheel ffb clipping for some cars and central dead zone
- fixed Corvette C5R steering wheel position to see oil pressure needle
- fixed Seat toledo steering wheel black polygon
- fixed Viper Roos broken LCD gear indicator and enabled it for all Vipers
- fixed F575 center mirror (image is no more deformed and tiny holes have been removed)
- fixed Murcielago mirrors (removed abnormal cube map reflection)
- fixed MC12 motec bug : removed the black polygon and made the RPM lights work
- fixed F360 cockpit glitches (fixed roof blurry texture, fixed misspelling "IGNITION", fixed "PULL" misalignment)
- fixed F550 Wieth anti-roll bars wrong spec map
- fixed Saleen broken RPM lights
- fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT
- fixed Vertigo gear display position for better visibility
- fixed corvette black polygon on right door
- fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
- fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
- fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
- fixed broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
- fixed chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
- fixed center mirror in 350z
- fixed Lotus Elise mirrors position and wiper glitch in cockpit
- fixed Morgan broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth deformed mirrors
- fixed Anderstorp weed
- fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures
- fixed fake gauges in F550 cockpit with real working ones
- fixed broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- fixed C5.R rollcage top front bar which was too low and too big
- fixed headlights flickering and added White/Yellow/Endurance styles
- fixed non working endurance lights for RS#160/RSR#66
- fixed hockenheim speed limiter bug on pit exit
- fixed Barcelona flickering pit walk under rain
- fixed missing ExtDriver-ShiftR_M.LMA/ExtDriver-ShiftL_M.LMA driver animations
- fixed rain bug in TVR cockpit doors
Plus,
- increased resistance to damages to prevent AI to pit in for small aero damages
- increased driver seat position range (use LEFT or RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON then drag mouse to adjust view)
- removed bump maps from Morgan/ViperCC/350Z cockpits because of cartoon/plastic effect
- removed spa invisible wall in pits
- updated Enna tyres stack with moving ones
- updated 996CUP #123/124 ugly safety net with nicer one from ViperCC
- updated 996 RS with 3 styles : Motec+H gearbox / Motec+Seq gearbox / Stack+H gearbox
- updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts, display and cube maps, added red zone to Stack and added rev limit to MoTeC
- added 996 GT3 R versions
- added missing motec line : now available in ALL cars (cycles show lap time, oil/water/tyres/brakes temperatures)
- added specific Ferrari/Porsche brakes
- added missing #109 Porsche GT3 CUP from 24h Spa 2003 event
- added laptimer to all cars with flags/pit icons
- added missing safety net in #108 C5R cockpit
- added wipers and dirt/rain effects on side windows
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can add options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
You can also add 2005 season : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-2005-fiagt-mod.32765/
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
There are 2 possibilities because there are 2 different binaries : VR will work for both but your VR experience will be much better with -2-
-1- for NOCD binary :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
-2- for RaceRoom digital binary or original STEAM version : The Iron Wolf and his team have released in nov-2020 CrewChief (CC) for GTR2 which also brings NATIVE VR with an improved VR experience so go to TheCrewChief.org to get it
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate, F550 analog gauges, and #66RSR endurance lights
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
J-Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, new gfx shaders, plugins/binary patches
Teddie Tapawan for realistic Pit Chief voice
The Iron Wolf for reporting memory leak in original DucFreak UI MOD and help to fix it, plus amazing work on CrewChief for GTR2
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
--------------------------------
Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, gwaldock, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, PiotrGT, RaceLM24, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
-------------
- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2021.
-------------------------------------------------------------
| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v15.0.0 by GTR233 and friends |
-------------------------------------------------------------
Archive size = 497 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = aed46fa062e033ca96aac468e49ec44e
Last Changelog
--------------
v15.0.0 >>>>>> AS I HAVE CHANGED MANY OPTIONS, A NEW CLEAN GTR2 INSTALL IS REQUIRED !!! <<<<<<
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v12.0 : fixed memory leak issue (thanks to The Iron Wolf for reporting issue and help to find the bug) and improved memory usage, reworked design with only one texture background to get more free memory, added video in HQ versions
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v15.0.0 : remade LODs with new carbon theme (synced with UI), fixed blinking discglow (BMW M3GTR, Mosler, 996GT3 CUP, 996GT2, 993GT2, F575, MC12 and Viper GTS-R), updated all CAS files to improve FPS on very low configs, fixed Barcelona flickering pit walk under rain, added dirt/rain effects on side windows (very long work but immersion is better), added safety net in #108 C5R cockpit as in real, added (fake) wipers in cockpits when none were present
- updated GTR2 HQ RAIN to v15.0 : updated rain animation (now stock and HQ are different)
- added missing ExtDriver-ShiftR_M.LMA/ExtDriver-ShiftL_M.LMA driver animations (you see this 14 years old bug in trace.txt only)
- added many new options such as HQ Backfire, HQ CUBE MAPS, HQ Lens Flare, HQ MARBLES, HQ RAIN, HQ SMOKES and HQ SUITS options in GTR2_SETUP.CMD which includes 32 pages now !
- moved most HQ textures from STEX.GTR file (12Mo instead of 99Mo) to loose files in GameData\Teams because some people reported Crash-To-Desktop due to large STEX.GTR file.
- renamed GTR2_SETUP.BAT extension as GTR2_SETUP.CMD (it works the same way) because some people reported that .BAT extension was not recognized as executable.
Introduction :
--------------
My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Description :
-------------
Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 15 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Non exhaustive list of fixes in HQ Cars&Tracks (all these bugs are present in Original GTR2 + Official SimBin patch 1.1 !!!) :
- fixed bad engine sound location in some cars
- fixed bad driver/hands/feet positions in some cars
- fixed BMW_MCOUPE_CHASSIS_A.GMT
- fixed MC12 steering wheel in showroom
- fixed Anderstorp/Donington/Dubai/Monza/Enna max vehicles
- fixed Donington pitcrew position
- fixed Oschersleben safety car position which blocked cars pit exit
- fixed Oschersleben start lights
- fixed AI qualification/race speed huge gap
- increased driver seat position range (use LEFT or RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON then drag mouse to adjust seat up/down/forward/backward)
- fixed Viper Roos Optima wheels style
- fixed GDB championships (skip Qualif.1 to avoid random grid bug)
- fixed BMW M3GTR CPIT03 MASK
- fixed Chrysler Viper Zwann's cockpit
- fixed F575 BODY MASK
- fixed MAGNETTI MT940 SURROUND MASK
- fixed 996 INTERIOR3
- fixed Viper GTS-R rear lights
- fixed F550/F575 steering wheels
- fixed safety car roof lights
- fixed Lamborghini masks
- fixed TVR masks
- fixed redlights : MC12, 993, 996RS-RSR
- fixed wrong tyres for 993GT2 Proton Competition (Yokohama and not Dunlop)
- fixed 996 RS 03072 Seikel Motor Sport logo on side wing
- fixed 996 RS 03085 JVG exhausts transparency
- fixed 996 R 03061 EMKA GT3 R logo on back
- fixed 996 RS 04105 Emeraude Racing skin and wheels
- added GT3 R versions : 03054, 03055, 03061, 03062, 03075, 03084, 03085, 03090, 03099, 03171, 04057, 04070, 04071, 04105, 04186
- updated 996 RS with 3 styles : Motec+H gearbox / Motec+Seq gearbox / Stack+H gearbox
- fixed Mosler rear lights
- fixed Stack LCD glitch (PRACTICE/WARMUP/RACE were displayed sometimes over laptime)
- fixed Gillet shoulders in mirror
- fixed 996GT2BT gearbox
- fixed Seat toledo gearbox
- fixed F360 spin when downshifting from 2nd to 1st gear
- fixed F360 03052/03053 wrong tyres
- fixed F550 Wieth wrong tyres
- fixed M3GTR mirror cube maps
- fixed F575 steering wheels cube maps
- fixed RSR hood/door misalignment
- fixed TVR rain screen direction
- fixed mosler cockpit cube maps
- fixed 350z cockpit/banner
- fixed 996GT2 chassis style2 black polygon
- fixed tracks black polygons
- fixed Enna tyrewalls
- fixed Shaders
- fixed unfair AI tyre wear in default game where AI can keep tyres longer than player
- increased resistance to damages to prevent AI to pit in for small aero damages
- fixed huge damage bug for viper GTS-R
- added missing motec line : now available in ALL cars (cycles show lap time, oil/water/tyres/brakes temperatures)
- added specific Ferrari/Porsche brakes
- fixed brake discs size, disc glow and added nice aluminium reflection on every brake disc
- fixed radiator opening
- fixed Z3/Lotus/C5R/viperCC/F360/F550/lambo/lister/morgan/mosler/GT3Cup-RS/saleen missing wing shadow
- fixed Viper rear lights by night
- fixed TVR dark rear lights by night
- fixed BMW M/F360/Lambo/Lotus slick tread always ON : now you will see intermediate/hard wet/soft wet tread too
- fixed BMW M3 GTR too dark tread
- fixed wheel ffb clipping for some cars and central dead zone
- fixed Corvette C5R steering wheel position to see oil pressure needle
- fixed Seat toledo steering wheel center black polygon
- removed bump maps from Morgan/ViperCC/350Z cockpits because of cartoon/plastic effect
- fixed Viper Roos broken LCD gear indicator and enabled it for all Vipers
- fixed F575 center mirror (image is no more deformed and tiny holes have been removed)
- fixed Murcielago mirrors (removed abnormal cube map reflection)
- fixed MC12 motec bug : removed the black polygon and made the RPM lights work
- fixed F360 cockpit glitches (fixed roof blurry texture, fixed misspelling "IGNITION", fixed "PULL" misalignment)
- updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts, display and cube maps reflections
- fixed F550 Wieth anti-roll bars wrong spec map
- fixed Saleen broken RPM lights
- fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT
- removed spa invisible wall in pits
- updated 996CUP #123/124 ugly safety net with a better looking one
- added red zone to Stack and added rev limit to MoTeC
- moved Vertigo gear display on the right for better visibility
- added brembo GT 2004 skin to GTs
- fixed corvette black polygon on right door
- fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
- fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
- fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
- fixed broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
- fixed chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
- fixed center mirror in 350z
- fixed Lotus Elise mirrors position and wiper glitch in cockpit
- fixed Morgan broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth deformed mirrors
- fixed Anderstorp weed
- fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures
- fixed fake gauges in F550 cockpit with real working ones
- fixed broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- fixed C5.R rollcage top front bar which was too low and too big
- added missing #109 Porsche GT3 CUP from 24h Spa 2003 event
- added laptimer to all cars with flags/pit icons
- fixed headlights flickering and added White/Yellow/Endurance styles
- fixed non working endurance lights for RS#160/RSR#66
- fixed hockenheim speed limiter bug on pit exit
- fixed Barcelona flickering pit walk under rain
- added dirt/rain effects on side windows
- added missing safety net in #108 C5R cockpit
- added (fake) wipers in cockpits when none were present
- added missing ExtDriver-ShiftR_M.LMA/ExtDriver-ShiftL_M.LMA driver animations
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD + 4GB PATCH = GREY CARS PATCH
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v12.0 : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 2k HDR Skies v9.0 : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus 4k night skies I have made in collaboration with ArmedLightning, and HQ moon/sun. Download GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION if you want 4k HDR skies (4096*4096).
-> GTR2 HQ AI Talent v6.0 : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v15.0 : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v2.0 : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v7.0 : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD v7.0 : new head-up-display skin available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v15.0 : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 HQ TEXTURES MULTI-PATCHES v22.0 : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v2.0 : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but it unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v12.0 : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
Disk space requirement : 1.52 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 3.16 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can add options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
You can also add 2005 season : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-2005-fiagt-mod.32765/
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
There are 2 possibilities because there are 2 different binaries : VR will work for both but your VR experience will be much better with -2-
-1- for NOCD binary :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
-2- for Digital binary :
The Iron Wolf and his team have released in nov-2020 CrewChief (CC) for GTR2 which also brings NATIVE VR with an improved VR experience so go to TheCrewChief.org to get CrewChiefV4.msi and install it :
-> go where you have installed CC on your HDD/SSD and enter plugins\GTR2 directory, there copy all \plugins folder + d3d9.dll + openvr_api.dll into your GTR2 game install (d3d9.dll must be in the same root of GTR2.EXE)
-> you must have installed Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5.2 minimum and vc_redist_2015 (both are available on Microsoft website for free)
-> run CC and click button to download the voice sound pack
-> double click on GTR2_SETUP.CMD and select RaceRoom digital binary at page III
-> set Windows XP or Windows 7 compatibility with right mouse click on GTR2.EXE (The Iron Wolf recommends to not set Administrator rights for VR...but on some OS like Vista/Windows7 running GTR2 as Administrator is mandatory because there is a bootloop and GTR2 won't start)
-> double click on GTR2.EXE to run it
Credits (alphabetical order) :
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6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate, F550 analog gauges, and #66RSR endurance lights
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, new gfx shaders, plugins/binary patches
Teddie Tapawan for realistic Pit Chief voice
The Iron Wolf for reporting memory leak in original DucFreak UI MOD and help to fix it, plus amazing work on CrewChief for GTR2
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
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Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, PiotrGT, RaceLM24, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2021.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.5.0 by GTR233 and friends |
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Archive size = 499 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = 0050a0e5326a8bea5b03735b6123cb48
IMPORTANT :
- PLEASE READ BOTH "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install" !!!
- PLEASE RUN GTR2_SETUP.BAT to set options like language !!!
- NO, THIS PATCH IS NOT PAYWARE : YOU JUST NEED A FREE REGISTRATION TO RACEDEPARTMENT.COM ! You can create a gmail address in 1 minute if you don't want to give your personal mail, then create a FREE account at RD (paid subscription is only an OPTION), then LOG IN RD with your new account and DOWNLOAD any mod for FREE !
- NO, THERE IS NO VIRUS IN GTR2 NOCD included in this patch ! It is for grey cars/4GB patches purpose, you can check by yourself by submitting EXE to VirusTotal.com
- NO, I AM NOT REGISTERED TO ANY SOCIAL MEDIA, IF YOU SEE gtr233 on Facebook/youtube/twitter/... : IT IS NOT ME !
THANK YOU.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Last Changelog
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v14.5.0
- includes previous HOTFIXES 14.4.1/14.4.2/14.4.3
-> fixed wrong shader in 996RS/RSR lights
-> added note in GTR2_SETUP.BAT to say that you won't see ghost/instructor car in driving school if you disable base cars so reactivate them for full driving school experience
-> added script line to detect nude GTR2 at ONLINE page
-> added PLR choice/info page in GTR2_SETUP.BAT (thanks to DurgeDriven for advice)
-> removed suggested stats in driving school as it is useless because you try to go as fast as possible anyway (thanks to The Iron Wolf for advice)
-> fixed genstring for VIPER GTS-R Zakspeed (thanks to PiotrGT/DurgeDriven for reporting bug)
-> updated BOP for HQ2020 M3GTR/MOSLER/S7R/350z/F360/TVR because it was impossible to get gold medal in driving school
-> updated GTR2_SETUP.BAT : added few explaining notes, added driving school page for more options
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.5 : fixed 14 years old hockenheim speed limiter bug on pit exit, added new ferrari brake caliper
- updated legal screen
- Set NOCD1 by default because too many people do not read readme/install and do not understand what is GTR2_SETUP.BAT : you miss many options ! Note that you may need to right click on GTR2_SETUP.BAT then left click on "Run as Administrator" otherwise it won't overwrite files because of insufficient privileges on some PCs. This NOCD1 is compatible with XD-MApPlugin but not with CrewChief/NativeVR/GID so you MUST install NOCD2 via GTR2_SETUP.BAT at page III to use these plugins.
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD + 4GB PATCH = GREY CARS PATCH
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v11.0 : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 2k HDR Skies v9.0 : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus 4k night skies I have made in collaboration with ArmedLightning, and HQ moon/sun. Download GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION if you want 4k HDR skies (4096*4096).
-> GTR2 HQ AI Talent v6.0 : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.5 : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v2.0 : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v7.0 : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD v7.0 : new head-up-display skin available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v14.0 : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 HQ TEXTURES MULTI-PATCHES v22.0 : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v2.0 : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but it unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v12.0 : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
Disk space requirement : 1.25 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 2.89 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available here (4k HDR Skies and many other options) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
There are 2 possibilities because there are 2 different binaries : VR will work for both but your VR experience will be much better with -2-
-1- for NOCD binary :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
-2- for Digital binary :
The Iron Wolf and his team have released in nov-2020 CrewChief (CC) for GTR2 which also brings NATIVE VR with an improved VR experience so go to TheCrewChief.org to get CrewChiefV4.msi and install it :
-> go where you have installed CC on your HDD/SSD and enter plugins\GTR2 directory, there copy all \plugins folder + d3d9.dll + openvr_api.dll into your GTR2 game install (d3d9.dll must be in the same root of GTR2.EXE)
-> you must have installed Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5.2 minimum and vc_redist_2015 (both are available on Microsoft website for free)
-> run CC and click button to download the voice sound pack
-> double click on GTR2-SETUP.BAT and select RaceRoom digital binary at page III
-> set Windows XP or Windows 7 compatibility with right mouse click on GTR2.EXE (The Iron Wolf recommends to not set Administrator rights for VR)
-> double click on GTR2.EXE to run it
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate, F550 analog gauges, and #66RSR endurance lights
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, new gfx shaders, plugins/binary patches
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
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Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, PiotrGT, RaceLM24, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, The Iron Wolf, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.4.0 by GTR233 and friends |
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Archive size = 496 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = a49b400c6da1d31137d315b286eef61c
IMPORTANT : please read carefully both "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install" BECAUSE IT COULD BE COMPLEX FOR NEWBIES BUT ALL ANSWERS ARE HERE.
MOREOVER, THERE ARE LOTS OF RUMORS/FAKE NEWS ON INTERNET :
- NO, THIS PATCH IS NOT PAYWARE, IT COSTS NOTHING FOR YOU (but it costed 5 years of work for me !) : YOU JUST NEED A FREE REGISTRATION TO RACEDEPARTMENT.COM ! You can create a gmail address in 1 minute if you don't want to give your personal mail, then create a FREE account at RD (paid subscription is only an OPTION !), then LOG IN RD with your new account and DOWNLOAD any mod for FREE !
- NO, THERE IS NO VIRUS IN GTR2 NOCD included in this patch ! It is for grey cars/4GB patches purpose, you can check by yourself by submitting EXE to VirusTotal.com ; I use it since 2007, and the same NOCD is included in Power&Glory MOD made by ex-SimBin devs !
- NO, I AM NOT REGISTERED TO ANY SOCIAL MEDIA, IF YOU SEE gtr233 on Facebook/youtube/twitter/... : IT IS NOT ME !
THANK YOU.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
PREAMBLE: GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch and GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION are really different (many files in GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch are not present in GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and vice versa) :
-> for GTR2 : install first GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch then pick some options from GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION as 4k HDR Skies by example
-> for PnG3 : use GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION only
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Last Changelog
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v14.4.0 >>>>>> AS I HAVE CHANGED MANY OPTIONS, A NEW CLEAN GTR2 INSTALL IS REQUIRED !!! <<<<<<
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.4 : increased rain probability in some HQ tracks (thanks to Bjarne for advice), updated bik, fixed headlights flickering for digital binary, added more fog (thanks to The Iron Wolf for advice), fixed 14 years old non working endurance lights for RS#160/RSR#66 (thanks to AndreasFSC for #66 3D rework), added new sets of HQ Headlights made in collaboration with ArmedLightning (1-white, 2-yellow, 3-endurance white, 4-endurance yellow, 5-xenon blue, 6-vintage, 7-endurance xenon blue, 8-endurance vintage), updated all genstrings (added txt file for each car) and enabled 2 digits driver style for Viper/F550/MC12
- updated GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS to v7.0 : totally reworked HQ Headlights in collaboration with ArmedLightning and added endurance versions.
- updated HQ FOV DEFVIEWS to v12.0 : 2 versions are available now either for digital binary or for NOCD because clipplanes behavior is totally different.
I have kept vFOV from 30 to 72 : for VR you will need around vFOV 100-110 so take the 72 version and use CTRL+LEFT MOUSE BUTTON then drag mouse up/down to adjust vFOV to your taste (thanks to Bjarne for advice).
- updated Driving School : set HQ cars instead of base cars. Due to different physics available for HQ cars, I had to disable setup presets which cannot work for all physics available so now you need to go in garage and configure your car setup before trying a challenge especially under rainy conditions.
- updated legal screen
- merged HQ_STEX.GTR+EEC_STEX.GTR(v2.3)+SCORPYO_STEX.GTR into a mega stex.GTR with HQ textures : I really love Scorpyo's work at EEC but not the headlights/dirtscreen textures he as included into stex files because of headlights halo glitch and dirtscreen layers transitions which are not smooth, so I replaced them with the ones I made but HQ textures will not be activated by default in EEC MODS because EEC_STEX.GTR/SCORPYO_STEX.GTR are ABOVE STEX.GTR in CAS files so they have got priority (gtr2 takes the first file it finds and will ignore any other file with same name).
To activate HQ textures you need to edit every CAS file and move (or create it if it doesn't exist) STEX.GTR line on TOP of the list like this (BACKUP CAS FILE BEFORE ANY CHANGE!) :
MASFile=STEX.GTR
MASFile=EEC_STEX.GTR or MASFile=SCORPYO_STEX.GTR
- updated GTR2 SETUP with new options (binary choice, make a nude GTR2 for standalone mods,...), I typed more than 4300 lines of scripts to make things easy for noobs : you can skip some pages with S key when you don't know what to answer BUT IT IS MANDATORY TO ANSWER EITHER 1 or 2 at the FIRST RUN at PAGE III because binary choice will activate/deactivate some options in next pages of this setup !!!
- removed some dll to avoid conflicts with CrewChief (thanks to The Iron Wolf for advice) : now GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is fully compatible so go to TheCrewChief.org to test this new plugin for GTR2 !
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD + 4GB PATCH = GREY CARS PATCH
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v11.0 : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 2k HDR Skies v9.0 : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus 4k night skies I have made in collaboration with ArmedLightning, and HQ moon/sun. Download GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION if you want 4k HDR skies (4096*4096).
-> GTR2 HQ AI Talent v6.0 : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.4 : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v2.0 : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v7.0 : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD v7.0 : new head-up-display skin available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v14.0 : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 HQ TEXTURES MULTI-PATCHES v21.0 : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v2.0 : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but it unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v12.0 : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
Disk space requirement : 1.22 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 2.86 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available here (4k HDR Skies and many other options) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
Usage Disclaimer :
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This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
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There are 2 possibilities because there are 2 different binaries : VR will work for both but your VR experience will be much better with -2-
-1- for NOCD binary :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
-2- for Digital binary :
The Iron Wolf and his team have released in nov-2020 CrewChief (CC) for GTR2 which also brings NATIVE VR with an improved VR experience so go to TheCrewChief.org to get CrewChiefV4.msi and install it :
-> go where you have installed CC on your HDD/SSD and enter plugins\GTR2 directory, there copy all \plugins folder + d3d9.dll + openvr_api.dll into your GTR2 game install (d3d9.dll must be in the same root of GTR2.EXE)
-> you must have installed Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5.2 minimum and vc_redist_2015 (both are available on Microsoft website for free)
-> run CC and click button to download the voice sound pack
-> double click on GTR2-SETUP.BAT and select RaceRoom digital binary at page III
-> set Windows XP or Windows 7 compatibility with right mouse click on GTR2.EXE (The Iron Wolf recommends to not set Administrator rights for VR)
-> double click on GTR2.EXE to run it
Credits (alphabetical order) :
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6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate, F550 analog gauges, and #66RSR endurance lights
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, new gfx shaders, plugins/binary patches
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
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Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, RaceLM24, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, The Iron Wolf, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.3.0 by GTR233 and friends |
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IMPORTANT : please read carefully both "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install"...otherwise you will cry and post in forums "GTR2 CRASHED PLEASE HELP!" or "CARS ARE GREY PLEASE HELP!"... THERE ARE MANY INFORMATIONS AND OPTIONS, IT IS QUITE COMPLEX FOR NEWBIES BUT ALL ANSWERS ARE HERE IN THIS ARCHIVE, THANK YOU.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 469 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = 5781d87d99a888b67d52ce522762be46
PREAMBLE: GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch and GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION are really different (many files in GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch are not present in GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and vice versa) :
-> for GTR2 : install first GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch then pick some options from GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION like HDR Skies by example
-> for PnG3 : use GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION only
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Last Changelog
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v14.3.0 >>>>>> AS I HAVE CHANGED MANY OPTIONS, A NEW CLEAN GTR2 INSTALL IS REQUIRED !!! <<<<<<
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v11.0 : added showroom button in championships, updated garage pages (added assisted settings on SETUP 1 page to help newbies), restored monitor sound button, added pink theme
- updated GTR2 HQ AI Talent to v6.0 : updated passing value and aggressivity
- updated GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS to v2.0 : reworked sound levels, especially tranny
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.3 : updated Viper back plate (thanks to AndreasFSC), updated F550 analog gauges (thanks to AndreasFSC), updated C5.R rollcage top front bar, updated HQ Anderstorp aurora borealis with ArmedLightning's stars background, updated HQ track names in GDB to avoid some track conflicts (thanks to Bjarne for advice), added missing #109 Porsche GT3 CUP from 24h Spa 2003 (thanks to Maxellero for new 3D model style8 and drr6 for skin), added laptimer to all cars with flags/pit icons (thanks to Bjarne for advice)
- updated GTR2 HQ RAIN to v14.0 : added latest ArmedLightning rainscreen effects
- updated GTR2 HQ TEXTURES MULTI-PATCHES to v21.0 : added BMW_M3GTR_CPIT01.DDS and its mask, reworked lister/maserati dash textures
- updated GTR2 UIAssets Patch to v2.0 : updated default loading screen (the one you see when a track has no loading screen)
- updated legal screen
- updated GTR2 SETUP with new options (intro, daytime headlights, safety car skin, and sounds) and removed ENBSeries because many people did not read this readme and complained about broken windows ALT-TAB
- removed HDR Skies because Anniversary Patch is bigger and would have exceeded 500Mb upload limit at RD, moreover some people prefer to use alternate skies textures, so from now if you want HDR Skies in 2K/4K then download and install them from GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
Description :
-------------
Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
----------
- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD by Reloaded + 4GB PATCH by Daniel Pistelli = GREY CARS PATCH
- Microsoft dll from 2010 packages to improve GTR2 compatibility with some OS/plugins
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v11.0 (*) : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 HQ AI Talent v6.0 (*) : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 (***) : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.3 (****) : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v2.0 (*) : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v6.0 (***) : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD v7.0 (*) : new head-up-display skin available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 (*) : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 (***) : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 (*) : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 (*) : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v14.0 (**) : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 (***) : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 (***) : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 (***) : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 HQ TEXTURES MULTI-PATCHES v21.0 (**) : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v2.0 (*) : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but it unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 (*) : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 (***) : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 (*) : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v11.0 (*) : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 (*) : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 (*) : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 (*) : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
(*) available for both default and HQ versions
(**) full for HQ versions but only partial for default game but you can install skins with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(***) available for HQ versions only here but you can install skins (not the 3D updates) for default cars with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(****) HQ cars are only available in GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH, you can only install HQ tracks with HQ MODS COLLECTION
Disk space requirement : 1.17 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 2.81 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available here (HDR 4k Skies and many other options) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
here is the recommended treatment by your doctor :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
AndreasFSC for 3d rework of viper back plate & F550 analog gauges
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
drr6 for adding #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and HQ updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask and C5R fix from his 2005 mod with kind permission
LmS for GTR2 Guide Setup
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
Maxellero for adding 3d updates to #109 skin from 24h Spa 2003
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the great mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, and new gfx shaders
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
--------------------------------
Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO, Verde_msk.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.2.1 by GTR233 and friends |
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IMPORTANT : please read carefully both "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_readme" and "_GTR2_HQ_Anniversary_PATCH_install"...otherwise you will cry and post in forums "GTR2 CRASHED PLEASE HELP!" or "CARS ARE GREY PLEASE HELP!"... THERE ARE MANY INFORMATIONS AND OPTIONS, IT IS QUITE COMPLEX FOR NEWBIES BUT ALL ANSWERS ARE HERE IN THIS ARCHIVE, THANK YOU.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 491 Mo
Archive MD5 hash =
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman,... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such a legendary sim !
Last Changelog
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v14.0
- We are in 2020 so no more 10th anniversary but 14th anniversary of GTR2, this is the reason why I decided to change the name of the mod from "GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch" to "GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch" which reflects the reality a bit more as only HQ game benefits from all the patches I have put in along the years. Indeed base 2003-2004 game remains quite stock with very few updates (some textures are shared and cannot be isolated like skies and few steering wheels by example)
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v9.0 : added HQ anniversary RED/BLUE/GREEN themes (thanks to Bjarne/DurgeDriven for advices)
- updated GTR2 HQ BRAKES to v3.0 : reworked brembo_01.dds skin and added brembo GT 2004 skin
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v18.0 : reworked GT3R-RS-RSR cockpit doors, mosler steering wheel, morgan top dash alcantara, corvette carbon dash and steering wheel, BMW Z3 dash, Seat cockpit DASH/DOORS
- updated HQ FOV DEFVIEWS to v11.0 : disabled shake
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.0 : new HQ anniversary logo to celebrate the 14th anniversary, fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT (thanks to fruitbirb for reporting bug), new sun lighting with higher contrast and darker shadows, removed spa invisible wall in pits, updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts and display, added/reworked cube maps reflections to all displays in all cockpits, updated Mosler/Morgan leds, updated 996CUP #123/124 safety net, added secondary GTL lap timer to all Stack cockpits (elise/mosler/GT3R), added red zone to Stack, added rev limit to MoTeC, added mosler logos on steering wheel and tachometer, updated Seat, GT3R-RSR and MC12 steering wheel position, moved Vertigo gear display a bit on the right for better visibility, added brembo GT 2004 skin to GTs ; fixed some 14 years old bugs : fixed corvette black polygon on right door (thanks to Peter van de Kolk for reporting bug), fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led, fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment, fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment, broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth, chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo, center mirror in 350z
- added new options : GTR2 desktop icon v2 with original style, new UI-Themes in HQ BLUE, HQ RED, HQ GREEN, 10th Anniversary or stock, 7 plugins presets, added [GTR2_NAP_1.4_PATCH_by_Barry&Chronus] to fix reversed min/max values in latpeak/longpeak (thanks to barry)
v14.1
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v10.0 : restored car spin manual rotation (thanks to cangrejin for advice), added current track name on garage monitor page, fixed black screen on unlocked track page (thanks to cangrejin for reporting bug)
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v19.0 : reworked Seat toledo steering wheel textures, reworked carbon textures in corvette cockpit
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.1 : updated AIW/GDB, patched Lotus Elise mirrors and 14 years old wiper glitch, fixed Morgan 14 years old broken wheel leds, fixed P993 GT2 14 years old black polygon bug on front chassis, fixed F550 Wieth 14 years old deformed mirrors
- updated UI & Plugins presets, updated OPTIONS
v14.2 >>>>>> AS I HAVE CHANGED MANY OPTIONS, A NEW CLEAN GTR2 INSTALL IS REQUIRED !!! <<<<<<
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v10.1 : slightly reduced green glow which was too strong, added B&W + YELLOW themes
- updated GTR2 HQ AI to v5.0 : increased passing value
- updated GTR2 HQ HUD COLLECTION to v7.0 : replaced HUD with HQ PRO STOCK mk2 in 10 languages
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v20.0 : reworked BMW z3 dash carbon texture
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.2 : reworked physics again (thanks to Shovas for advices), added Anderstorp weed fix by Bjarne, fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures, replaced fake gauges in F550 cockpit by real working ones, fixed 14 years old broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- updated and cleaned OPTIONS, added 4 SpecialFX.tec (tracks effects settings)
- added Scorpyo's GTR2 SRPL shaders because more and more mods use them now and they are not always included with mods
- added brand new GTR2 SETUP file to configure the sim exactly as you want with safe and minimal efforts : just after extracting this HQ Anniversary PATCH in your clean GTR2 install, double-click on GTR2_SETUP.BAT to launch it (do not be afraid of the retro "GEEK" look like good old DOS). There are 12 pages to configure GTR2 :
- type any number of the choice list to activate it (NUMLOCK/CAPSLOCK must be ON...otherwise your PC will bip)
- type "S" to skip and to go to next option screen
- type "B" to go back to previous option screen
- type "X" to quit SETUP anytime you want
v14.2.1 HOTFIX (YOU CAN APPLY THIS HOTFIX OVER PREVIOUS v14.2, but not older versions which require a new GTR2 install)
- cleaned OPTIONS folder
- updated Setup\Plugin folder : added various versions of enbseries for test purpose but the best working version for GTR2 is 0.074f (unfortunately all versions break WIN ALT-TAB for GTR2.EXE but image looks much better with rich colors, higher contrast and nice HDR effect, you can activate it or not via GTR2-SETUP.BAT). You can also get a look at http://enbdev.com to support Boris Vorontsov work and hopefully he could make a dedicated version for GTR2 with working WinAlt-Tab if enough people from here ask him...
- updated GTR2_SETUP.BAT : fixed enbseries path in plugin page and added confirmation message when you modify options
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD by Reloaded + 4GB PATCH by Daniel Pistelli = GREY CARS PATCH
- MS Dx9/dll from 2010 packages to improve GTR2 compatibility with some OS/plugins
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v10.1 (*) : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 HDR 2k Skies v8.0 (*) : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus my scratched made night skies, moon and sun. If you want the 4k version then download HQ MOD COLLECTION but you need a powerful computer because 4k skies can give suttering on slow machines.
-> GTR2 HQ AI Talent v5.0 (*) : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 (***) : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.2 (****) : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v1.1 (*) : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v6.0 (***) : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD v7.0 (*) : new head-up-display skin available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 (*) : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 (***) : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 (*) : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 (*) : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v13.0 (**) : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 (***) : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 (***) : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 (***) : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES v20.0 (**) : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v1.0 (*) : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but that unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 (*) : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 (***) : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 (*) : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v11.0 (*) : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 (*) : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 (*) : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 (*) : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
(*) available for both default and HQ versions
(**) full for HQ versions but only partial for default game but you can install skins with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(***) available for HQ versions only here but you can install skins (not the 3D updates) for default cars with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(****) HQ cars are only available in GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH, you can only install HQ tracks with HQ MODS COLLECTION
Disk space requirement : 1.17 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 2.81 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available here (HDR 4k Skies, HQ DAYTIME HEADLIGHTS, HQ F360 SOUNDS, and many other options) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
here is the recommended treatment by your doctor :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Boris Vorontsov for ENBSeries plugin
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask from his 2005 mod with kind permission
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, and new gfx shaders
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for XD plugin
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
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Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.2 by GTR233 and friends |
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ULTRA VERY IMPORTANT : READ "GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH_install.txt" and follow EXACTLY the steps if you have never installed GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH...otherwise you will cry and post in forums "GTR2 CRASHED PLEASE HELP!" or "CARS ARE GREY PLEASE HELP!"... so PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY INFORMATIONS AND OPTIONS, IT IS QUITE COMPLEX FOR NEWBIES.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 490 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = 223b2bd310b8f97cb7e86f81bbbaf34e
Introduction :
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My name is Paul (aka GTR233) and I have started to make GTR2 skins 5 years ago at nogrip with HQ MODS like HQ AMBIENT SHADOW, HQ LENS FLARE, HQ HEADLIGHTS, HQ RAIN and HQ HUD. Time passing, I have met a nice sim community (Arthur, ArmedLightning, David Wright & DucFreak, derDumeklemmer, DurgeDriven, leon_90, NeelJ, Philipp, Scorpyo, Shovas, syhlif32, ...so many good people that I just cannot list all but I always write name in credits when I get some help or use someone else work) who gave me advices and helped me to make GTR2 better. Back in 2015 syhlif32 told me : "next year GTR2 will be 10 years old so a 10th anniversary patch with all updates available will be smart"... and the GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch was born, of course at the very beginning it was just a single archive made with all the HQ MODS I have released then, along the years, I have added more and more HQ textures and fixes to make this ultimate GTR2 patch today : 14th ANNIVERSARY, LONG LIVE TO THE KING GTR2 !
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such legendary sims !
Last Changelog
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v14.0
- We are in 2020 so no more 10th anniversary but 14th anniversary of GTR2, this is the reason why I decided to change the name of the mod from "GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch" to "GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch" which reflects the reality a bit more as only HQ game benefits from all the patches I have put in along the years. Indeed base 2003-2004 game remains quite stock with very few updates (some textures are shared and cannot be isolated like skies and few steering wheels by example)
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v9.0 : added HQ anniversary RED/BLUE/GREEN themes (thanks to Bjarne/DurgeDriven for advices)
- updated GTR2 HQ BRAKES to v3.0 : reworked brembo_01.dds skin and added brembo GT 2004 skin
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v18.0 : reworked GT3R-RS-RSR cockpit doors, mosler steering wheel, morgan top dash alcantara, corvette carbon dash and steering wheel, BMW Z3 dash, Seat cockpit DASH/DOORS
- updated HQ FOV DEFVIEWS to v11.0 : disabled shake
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.0 :
-> new HQ anniversary logo to celebrate the 14th anniversary
-> fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT (thanks to fruitbirb for reporting bug)
-> new sun lighting with higher contrast and darker shadows, removed spa invisible wall in pits
-> updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts and display
-> added/reworked cube maps reflections to all displays in all cockpits
-> updated Mosler/Morgan leds
-> updated 996CUP #123/124 safety net
-> added secondary GTL lap timer to all Stack cockpits (elise/mosler/GT3R)
-> added red zone to Stack
-> added rev limit to MoTeC
-> added mosler logos on steering wheel and tachometer
-> updated Seat, GT3R-RSR and MC12 steering wheel position
-> moved Vertigo gear display a bit on the right for better visibility
-> added brembo GT 2004 skin to GTs
-> fixed some 14 years old bugs :
>> fixed corvette black polygon on right door (thanks to Peter van de Kolk for reporting bug)
>> fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
>> fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
>> fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
>> broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
>> chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
>> center mirror in 350z
- added new options :
-> GTR2 desktop icon v2 with original style
-> new UI-Themes, just unzip to activate it in HQ BLUE, HQ RED, HQ GREEN, 10th Anniversary or stock
-> added 7 plugins presets available for different combos, just extract zip and overwrite files to activate preset of your choice
-> added [GTR2_NAP_1.4_PATCH_by_Barry&Chronus] to fix reversed min/max values in latpeak/longpeak (thanks to barry)
v14.1
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v10.0 : restored car spin manual rotation (thanks to cangrejin for advice), added current track name on garage monitor page, fixed black screen on unlocked track page (thanks to cangrejin for reporting bug)
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v19.0 : reworked Seat toledo steering wheel textures, reworked carbon textures in corvette cockpit
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.1 :
- updated AIW/GDB
- patched Lotus Elise mirrors and 14 years old wiper glitch
- fixed Morgan 14 years old broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 14 years old black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth 14 years old deformed mirrors
- updated UI & Plugins presets archives in 7z format instead of RAR to save space
- cleaned [OPTIONS] folder
- moved options as -OPTION- 7z archive directly in GTR2\ directory, extract 7z archive to activate it :
- 10 languages presets : Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- 4 AI-Talent presets : Original, Reborn, SHOvas-Competition, and HQ (set by default)
- 4 physics presets for HQ Cars&Tracks : Original, NAPmod, Reborn, and HQ 2020 (set by default)
- 6 tyres presets for HQ Cars : Original, NAPmod, NAPmod patched, Reborn, HQ 2019, and HQ 2020 (set by default)
- 7 plugins presets : ENBSeries only (default), ENBSeries+XD, ENBSeries+GTR2MapPlugin, ENBSeries+GTR2MapPlugin+XD, XD only, GTR2MapPlugin only, GTR2MapPlugin+XD
- 5 UI-Themes : Original, 10th Anniversary, HQ RED (default), HQ BLUE, HQ GREEN
v14.2 >>>>>> AS I HAVE CHANGED MANY OPTIONS, A NEW CLEAN GTR2 INSTALL IS REQUIRED !!! <<<<<<
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v10.1 : slightly reduced green glow which was too strong, added B&W + YELLOW themes
- updated GTR2 HQ AI to v5.0 : increased passing value
- updated GTR2 HQ HUD COLLECTION to v7.0 : replaced HUD with HQ PRO STOCK mk2 in 10 languages
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v20.0 : reworked BMW z3 dash carbon texture
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.2 : reworked physics again (thanks to Shovas for advices), added Anderstorp weed fix by Bjarne, fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures, replaced fake gauges in F550 cockpit by real working ones, fixed 14 years old broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- added 4 SpecialFX.tec (tracks effects settings) to Setup folder : careful if you play online, always restore original SimBin SpecialFX.tec (or PnG3 for Power&Glory3 leagues) otherwise you will get online mismatch !!!
- moved [GTR2 STOCK GAME BACKUP] from [OPTIONS] folder to Setup folder
- moved [GTR2 UNLOCKER] from [OPTIONS] folder to Setup folder
- moved [GTR2 New GFX by Syhlif32] from [OPTIONS] folder to Setup folder
- renamed "AI-Talent" optional archives as "GTR2-Talent" because it was confusing for some people : indeed Talent RCD files are only a small part of all AI settings which are implemented in many files (PLR, AIW, HDC, TYR, etc...). Moreover these AI drivers will work only for GTR2 cars and not for the mods you will add afterward, so in the end it is definitely not a universal AI patch.
- added Scorpyo's GTR2 SRPL shaders because more and more mods use them now and they are not always included with mods
- added brand new GTR2 SETUP file to configure the sim exactly as you want with safe and minimal efforts : just after extracting this HQ Anniversary PATCH in your clean GTR2 install, double-click on GTR2_SETUP.BAT to launch it (do not be afraid of the retro "GEEK" look like good old DOS). There are 12 pages to configure GTR2 :
- type any number of the choice list to activate it (NUMLOCK/CAPSLOCK must be ON...otherwise your PC will bip)
- type "S" to skip and to go to next option screen
- type "B" to go back to previous option screen
- type "X" to quit SETUP anytime you want
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) 6Go RAM with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo.
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD by Reloaded + 4GB PATCH by Daniel Pistelli = GREY CARS PATCH
- MS Dx9/dll from 2010 packages to improve GTR2 compatibility with some OS/plugins
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v10.1 (*) : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 HDR 2k Skies v8.0 (*) : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus my scratched made night skies, moon and sun. If you want the 4k version then download HQ MOD COLLECTION but you need a powerful computer because 4k skies can give suttering on slow machines.
-> GTR2 HQ AI v5.0 (*) : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 (***) : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.2 (****) : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v1.1 (*) : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v6.0 (***) : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD v7.0 (*) : new head-up-display skin available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 (*) : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 (***) : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 (*) : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 (*) : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v13.0 (**) : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 (***) : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 (***) : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 (***) : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES v20.0 (**) : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v1.0 (*) : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but that unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 (*) : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 (***) : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 (*) : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v11.0 (*) : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 (*) : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 (*) : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 (*) : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
(*) available for both default and HQ versions
(**) full for HQ versions but only partial for default game but you can install skins with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(***) available for HQ versions only here but you can install skins (not the 3D updates) for default cars with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(****) HQ cars are only available in GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH, you can only install HQ tracks with HQ MODS COLLECTION
Disk space requirement : 1.17 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 2.81 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available in the HQ Anniversary Patch (HDR 4k Skies, HQ DAYTIME HEADLIGHTS, HQ F360 SOUNDS, and many other options) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
Usage Disclaimer :
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This mod is PRIVATE (need free registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
You are permitted to broadcast videos of this mod on social medias (YouTube, Twitch, etc...).
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
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here is the recommended treatment by your doctor :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
Credits (alphabetical order) :
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6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Boris Vorontsov for ENBSeries
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask from his 2005 mod with kind permission
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR, driver arms GMT, DTM2018 showroom, GTR2 SRPL Shaders, MC12 LEDs and all the mods he made for GTR2 community
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, and new gfx shaders
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for smart XD tool
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
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Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.1 by GTR233 and friends |
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ULTRA VERY IMPORTANT : READ "GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH_install.txt" and follow EXACTLY the steps if you have never installed GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH...otherwise you will cry and post in forums "GTR2 CRASHED PLEASE HELP!" or "CARS ARE GREY PLEASE HELP!"... so PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY INFORMATIONS AND OPTIONS, IT IS QUITE COMPLEX FOR NEWBIES.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 494 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = 955c856a8305ed81f5f62812d0ad90e2
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such legendary sims !
Last Changelog
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v14.0
- We are in 2020 so no more 10th anniversary but 14th anniversary of GTR2, this is the reason why I decided to change the name of the mod from "GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch" to "GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch" which reflects the reality a bit more as only HQ game benefits from all the patches I have put in along the years. Indeed base 2003-2004 game remains quite stock with very few updates (some textures are shared and cannot be isolated like skies and few steering wheels by example)
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v9.0 : added HQ anniversary RED/BLUE/GREEN themes (thanks to Bjarne/DurgeDriven for advices)
- updated GTR2 HQ BRAKES to v3.0 : reworked brembo_01.dds skin and added brembo GT 2004 skin
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v18.0 : reworked GT3R-RS-RSR cockpit doors, mosler steering wheel, morgan top dash alcantara, corvette carbon dash and steering wheel, BMW Z3 dash, Seat cockpit DASH/DOORS
- updated HQ FOV DEFVIEWS to v11.0 : disabled shake
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.0 :
-> new HQ anniversary logo to celebrate the 14th anniversary
-> fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT (thanks to fruitbirb for reporting bug)
-> new sun lighting with higher contrast and darker shadows, removed spa invisible wall in pits
-> updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts and display
-> added/reworked cube maps reflections to all displays in all cockpits
-> updated Mosler/Morgan leds
-> updated 996CUP #123/124 safety net
-> added secondary GTL lap timer to all Stack cockpits (elise/mosler/GT3R)
-> added red zone to Stack
-> added rev limit to MoTeC
-> added mosler logos on steering wheel and tachometer
-> updated Seat, GT3R-RSR and MC12 steering wheel position
-> moved Vertigo gear display a bit on the right for better visibility
-> added brembo GT 2004 skin to GTs
-> fixed some 14 years old bugs :
>> fixed corvette black polygon on right door (thanks to Peter van de Kolk for reporting bug)
>> fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
>> fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
>> fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
>> broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
>> chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
>> center mirror in 350z
- added new options :
-> GTR2 desktop icon v2 with original style
-> new UI-Themes, just unzip to activate it in HQ BLUE, HQ RED, HQ GREEN, 10th Anniversary or stock
-> added 7 plugins presets available for different combos, just extract zip and overwrite files to activate preset of your choice
-> added [GTR2_NAP_1.4_PATCH_by_Barry&Chronus] to fix reversed min/max values in latpeak/longpeak (thanks to barry)
v14.1
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v10.0 : restored car spin manual rotation (thanks to cangrejin for advice), added current track name on garage monitor page, fixed black screen on unlocked track page (thanks to cangrejin for reporting bug)
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v19.0 : reworked Seat toledo steering wheel textures, reworked carbon textures in corvette cockpit
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.1 :
- updated AIW/GDB
- patched Lotus Elise mirrors and 14 years old wiper glitch
- fixed Morgan 14 years old broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 14 years old black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth 14 years old deformed mirrors
- updated UI & Plugins presets archives in 7z format instead of RAR to save space
- cleaned [OPTIONS] folder
- moved options as -OPTION- 7z archive directly in GTR2\ directory, extract 7z archive to activate it :
- 10 languages presets : Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- 4 AI-Talent presets : Original, Reborn, SHOvas-Competition, and HQ (set by default)
- 4 physics presets for HQ Cars&Tracks : Original, NAPmod, Reborn, and HQ 2020 (set by default)
- 6 tyres presets for HQ Cars : Original, NAPmod, NAPmod patched, Reborn, HQ 2019, and HQ 2020 (set by default)
- 7 plugins presets : ENBSeries only (default), ENBSeries+XD, ENBSeries+GTR2MapPlugin, ENBSeries+GTR2MapPlugin+XD, XD only, GTR2MapPlugin only, GTR2MapPlugin+XD
- 5 UI-Themes : Original, 10th Anniversary, HQ RED (default), HQ BLUE, HQ GREEN
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo (8800/9800GT were the high end nvidia card when GTR2 was released so I do not recommend this mod with poor Intel integrated graphics but it will work great with last AMD APU 3200G-Vega8 and above as tested by my friend DurgeDriven).
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD by Reloaded + 4GB PATCH by Daniel Pistelli = GREY CARS PATCH
- MS Dx9/dll from 2010 packages to improve GTR2 compatibility with some OS/plugins
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v10.0 (*) : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 HDR 2k Skies v8.0 (*) : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus my scratched made night skies, moon and sun. If you want the 4k version then download HQ MOD COLLECTION but you need a powerful computer because 4k skies can give suttering on slow machines.
-> GTR2 HQ AI v4.2 (*) : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 (***) : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.1 (****) : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v1.1 (*) : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v6.0 (***) : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD 10th Anniversary v6.1 (*) : new head-up-display skin (mk2) available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 (*) : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 (***) : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 (*) : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 (*) : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v13.0 (**) : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 (***) : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 (***) : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 (***) : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES v19.0 (**) : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v1.0 (*) : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but that unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 (*) : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 (***) : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 (*) : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v11.0 (*) : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 (*) : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 (*) : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 (*) : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
(*) available for both default and HQ versions
(**) full for HQ versions but only partial for default game but you can install skins with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(***) available for HQ versions only here but you can install skins (not the 3D updates) for default cars with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(****) HQ cars are only available in GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH, you can only install HQ tracks with HQ MODS COLLECTION
Disk space requirement : 1.03 Go for this patch (+1.64 Go for base game = 2.67 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available in the HQ Anniversary Patch (HDR 4k Skies, HQ DAYTIME HEADLIGHTS, HQ F360 SOUNDS, and HQ BRAKES/HEADLIGHTS/HUD/LENS FLARE/SAFETY CAR/START LIGHTS/SCREEN DIRT/TREAD/AMBIENT SHADOW/BACKFIRE/MIRROR/SPARK variants) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
You can also add the 2005 season : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-2005-fiagt-mod.32765/
and updated Dx9 tracks by Bjarne : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/base-tracks-dx9ed.34317/
ONLINE INFORMATION :
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Default game will only get few HQ textures updates which give NO ONLINE MISMATCH.
Nevertheless all the 3D rework (bigger brake discs/calipers, motec, etc...), and deep AI tweaks in AIW/HDC/TYR can give online mismatch so all these modifications are only available in HQ Cars&Tracks to avoid online mismatch.
GTR2 is more than 10 years old now and SimBin lobby online server is definitely closed : this means that your only chance to play GTR2 online nowadays is to join a GTR2 league such as koelschbierbude.de by example (native german website but you will always find helpful people who speak english, moreover click on UNION JACK at the top to translate forum menu in ENGLISH).
Due to specific league files updater, if you experience online mismatch with your favorite GTR2 league then :
- edit your PLR file in GTR2\UserData\USERNAME.PLR with notepad, go to line 529 at "Report Mismatches=" and set it to "0"
- if online mismatch still occurs then ask your league manager to add GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH files to the server
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
here is the recommended treatment by your doctor :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 Reborn MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Boris Vorontsov for ENBSeries
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on Reborn physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask from his 2005 mod with kind permission
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR advice, driver arms GMT, nice DTM2018 showroom floor and MC12 colored LEDs
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, and new gfx shaders
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for smart XD tool
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
--------------------------------
Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, cangrejin, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO.
SOFTWARE USED
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- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.
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| GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH v14.0 by GTR233 and friends |
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ULTRA VERY IMPORTANT : READ "GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH_install.txt" and follow EXACTLY the steps if you have never installed GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH...otherwise you will cry and post in forums "GTR2 CRASHED PLEASE HELP!" or "CARS ARE GREY PLEASE HELP!"... so PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY INFORMATIONS AND OPTIONS, IT IS QUITE COMPLEX FOR NEWBIES.
This archive was compressed with 7-zip archiver v19.00 so you need at least v19.00 to extract archive without errors (update your archiver if it tells you that the archive is corrupted) : https://www.7-zip.org (I recommend to NOT download ALPHA versions, leave them to devs)
Archive size = 496 Mo
Archive MD5 hash = c53a652042fa95d1239fbe7c271c11c1
SPECIAL THANKS to all people who worked for Blimey! Games & SimBin Sweden : David Wright, DucFreak, Doug Arnao, Mark Reynolds, Eric Boosman... and the big bosses Henrik Roos & Ian Bell for having made such legendary sims !
Last Changelog
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v14.0
- We are in 2020 so no more 10th anniversary but 14th anniversary of GTR2, this is the reason why I decided to change the name of the mod from "GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch" to "GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch" which reflects the reality a bit more as only HQ game benefits from all the patches I have put in along the years. Indeed base 2003-2004 game remains quite stock with very few updates (some textures are shared and cannot be isolated like skies and few steering wheels by example)
- updated DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary to v9.0 : added HQ anniversary RED/BLUE/GREEN themes (thanks to Bjarne/DurgeDriven for advices)
- updated GTR2 HQ BRAKES to v3.0 : reworked brembo_01.dds skin and added brembo GT 2004 skin
- updated GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES to v18.0 : reworked GT3R-RS-RSR cockpit doors, mosler steering wheel, morgan top dash alcantara, corvette carbon dash and steering wheel, BMW Z3 dash, Seat cockpit DASH/DOORS
- updated HQ FOV DEFVIEWS to v11.0 : disabled shake
- updated GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks to v14.0 :
-> new HQ anniversary logo to celebrate the 14th anniversary
-> fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT (thanks to fruitbirb for reporting bug)
-> new sun lighting with higher contrast and darker shadows, removed spa invisible wall in pits
-> updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts and display
-> added/reworked cube maps reflections to all displays in all cockpits
-> updated Mosler/Morgan leds
-> updated 996CUP #123/124 safety net
-> added secondary GTL lap timer to all Stack cockpits (elise/mosler/GT3R)
-> added red zone to Stack
-> added rev limit to MoTeC
-> added mosler logos on steering wheel and tachometer
-> updated Seat, GT3R-RSR and MC12 steering wheel position
-> moved Vertigo gear display a bit on the right for better visibility
-> added brembo GT 2004 skin to GTs
-> fixed some 14 years old bugs :
>> fixed corvette black polygon on right door (thanks to Peter van de Kolk for reporting bug)
>> fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
>> fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
>> fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
>> broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
>> chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
>> center mirror in 350z
- added new options :
-> GTR2 desktop icon v2 with original style
-> new UI-Themes, just unzip to activate it in HQ BLUE, HQ RED, HQ GREEN, 10th Anniversary or stock
-> added 7 plugins presets available for different combos, just extract zip and overwrite files to activate preset of your choice
-> added [GTR2_NAP_1.4_PATCH_by_Barry&Chronus] to fix reversed min/max values in latpeak/longpeak (thanks to barry)
Description :
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Developped on Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon64x2 5600+ (dual core 2.8GHz) with nvidia 9800GT 512Mo (8800/9800GT were the high end nvidia card when GTR2 was released so I do not recommend this mod with poor Intel integrated graphics but it will work great with last AMD APU 3200G-Vega8 and above as tested by my friend DurgeDriven).
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH represents 5 years of work (nearly 10 000 FILES!!!) and includes all the necessary MODS/PATCHES for GTR2 plus tons of HQ textures. There are 2 games in 1, first the default 2003-2004 game with stock cars and tracks which get only few textures updates, second the HQ Cars&Tracks (with "HQ" prefix in menu) which get ALL the fixes/patches, more HQ textures plus exclusive graphics (both 2D/3D) : indeed, my will is to keep original game untouched to avoid online mismatch on internet and to see all the work done so far in this HQ Anniversary Patch when you compare both.
Included :
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- OFFICIAL EUROPEAN SIMBIN PATCH v1.1 + NOCD by Reloaded + 4GB PATCH by Daniel Pistelli = IF YOUR LIFE IS GREY THEN HQ Anniversary PATCH is what you need
- MS Dx9/dll from 2010 packages to improve GTR2 compatibility with some OS/plugins
- GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION :
-> DucFreak's GTR2 UI MOD HQ Anniversary v9.0 (*) : nicer 16/9 UI with triple screen support (only basic tweak to avoid CTD, GTR2 HUD will be stretched so disable it and use XD plugin instead), available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian). Plus pit chief audio translation for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish & Russian.
-> GTR2 HDR 2k Skies v8.0 (*) : nice 6e66o & Hudson Kerr skies reworked with HDR effect in 2k resolution (2048*2048), plus my scratched made night skies, moon and sun. If you want the 4k version then download HQ MOD COLLECTION but you need a powerful computer because 4k skies can give suttering on slow machines.
-> GTR2 HQ AI v4.2 (*) : better AI Talents (for GTR2 cars only), these tweaks will not be applied to 3rd party MODS you can install afterward because most of them won't use these drivers, keep in mind it is only talents drivers tweaks here. I mean there are many other AI tweaks in other files like AIW/GDB/HDC/TYR (patched in HQ Cars&Tracks) and PLR by example.
-> GTR2 HQ BRAKES v3.0 (***) : realistic brake disc/caliper/discglow skins in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ Cars&Tracks v14.0 (****) : better cars & tracks physics/graphics/AI tweaks with advanced patches/fixes.
-> GTR2 HQ CARS SOUNDS v1.1 (*) : added brake (Jandri)/skid (Fred_as)/horn/external tranny sounds & fixed overlapping sound issue when needed.
-> GTR2 HQ HEADLIGHTS v6.0 (***) : better headlights in higher resolution (LASER WHITE+YELLOW) patched to avoid halo glitch.
-> GTR2 HQ HUD 10th Anniversary v6.1 (*) : new head-up-display skin (mk2) available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish & Hungarian).
-> GTR2 HQ LENS FLARE v10.1 (*) : nicer sun effects in higher resolution (max effects around 5-6pm).
-> GTR2 HQ MARBLES v1.0 (***) : now you will really see marbles on track side in higher resolution.
-> GTR2 HQ MASERATI 4200GT SAFETY CAR v5.0 (*) : more detailed safety car skin (2003).
-> GTR2 HQ PIT & START LIGHTS v3.0 (*) : better start lights (F1 style).
-> GTR2 HQ RAIN v13.0 (**) : nicer rain effects in higher resolution. Note that tracks lighting needs to be tweaked to get maximum water effect : by example, as in real, you cannot see your opponents in long straights when you are behind them with HQ Tracks at 100% rain.
-> GTR2 HQ SCREEN DIRT v9.0 (***) : dirt effect with smooth transitions in higher resolution (VERY DIRTY). Note that "VERY DIRTY" means more dirt than "DIRTY" version but there will be less visible dirt on windscreen than stock game in order to make layers transitions quite invisible laps after laps.
-> GTR2 HQ SPARCO SUITS 2018 v1.4 (***) : nicer racing suits/gloves/shoes in 4k for driver, and pit crew/marshalls.
-> GTR2 HQ TREAD v4.0 (***) : more detailed tire tread in higher resolution (WITH GRAVELS). Now every compound skin is different on contrary to stock game which shows same skin for all rain compounds.
-> GTR2 MULTI-PATCHES v18.0 (**) : patches for bugs/glitches that official patch v1.1 did not fix, plus many HQ textures.
-> GTR2 UIAssets Patch v1.0 (*) : removed FNTCMOTM.BMP to allow skinned LCD. Note that this tweak is not directly visible but that unlocks motec skins.
-> HQ AMBIENT SHADOW v3.0 (*) : smallest second shadow under cars in higher resolution (LARGE version). By default the shadow is too large and exceeds car body which is on contrary to optical laws.
-> HQ BACKFIRE v4.0 (***) : reworked flames on exhaust (RED-BLUE version).
-> HQ CUBE MAPS v6.0 (*) : better detailed car/track reflections in higher resolution.
-> HQ FOV DEFVIEWS v11.0 (*) : no more in car headlight flickering at night and FOV choice (please see README). Note that textures flickering will depend on both the track used and the ClipPlanes : HQ Tracks have got less flickering than default because higher ClipPlanes show less flickering.
-> HQ MIRROR v1.0 (*) : rear view mirrors in higher resolution (1024).
-> HQ SMOKES v5.0 (*) : better dust & smokes effects in higher resolution.
-> HQ SPARK v7.0 (*) : more detailed sparks effects in higher resolution (SPARK & STARS version).
(*) available for both default and HQ versions
(**) full for HQ versions but only partial for default game but you can install skins with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(***) available for HQ versions only here but you can install skins (not the 3D updates) for default cars with HQ MODS COLLECTION
(****) HQ cars are only available in GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH, you can only install HQ tracks with HQ MODS COLLECTION
Disk space requirement : 1.15 Go for this patch (+default game which is 1.64 Go = 2.85 Go)
This GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch is a basis then you can fine tune options with GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION which includes some extra content not available in the HQ Anniversary Patch (HDR 4k Skies, HQ DAYTIME HEADLIGHTS, HQ F360 SOUNDS, and HQ BRAKES/HEADLIGHTS/HUD/LENS FLARE/SAFETY CAR/START LIGHTS/SCREEN DIRT/TREAD/AMBIENT SHADOW/BACKFIRE/MIRROR/SPARK variants) : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-hq-mods-collection.32658/
You can also add the 2005 season : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/gtr2-2005-fiagt-mod.32765/
and updated Dx9 tracks by Bjarne : https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/base-tracks-dx9ed.34317/
Usage Disclaimer :
------------------
This mod is PRIVATE (need registration to RACEDEPARTMENT.COM to download it), this is a non-profit work made by passion for old gem GTR2 and provided as is, without warranty of any kind, use it at your own risk.
You are permitted to install and play this mod for private home use only, any commercial or public uses are forbidden.
It is forbidden to convert/modify any materials, or use it as part of another mod without written permission.
The original source is only available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM : https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/gtr2-10th-anniversary-patch.152429/
Archive was tested with Kaspersky AV and to be sure that the archive you have downloaded was not modified then compare MD5 checksum with the one available at RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
"NO VR NO BUY" SYNDROME
-----------------------
here is the recommended treatment by your doctor :
GTR2 - GTR 2 & GT Legends Oculus Rift CV1 Setup Tutorial for vorpX
I. Get game(s) running well in Windows Set affinity using preferred app, (I use Radeon Pro) Use CFF explorer to allow GTR2.exe and GTL.exe to accept more ram. Check - App can handle >2gb address space, and then save. For GT Legends in Windows 10, I had to switch compatibility to Windows 7...
Credits (alphabetical order) :
------------------------------
6e66o for kind permission to use his nice sky pack
@Gr0 for advices on GT3R & kind permission to use 996 stack dash mod
alex69722 for Russian UI
alexz for Autosim Weather Generator
ArmedLightning for kind permission to use his AL SPECIAL FX
Art (aka Arthur Stepanov) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting, HQ HUD Russian translation, RSR hood/door fixes, TVR rain screen fix, new GMT brakes (lot of work) and new GMT ARMS with 2 shoes
Astreon for his nice fonts from MFD tweaks (2009)
Barry (aka barryg) for kind permission to include GTR2 REBORN MOD by IRG (2011) and NAPmod tyres fix
Boris Vorontsov for ENBSeries
Chopchop (aka Ceaffinc) for kind permission to use his #69 Proton Spa liveries
Chronus for his work on REBORN physics and detailed explanations at nogrip which helped me to understand how it works
Cristian Luis, simracing.pl/Skandre and Petr Nidecky for Czech/Polish translations
Culmone67 & DrivingItalia.net for HD track textures
Daniel Pistelli for 4GB patch
David Wright for advices and kind permission to use some parts of POWER & GLORY mod by GTL WORKSHOP
derDumeklemmer for kind permission to use his Oschersleben start lights fix & Enna moveable tyres
DucFreak for advices/help and for kind permission to use his nice GTR2 UI MOD
DurgeDriven for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
Fazerbox for GTR2MapPlugin
F1mate2 for 80 extra lines hungarian translation
Fred_as for kind permission to use his HD track backgrounds & squealing tyre sounds
GTR233 for GTR2 HQ MODS COLLECTION and updates/fixes
Guimengo for some extra Portuguese translations
Hudson Kerr for kind permission to use his wonderful skies
Jandri for kind permission to use his nice brakes sounds
Jon Denton & AutoSimSport for NAPmod (2006)
jtsn for Changing weather patch
Júlio Santos for Portuguese Pit Chief Audio translation
leon_90 (Davide Nativo) for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and support since the beginning
LeSunTzu for murcielago body mask from his 2005 mod with kind permission
Luzperfecta for UI advanced FFB settings
Mach77 for advices and beta tests on HQ cars to match real lap times
NASA for their nice moon picture from Apollo 11
Oversteer for his nice fonts and leds from ORDM (2008)
Petes László for kind permission to use original hungarian translation
Philipp for advices & kind permission to use his 996 fixes
Redi for GTR2 manual scan
Reloaded for NOCD
Renato Simioni for improved tyre slip curves in Race
Scorpyo for UIAssets.GTR advice, driver arms GMT, nice DTM2018 showroom floor and MC12 colored LEDs
Shovas for advices/beta testing/bug reporting and kind permission to include his PLR FFB settings
SIDstalker for kind permission to use his nice DTM2018 showroom floor
Spad for his MoTeC Project
Syhlif32 (aka Bjarne Hansen) for original idea of the 10th Anniversary Patch, advices/beta testing/bug reporting, M3GTR mirror cube maps fix, F575 steering wheel cube maps fix, arms GMT fix, mosler cockpit cube maps fix, and new gfx shaders
unseen/NacK for kind permission to use Default GTR2 tracks black terrain fix
Velo for defviews info and SceneLighting ColorMatch tool
vondutch51 for his work on AI which helped me to understand how it works
Yako for smart XD tool
Advices/bug reporting/feedback :
--------------------------------
Apollion, Barcika (aka carTOON), bobwilliams, Crimson764, cyrac1, DrKruntz, fruitbirb, GP STONER, hkmp57, Iain Marshall, ical_everon, Jempy, jgf, Jon c, JorritVD, Kenny Paton, LeGhoul, leslav2012, Miguel Batista, mildrew2, NeelJ, Peter van de Kolk, Razgriz (aka Menrva), revar, Spinelli, Starraider, sunalp2, TzZyO.
SOFTWARE USED
-------------
- 3DSimED by Dave Noonan http://www.sim-garage.co.uk/
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
- NOTEPAD++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
GTR233, 2020.