GPxLap

At The Line

At The Line can be activated by pressing '9' during the game, and deactivated by pressing '0'. When activated, pressing '9' again will cycle through four pages: standings sorted by track order, fastest lap times, lap times, and standings sorted by race position.

Pressing 'U' will toggle between split times and sector times. In the standings screens 'U' will toggle between showing and hiding retired drivers. Also in the standings screens, 'Y' will toggle between showing and hiding computer controlled cars.

In non-race sessions there are two pages: fastest lap times and lap times. The lap time page only shows the cars that are on the track. The magenta number in the second column indicates the qualify position.

Before each car appears a 'P' if it's the player car, and '> <' in yellow if it's the selected car. In the standings page, the L/S column means lap/sector, where sector is 0, 1 or 2, depending which split has been passed. The status column shows extra information, like pit information, failures, and retirements. After the race position can appear a magenta '1', '2', or '3', etc, which indicates the fastest lap position, so those are the x fastest cars on the track. The same numbers appear in the lap time table. In the fastest lap table these numbers indicate the race position.

In hotseat mode, an extra row at the top is inserted that shows the number of turns left (initially the number of players multiplied with the number of turns specified in the menu options), the current state, and the time left until the next state begins. Examples of states are the period in which "Automatic in..." is shown, or the period in which a player has control. You can jump directly to the next state with the key LAP_HotseatJump (default 'J'). Note that the game calculates the time a driver has control using the number of turns left and the number of laps left, so each time you skip to the next turn the turns get longer.

Also in the standings page you will see each line can change color. The line is colored white if the car is in the same sector as the leader, light gray if it's one sector behind, and gray if it's two sectors or more behind. It's red if the car is out of the race.

To see more cars, use the TAB key to make the list bigger, or shift+TAB to make it smaller. Use the keypad cursor up and down keys to scroll through the drivers (this will also remove the 'lock' on the selected car). Keypad 5 will enable the lock on the selected car to stay in the middle of the list (on by default). Keypad cursor left and right change the opacity (alpha) of the background panel.

Note that in a replay the race positions could be in the wrong order. This is because the game doesn't update the race positions at the start of the replay.

Quicksave and autosave

If autosave is enabled, a quicksave is done automatically each time the race leader starts a new lap. The name of this autosave game will be gpsaves\quicksaves\autosave. Only works in race sessions.

Extended games

The extended data can be viewed outside the game using HOFxLap.

Checksums

• Init. Includes all physics data (editable with the physics editor).
• Car. Includes the car shape (not used for GP4). A different car shape shouldn't give any advantage though, so this checksum should probably not be used.
• Damage. Includes all damage settings data.
• CC. Includes all data from performance files: car power per team, failure probabilities per team, driver skill values, and driver inconsistency values.

Unique ID

On-screen log viewer

Text logging

SectionName,SectionData

SectionName can be one of the following:

GameStart

Version is incremented in case the log format changes in later versions.

GameEnd

• Version 1+: Timestamp.

TrackLoad

• Version 1+: Timestamp,TrackNr,Checksum,TrackName.

SessionStart

• Version 1: Timestamp,SessionMode.
• Version 2+: Timestamp,SessionMode,SessionLaps,TrackLength.

SessionLoad

• Version 1+: Timestamp,SessionMode,SessionTime,FileName.

Standings

• Version 8+: Timestamp,LapNr,SessionTime,CarNr1,CarNr2,...,CarNr22.

Lap

• SD: Soft Dry.
• HD: Hard Dry.
• I: Intermediate.
• SW: Soft Wet.
• HW: Hard Wet.
• M: Monsoon.

• Version 1, 2: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SplitTime1,SplitTime2,LapTime,SessionTime.
• Version 3: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SplitTime1,SplitTime2,LapTime,SessionTime,MinSpeed,MaxSpeed.
• Version 4: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SplitTime1,SplitTime2,LapTime,SessionTime,MinSpeed,MaxSpeed,Speed1,Speed2,Speed3.
• Version 5: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SplitTime1,SplitTime2,LapTime,SessionTime,MinSpeed,MaxSpeed,Speed1,Speed2,Speed3,FuelLaps.
• Version 6: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SplitTime1,SplitTime2,LapTime,SessionTime,MinSpeed,MaxSpeed,Speed1,Speed2,Speed3,FuelLaps,Temperature.
• Version 7+: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SplitTime1,SplitTime2,LapTime,SessionTime,MinSpeed,MaxSpeed,Speed1,Speed2,Speed3,FuelLaps,Temperature,TyreType.

Entry

• Version 1, 2, 3, 4: CarType,CarNr,DriverName,TeamName,EngineName,FrontWing,RearWing,BrakeBias,Gear1,Gear2,Gear3,Gear4,Gear5,Gear6.
• Version 5+: CarType,CarNr,DriverName,TeamName,EngineName,TyreManufacturer,FrontWing,RearWing,BrakeBias,Gear1,Gear2,Gear3,Gear4,Gear5,Gear6.

PitIn

• Version 1+: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SessionTime.

PitOut

• Version 1+: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SessionTime.

Retired

• Version 8+: Timestamp,LapNr,CarType,CarNr,RacePos,FastLapPos,SessionTime.

Split times in race

In-car setup changes

Use the user-configurable L (LAP_ToggleSetupMenuOnOff) key to toggle between showing and hiding the in-car setup menu in the bottom left corner of the screen. Use Shift+L to do the same for the pit setup menu. When hidden, a change will temporarily show the new setting. The duration can be changed in gpxlap.ini.

In-car setup menu

Use the F1 key to select an item, and the F3 and F4 key to move it down/backwards or up/forwards, respectively. The step size is the same as in the game's car setup menu. Pressing both F3 and F4 at the same time will reset the setting to the setup value. Since these keys are already used by GPx itself (to toggle auto-brake, auto-spin and indestructability), they will only work if these driver aids are disabled (e.g. by driving on ace level). The reason these keys are used is that they are recorded by GPx for replays and hotlaps. This way the setup adjustments are also applied during those replays and hotlaps. To support older hotlaps or hotlaps with this feature disabled, a saved game will contain a version number that's tied to this feature. When a game or hotlap is loaded, the version number is also loaded from that game, and will be used until a new session is started. Since the version number is stored in the extended GPxLap data, authentication must be enabled for this feature to work.

Because the changes are done directly in the internal car data, the changes are not saved to the setup.

Pit setup menu

At the moment, the menu is linear. In the future this could change to a more user friendly system. Use the \ key to select the next item (with the Shift key it will select the previous item). Use the [ and ] keys to change an item. Pressing both will reset to the minimum or maximum value, depending on which you pressed first. Unlike the in-car setup menu, trying to change while the menu is not visible will not change anything, but just show the menu first.

By default, the menu edits the setup symmetrically. If you prefer asymmetrical editing, it's possible to change this in gpxlap.ini.

Like the game's setup menu, the plank and tyre wear is also shown. This is even shown while driving. For qualify and race sessions, it will be hidden by default (it can be toggled on and off with Shift+L). The show/hidden state is remembered for qualify, race and practice separately.

The setup menu is disabled in the race.

Save/Restore car state

It should work in all sessions except qualify and race.

The default key to save is Shift+Backspace and to restore is Backspace.

It's possible that hotlaps fail to work, even if you restore before the s/f line. It seems that using a longer replay duration makes it far less likely though.

Configuration options

• Enable authentication. Enables extended saved games and hotlaps, mostly for use in leagues. Also needed for in-car setup changes.
• Log unique ID. Enables logging of a unique id within the extended data.
• Enable in-car setup changes. See above for an explanation. Authentication required, as well as disabled F1, F3 and F4 driver aids.
• Enable save/restore car state. Enables the ability to save and restore the player's car state.
• Enable autosave. Enables autosaving the game each lap.
• Show best split time in qualify. Show the split time of the pole sitter instead of your own best split time during qualifying. It's like the GP2Split utility for GP2, by Martin Granberg. Disabled in GP3-2000.
• Enable external view in pitlane. Normally, GP3 switches to the cockpit when you're driving near or on the pitlane. This check disables that behavior.
• Fix pitstop bug for race. GP4 only: if checked an attempt is done to fix the pitstop bug in GP4. The result is that you won't be stuck in the pits anymore during a race. However, a side effect is that you will be able to drive away earlier during pitstops in the race than you can without this fix. Even when you have a broken rear wing you can drive away early (with a fixed wing). For non-race sessions the result is that you can drive away from the pits earlier. For unlimited practice this is always enabled, even if this option is turned off. Note: This option is logged into saved games and hotlaps.
• Hide replay menu (Not available for GP3). Will hide the replay menu by default (replay info icons). Can still be toggled in-game using F9.
• Text logging. Check to enable text logging. Additional options are Mode to specify where data should be logged, File to specify the log file name, and Append to file to specify if new log data should be appended to the log file or not.
• ATL font. Select the font to use in the ATL screen ('9'). Fonts can be edited on the GPxPatch tab.
• Log font. Select the font to use in the log screen ('2'). Fonts can be edited on the GPxPatch tab.
• ATL panel color. Select the color to use for the ATL panel. Default is black.
• Engine temperature. Press this button to specify how the engine (water) temperature changes. The maximum is when it blows up (if engine failures are enabled in the game). For the other ones just play around with them and you'll see what they do. Clearing a value will reset it to the default.
• RCR distances. Press this button to set the distance at which the RCR jams are shown instead of the normal car model. Chosing a shorter distance might improve your PO. There's a setting for each camera type.

Advanced options