**IMPORTANT NOTE: This only works for tracks you've already saved a personal best on before deleting files, otherwise the game crashes. **
Hey guys, I posted this at CM's forum. From what I can tell, noone knows how to disable ghostcars completely. I seem to have discovered a way to do it.
I've been experimenting with folders.
Do this at your own risk.
But if you follow my instructions, you should be fine.
This is for PC players.
Firstly, launch game, go to 'My F1'/edit profile, and disable autosave and disable save ghostcars, save the changes, and exit game.
Next, go to C:/Users/yourname/My Documents/My Games/FormulaOne/savegame and you should see four folders, two Autosave and two PB. BACK THEM ALL UP FIRST! See screenshot:
Autosave & Personal Best folders
Once backed up, delete the two PB folders only, as in screenshot:
Personal Best folders
Now go to your main game folder, (Mine is C:/Games/Steam/Steam/steamapps/common/f1 2010)
and BACKUP the 'ghostlaps' folder first! Once backed up, delete it, see screenshot:
Ghostlaps
Load up the game, go to time trial, select your car and track. You'll still see your personal best time, but when you press continue you'll see this:
Then it'll go into the game. Load your car setup if you have one saved, and once on the track, you won't see anything in the top left of the screen except your name. No ghostcar.
Enable autosave again while keeping 'save ghost cars' to 'OFF'. It then gave me the usual autosave message about how all data will be autosaved and not to switch off while it saves. After that, I loaded time trial again, got the message in my screenshot again that I posted above which says ' ghost lap autoload failed', continued to the track, and no ghost car. Came back to 'My F1' and checked my edit profile to see if autosave was still on (yep) and save ghost cars was still off (yep). So, this should still update your new times, but with no ghost car to worry about.
And the icing on the cake is, you can still download and race against any ghost car when in time trial, even your own from the leaderboard. When you exit time trial and reload it, you'll still have no ghostcar on the track unless you download one again. So you now have the best of both worlds
Lemme know if it works for you. It should do. Works for me. When you want to revert everything, just put all your backup files back in the same places you deleted them from, that's PB folders and ghostlaps folder. Even replace your backup Autosave folders if anything goes wrong. I tested this by then replacing my ghostlap folder, autosave and PB folders, and everything was as before.
Hey guys, I posted this at CM's forum. From what I can tell, noone knows how to disable ghostcars completely. I seem to have discovered a way to do it.
I've been experimenting with folders.
Do this at your own risk.
But if you follow my instructions, you should be fine.
This is for PC players.
Firstly, launch game, go to 'My F1'/edit profile, and disable autosave and disable save ghostcars, save the changes, and exit game.
Next, go to C:/Users/yourname/My Documents/My Games/FormulaOne/savegame and you should see four folders, two Autosave and two PB. BACK THEM ALL UP FIRST! See screenshot:
Autosave & Personal Best folders
Once backed up, delete the two PB folders only, as in screenshot:
Personal Best folders
Now go to your main game folder, (Mine is C:/Games/Steam/Steam/steamapps/common/f1 2010)
and BACKUP the 'ghostlaps' folder first! Once backed up, delete it, see screenshot:
Ghostlaps
Load up the game, go to time trial, select your car and track. You'll still see your personal best time, but when you press continue you'll see this:
Then it'll go into the game. Load your car setup if you have one saved, and once on the track, you won't see anything in the top left of the screen except your name. No ghostcar.
Enable autosave again while keeping 'save ghost cars' to 'OFF'. It then gave me the usual autosave message about how all data will be autosaved and not to switch off while it saves. After that, I loaded time trial again, got the message in my screenshot again that I posted above which says ' ghost lap autoload failed', continued to the track, and no ghost car. Came back to 'My F1' and checked my edit profile to see if autosave was still on (yep) and save ghost cars was still off (yep). So, this should still update your new times, but with no ghost car to worry about.
And the icing on the cake is, you can still download and race against any ghost car when in time trial, even your own from the leaderboard. When you exit time trial and reload it, you'll still have no ghostcar on the track unless you download one again. So you now have the best of both worlds
Lemme know if it works for you. It should do. Works for me. When you want to revert everything, just put all your backup files back in the same places you deleted them from, that's PB folders and ghostlaps folder. Even replace your backup Autosave folders if anything goes wrong. I tested this by then replacing my ghostlap folder, autosave and PB folders, and everything was as before.
