GTL with Windows 7

Tom Wilson · Oct 24, 2009

Guess what?

After months and months of fine tuning their brand spanking new OS to make it uber compatible with every known application on earth, Microsoft have gone and ballsed it all up again.

GTL will not install in windows 7, at all.

Setup runs fine, then when i go to reboot, 7 fails to load and it goes into auto repair mode which does a system restore to undo the installation.

I have read up and it seems this is an issue with starforce drivers not being compatible, i've tried removing them and updating them but it jsut says that there are no drivers installed.

Is anyone else running GTL on 7, or do they know of a solution to this issue? Just under a week until RDHGP kicks off, either starforce or MS better get writing some patches!!!!

Thanks in advance,
Tom

Brian Duddy · Dec 15, 2010

That would be great, but it never worked for me no matter what I tried, and apparently it isn't working for them either. I -think- it was this thread I used (already posted earlier in the thread), and I don't have any sound problems at all...

http://petrolmania.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=116

Warren Dawes · Dec 15, 2010

bduddy said:
I -think- it was this thread I used (already posted earlier in the thread), and I don't have any sound problems at all...

http://petrolmania.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=116

Yep, in the end I used the instructions supplied by Den (the thread linked to petrolmania) and it worked fine, after installing the Sound files he supplied. :good:

J-F Chardon · Dec 15, 2010

Ryan Callan said:
OR you can always go the very easy way and use the version released by the German magazine.

Completely legal.

Are you sure it's legal? Because I'm not.

I downloaded the game from your torrent and it never prompts for an activation key.

Ivo Simons · Dec 15, 2010

I needed a activation key for it.

J-F Chardon · Dec 15, 2010

Then it's probably because I had it already in Win registry

Nevermind me then.

Tom Wilson · Dec 16, 2010

Thanks Stu!

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 19, 2010

I think Tom fixed GTL

Bram Hengeveld · Dec 24, 2010

Maybe better to ask here Jolin: http://www.racedepartment.com/tech-discussion/

Ravix · Dec 27, 2010

Well, i'm affraid i'm doing something wrong so please help me

after downloading GTL_Light i'm unpacking it and copying into GTL folder (there is no install option)

i have no decompress.bat file either in GTL Folders or whole computer

Brian Duddy · Dec 28, 2010

The GTL_Light provided does not have that file.

Ondrej Kapal · Jan 7, 2011

This is interesting thing, the tutorial described here isnt working and is very complicated and bad to use....
I would rewrite it to this form, its as fast as easy

Ondrej Kapal said:
I used this:
first, save your current UIDATA somewhere else....
then download this file http://petrolmania.co.uk/files/gtl.7z
now put everything from the ZIP file to your GTL install dir folder, overwrite everything and use DECOMPRESS.BAT file
wait until done
then try if the game is running, if so, get back your saved UIDATA and rewrite those in GTL folder
this should work even with StarForce installed (I did it so)

overall:
NOTE: DONT START THE GAME UNTIL YOU ARE DONE WITH THIS PROCEDURE, YOU WILL AVOID INSTALLING STARFORCE
1. install GTL
2. install patch
3. save your UIData
4. download http://petrolmania.co.uk/files/gtl.7z
5. put everything from ZIP file to your install folder of GTL and overwrite everything
6. start DECOMPRESS.BAT and wait until done
7. copy back UIData and overwrite everything
8. play!

This works even if you start the game and install the StarForce.... no need to uninstall it or to delete any register

pdr · Jan 16, 2011

Ondrej Kapal said:
This is interesting thing, the tutorial described here isnt working and is very complicated and bad to use....
I would rewrite it to this form, its as fast as easy

overall:
NOTE: DONT START THE GAME UNTIL YOU ARE DONE WITH THIS PROCEDURE, YOU WILL AVOID INSTALLING STARFORCE
1. install GTL
2. install patch
3. save your UIData
4. download http://petrolmania.co.uk/files/gtl.7z
5. put everything from ZIP file to your install folder of GTL and overwrite everything
6. start DECOMPRESS.BAT and wait until done
7. copy back UIData and overwrite everything
8. play!

This works even if you start the game and install the StarForce.... no need to uninstall it or to delete any register

Well it almost worked...only thing is when you start the game after the intro the screen turns black (menu music in background).
Any suggestions? I already tried to change resolution settings in the config.file but without any result.

Joshua Cross · Jan 19, 2011

I recently bought gtl so that I could use it in the Historic GT mod for rFactor.

I know I'm going to sound like an idiot but I have tried all of the steps mentioned but to no avail. I just keep getting the windows recovery screen.

Ondrej Kapal · Jan 19, 2011

pdr
yes I felt this issue also, the problem is with the step n°7. - when you copy back the UIData, there is one file which causes this... To make it works delete in UIData folder "legal.bmp" + "gtlui.mnu" (not sure which one is that but you wont damage anything if you will do that for both of them) and replace them with those from the ZIP folder in step n°4

lukeb9433 · Feb 22, 2011

Gtl Problems

hi! I know this thread is kinda old, but I have a question.. I used the installation instuctions for windows 7 sucssesfully, but now when I click on play, nothing happens. What is going on?

Paul Nowland · Feb 23, 2011

More info... nothing happens as in it just flat out doesn't do anything, or you get the black screen like described above?

lukeb9433 · Feb 23, 2011

Paul Nowland said:
More info... nothing happens as in it just flat out doesn't do anything, or you get the black screen like described above?

It just flat out does nothing... The little hourglass/spiral just turns for about 5 seconds and then nothing. I've tried so many things that i think I may just start over and try again..

And by the way, all the petrolmania links are down.. it looks like the site is no more...

Paul Nowland · Feb 24, 2011

I'm having no problems getting to petrolmania... strange.

Paul Joseph · Feb 24, 2011

Here's another problem for you guys to get your teeth into!

I've got GTL installed on Win 7 64-bit and it's all updated/patched and working fine . . . apart from when I put in the 'all cars/tracks and money' patch.

When I choose a car in the game in single player it's fine, however, when I try and go online it always chooses the same car 'BMW 2800CS' regardless of what I've asked for or what the server specifies. If I delete the BMW 2800CS folder it just moves to a Capri and won't change. After this has happened I get the same problem in single player. It's not until I delete the 'all cars/tracks and money' patch that it starts to work again.

The game works perfectly apart from this. It prevents me from even driving a single practice lap before I go online, which makes it difficult, especially if I don't know a track or have never driven the car involved.

Has anyone else had this issue? I've read just a couple of threads on the web (all I could find) with a similar problem, but none offer any kind of solution.