![]() ![]() I played Race Driver: GRID for hours and hours, going through that excellent career mode. It wasn’t all about the online though, obviously. We all laughed when the “terminal damage” message came up on-screen, because we knew who it was without seeing the gamertag pop up. One friend even earned the nickname “Terminal Damage” as not an evening went by, without him writing off his car in at least one or two races. San Francisco destroyed our suspension and steering, Jarama had us laughing at the resident corner-cutter, and Washington provided one spectacular moment including one car flying through the air in a barrel roll, while another passed by underneath in an exquisite feat of daring. I had already played the game a lot, so I tended to win most races (not bragging, it’s simply due to me having the most experience with the game) but the laughs we had rendered the competition moot. However, once a few friends picked up the game during a particularly good Xbox digital sale, some incredible memories were made online. I rarely played online back then, indeed it wasn’t until probably a year later that I even began subscribing to Xbox Live. Whatever the reasons, I developed a real passion for Race Driver: GRID. Perhaps it was the ability to race in several different disciplines, effectively mashing together a bunch of different gameplay styles to make it feel like I was getting multiple games in one package. Perhaps it was the distinct art style, with that golden haze over everything. I don’t remember what initially drew me to the game, or why I even decided to spend my hard-earned money on it, but I’m so glad I did. The game that sparked this love of the race? Race Driver: GRID. Many of these series continued into the PS2 era, but it wasn’t until the Xbox 360 that my love of racing games truly began. When I hit my teens, it was all about the original Playstation’s Gran Turismo, Destruction Derby, Formula One (loved that Murray Walker commentary), Colin McRae Rally and 1997’s excellent TOCA Touring Car Championship, as well as more arcadey affairs like the criminally overlooked Rally Cross. I never owned a SNES, so can’t count Mario Kart as I didn’t play it until much later. When I was a kid, it was Micro Machines, Super Off Road and Road Rash. I also found a different patch version 1.3 which is probably for a different language so i'll try that one too.I’ve always enjoyed a good racing game, as you might expect of God is a Geek’s resident racing fan. LAN refuses to work on any windows 10 圆4 computer for me (not checked on windows x32 yet). I also own the original game on dvd and installed it from there and then applied the 1.3 patch but still nothing. Filename is setup_race_driver_grid_2.1.0.8 and has patch 1.3.0 already applied. I checked and GOG's version is also patched to latest 1.3. Seems as if GOG drops support of games no longer sold on their site. But I don't know if installing the patch works with a DRM free version of the game. Looking in my library I see that the GOG version is v1.0 (not the latest version). It sais if this error appears, you have to apply the latest patch v1.3. Silverhawk170485: I searched in Google and found this site: I don't really wanna set up a virtual online connection to emulate the old closed down servers, i'm just trying to make the LAN settings work. Now I know this game is perfectly capable of working on win10 (i tried it on some friend's pc and it worked) but i'm wondering what is preventing it from finding/setting up a LAN on my rigs. Messing with my router also didn't help nor disabling most services for my LAN adapter. I even tried to copy the lan settings from the working Vista 32 computer but it didn't help. I tried installing directx 9.0c and enabling directplay on windows 10, adding the grid.exe file to dep exceptions, disabling explorer.exe, installing to a different path and disk, leaving just one adapter enabled, etc. I probably tried everything i could remember, from disconnecting the firewall and antivirus, skype, utorrent, etc to applying a reg text file from another computer installation on Windows Vista 32. Always returns that annoying SESSION ERROR: Unable to connect to session, no matter what I do (and i tried LOTS of different things these last two days). The game runs on all kinds of configurations, except that LAN multiplayer part, which was exactly what i needed from it (i'm trying to set up a LAN with my son). Game works fine, everything else works perfectly, the sound, the higher resolutions, compatibility modes etc. I haven't been able to launch the LAN multiplayer mode of Grid on both my Windows 10 圆4 computers (a recent desktop and a laptop both with build PRO 1803). I know this game is no longer being sold by GOG but i'm having a weird technical problem and maybe someone here can help me out. ![]()
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