Error by creating a championship of 1989

cecelo wrote:Hi, F1CDriver I have this mini tutorial in Portuguese BR. I put it in Google Translate for you, I don't know if it helps. I've never tried this method but... maybe it will help.


hello Cecelo,

sorry, I should notice, that  I learned how the championship  with more than 22 cars works,  I use it all the time.
I'm woundering, the single race with 33 cars is working, and if I  create a championship, I see all drivers and teams in the tables and then the track is loading, when 99% of the track loaded, the game comes to the error.















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How to play with more than 22 drivers in the championship
IN CHAMPIONSHIP MODE:

1. Start a new championship. Select options and click the next button.

2. When you reach the screen that displays the drivers in the championship,
look for them carefully and note which riders are
missing in your championship. You need to know exactly where the
files for these pilots.

3. Exit the game NOW. Don't go any further. If the track starts to load, you've gone too far.
away and will have to start all over again.

4. Once you have completely exited the game, open the folder with your name
player in the save folder. Edit the YOURNAME.plr file:

CURNT Opponents="21"
PRACT Opponents="21"
QUICK Opponents="21"
GPRIX Opponents="21"
CHAMP Opponents="21"
MULTI Opponents="21"
RPLAY Opponents="21"

And change it to:

CURNT Opponents="30"
PRACT Opponents="30"
QUICK Opponents="30"
GPRIX Opponents="30"
CHAMP Opponents="30"
MULTI Opponents="30"
RPLAY Opponents="30"

Save and close this file.

5. Then open the bch file for the season that you created with notepad.
Search for "GAMEOPT_opponents=21" and change that number to the same number above,
in this case, 30. But it could be another number.

6. Search for your player info. You will see two lines
"OriginalGridPosition=21 CurrentGridPosition=21"
change both to the number used previously.

7. Search down until you see:

OPPONENT20]
Name="Zsolt Baumgartner@@@@"
VehFile="SEASONDATA\VEHICLES\2004\MINARDI PS04\2004_MINARDI21.VEH"
RCDFile=""
FinishPosition00=22
FinishPoints00=0
FinishPosition01=8
FinishPoints01=1
FinishPosition02=14
FinishPoints02=0
SeasonPoints=1
PointsPosition=12
PolesTaken=0
OriginalGridPosition=20
CurrentGridPosition
ControlType=1
Active=1

The driver name and vehicle file may be different. Copy all this and paste it below.
Change [OPPONENT20] to 21, change Name= to one of the drivers that is missing from your season.
Change the Vehfile= to find the vehicle file for this pilot.
Change the line OriginalGridPosition=20 to 21 and change the line just below it to 21.
Repeat this step for each driver you add. Save and close the bch file.

8. Restart your game in championship mode. DO NOT START A NEW SEASON.
JUST OPEN THE SEASON THAT HAS ALREADY STARTED. Look for the driver list next
screen and you should see the drivers you added at the bottom.
If they are there, go ahead and start your season.

PS: you can add as many riders as you want (no limit) by this method.

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If you want the tutorial in Portuguese I will post it again.

schumacher180 wrote:With that many cars and different drivers in multiple cars as occured in 1989, I would almost recommend to just use the 'RACE' modus rather than 'CHAMPIONSHIP' and simply put all the results in an Excel after each race including DNF's and finishes outside of the points. But in all my years of playing/modding F1 Challenge '99-'02, I had never seen this error before, honestly.

MFA wrote:Where can you download this mod ?
It's a Mod from the years 1984-1997 ?

Sometimes to fix a bug we have to play it on our computer. Especially when it is an error that has never been seen before or is difficult to understand.