Thank you. I do not have any donation going on, this is pure love for the game, free and for anyone that wants to give it a try. Enjoy and have a nice time!
Mr. Xator I just wanna say thank you for truly keeping this game alive and your dedication to helping others. Cheers my friend and if you happen to have a discord/donation page I will gladly contribute. For others who see this, simply patching the exe file fixed all the issues I encountered with the GOG version of the game on a Lenovo Legion GO. Portable Grid never felt so good.
Sorry It was the beta UTF-8 support it was listed here.
Every issues I've seen lead here.
Thank you for the help.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Race_Driver:_Grid
Weird, but I can give you some pointers:
Since you have a laptop, be sure to be launching the game with the NVidia card. You can do that adding the EXE file to the nvidia control panel, NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Preferred graphics processor setting, and select your 3050Ti from there.
Also, GOG release comes without OpenAL for the sound. Be sure to install it from here: https://openal.org/downloads/
Finally, if all of the above fails, please check if the game is launching correctly: go to %userprofile%\Documents\Codemasters\GRID\hardwaresettings and share both files here, for me to check the values.
This version of the widescreen fix is outdated (dated 2016). There was a newer version made in 2019 that can still be downloaded by opening up his site in Wayback machine then copying the download link and removing the web archive part from the link (original MEGA download link so it still works)
dunno if pcgw allows links but here: https://mega (dot) nz/ #!q8hWVKyI!eyDyd92xUXX-y2z5oCmC4egTHlGJth0h47mnYScg1yY