Comments on: Gearhead Garage

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:24:47 +0000

In reply to Michael Domingue. I think, you run it on Windows 11. But you must activation action to the compatibility.

By: Micarone

Micarone — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 19:34:49 +0000

In reply to pkkilleru. This solution worked perfectly for me! Thank you!

By: Michael Domingue

Michael Domingue — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:17:42 +0000

In reply to Michael Domingue.

well… now it runs nicely, but crash after a couple minutes…

By: Michael Domingue

Michael Domingue — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:33:30 +0000

anyone still playing this? i would LOVE to play it but it wont work… i got it to install, but when i launch it with direct3D it popup a “Direct3D support was not detected” error and with the software/directX 7 it boots in 4 tiny copy on top of the screen (all funtionnal) with the colors absolutely messed up and i cant see anything…

By: Iskren Hadzhinedev

Iskren Hadzhinedev — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:13:02 +0000

In reply to sidemanc.

Follow these steps, I managed to install with those:
1. Run the setup (nothing happens)
2. Open Task Manager and go to the “details” tab
3. Right-click setup.exe
4. Select “Analyze wait chain”

You should receive a list of processes. For some reason the installer was waiting on “Viber” on my PC and I had to quit viber in order to get it running. Once I quit that the installer immediately popped up on screen.

By: David PETOZZI

David PETOZZI — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:32:20 +0000

In reply to James Lee Barnes.

Hi, I had it too, so I installed the update stand alone
https://www.gearheadgarage.com/updates/GHGMultiUpdate.exe
Then launched on comptability Win98 and As Admin.
Works perfectly then.

By: sidemanc

sidemanc — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:11:48 +0000

In reply to pkkilleru. is there a trick to getting it to install on windows 10 from iso? I have the iso and mount it but when running setup nothing happens.

By: pkkilleru

pkkilleru — Wed, 06 May 2020 19:07:49 +0000

In reply to James Lee Barnes.

I have found a way to get Gearhead Garage to work on Windows 10:
1. Install normally from the ISO and apply all patches from gearheadgarage(com)
2. Get the portable version of Nelson Piquet’s Grand Prix (game) from myabandonware(com)
3. Replace the file called d3d.vd from the Data folder of Gearhead Garage with the same file from Nelson Piquet’s Grand Prix
4. Set compatibility mode for ghg.exe to Windows XP (SP2) and tick the box for “Run as administrator”
GHG should not crash anymore and you can enjoy it

By: James Lee Barnes

James Lee Barnes — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:58:12 +0000

In reply to Tyler Gerrard. I get the "spawn" error too

By: Tyler Gerrard

Tyler Gerrard — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 18:22:43 +0000

getting an error when trying to run it