Windows 7: GTA San Andreas

Pretty old post but since I ended up here I figured I would add my $.02.
I have an ASUS gaming laptop with Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Installed GTA SA a few min ago and it ran fine but the mouse didn't work. Found another forum with a fix that worked for me.
In the GTA SA.exe properties, compatibility I have the following... Run in XP SP2, Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition and Run As Administrator.



The "Themes" and "Composition" is what fixed the mouse issue for me.

Also; I read that some of you have no sound. When I was installing I chose custom install and saw that "Game Audio" was un-checked by default. Perhaps it never got installed for you.
Try custom install and be sure Game Audio is checked to be installed.

I also saw a video on youtube that touched on the DEP (Data Execution Prevention) feature of Windows 7. The user had to set an exemption for GTA SA.exe.
However I didn't set one, as I only have DEP on for Windows system programs, not all programs.
So far, as of posting this, GTA SA is working, intro movies, audio and mouse. Happy gaming!

This worked for me and I'm so glad you posted this! It's never too late to help someone out! I am very, very, very, very grateful you came back and gave this info.

Signed up just to thank you!

I have a problem too here. Everytime I run gta_sa.exe it won't run. Just made a blackscreen a second and then close itself. Can anyone help me?