GTA San Andreas not working, patched, unpatched, clean

[parshimers]

GTA san andreas doesn't seem to be working. v1.00, on win7 ultimate x86, with latest nvidia driver release as of now. the game installs fine, but once it gets past the intital video intro, the game will crash. tried turning UAC off, compat mode, run as admin, et cetera. quite irritating considering it seems as if it worked with earlier versions of win7.

 

[Uber Philf]

GTA san andreas doesn't seem to be working. v1.00, on win7 ultimate x86, with latest nvidia driver release as of now. the game installs fine, but once it gets past the intital video intro, the game will crash. tried turning UAC off, compat mode, run as admin, et cetera. quite irritating considering it seems as if it worked with earlier versions of win7.

Have you installed it into its default directory?

 

[parshimers]

Have you installed it into its default directory?

yes, if that directory is C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas , which i imagine it is.

 

[Uber Philf]

Yes thats right, have you tried updating it to the 1.01 patch?

 

[parshimers]

Yes thats right, have you tried updating it to the 1.01 patch?

mmm no, hold on giving that a shot. i was under the impression that the 1.00 was the one you wanted to hold onto, 'cause most mods work with it.

 

[Uber Philf]

thats true and one of the more "adult" missions was taken out. LOL

 

[parshimers]

just tried it, no luck. clean install, updated straight to 1.01.

 

[dw96]

GTA san andreas doesn't seem to be working. v1.00, on win7 ultimate x86, with latest nvidia driver release as of now. the game installs fine, but once it gets past the intital video intro, the game will crash. tried turning UAC off, compat mode, run as admin, et cetera. quite irritating considering it seems as if it worked with earlier versions of win7.

GTA:SA runs too fast on my PC, no matter how weird it may seem. Even with the frame limiter on the game just runs waaaaay too fast. And I also have the buggy mouse issue, which some of you may have heard of. Interesting thing is that on my old PC (Windows 7 7100 x86) the game ran just fine, but on my new one (Windows 7 7600 X64) I get all these errors and stuff. The power of my computer might also be a problem because older games can't run perfectly on newer PC's. So if I turn off two of my cores and underclock the GPU, do you think that I have any chances of running the game fine?

 

[parshimers]

GTA:SA runs too fast on my PC, no matter how weird it may seem. Even with the frame limiter on the game just runs waaaaay too fast. And I also have the buggy mouse issue, which some of you may have heard of. Interesting thing is that on my old PC (Windows 7 7100 x86) the game ran just fine, but on my new one (Windows 7 7600 X64) I get all these errors and stuff. The power of my computer might also be a problem because older games can't run perfectly on newer PC's. So if I turn off two of my cores and underclock the GPU, do you think that I have any chances of running the game fine?

that's actually a known issue by rockstar; isn't unique to win7. Rockstar Games Help - Game runs twice the normal speed
may i inquire as to which version of gta: sa you're running, and if you had to fiddle with compatibility settings to get it to work? i'm starting to think it's a driver issue with nvidia.

 

[dw96]

Now for the serious part, have you had any mouse issues? And also I have tried various patches/fixes etc. ,but with no avail.

 

[parshimers]

Now for the serious part, have you had any mouse issues? And also I have tried various patches/fixes etc. ,but with no avail.

well i cant even get it to run past the intro movies & title screen so we'll have to see, but i believe that's a consequence of that dual processor bug as well. have you indeed gotten it to run into the game menus and such, and actually gotten ingame, regardless of how buggy it is?

 

[dw96]

Now for the serious part, have you had any mouse issues? And also I have tried various patches/fixes etc. ,but with no avail.

well i cant even get it to run past the intro movies & title screen so we'll have to see, but i believe that's a consequence of that dual processor bug as well. have you indeed gotten it to run into the game menus and such, and actually gotten ingame, regardless of how buggy it is?

Yes, but it's still fast. Will try your fix though

 

[Uber Philf]

And as for GTA:SA ive had no problems what so ever with it, finished it 3 times, with no errors at all. except when i dont install it to its default install.

 

[parshimers]

And as for GTA:SA ive had no problems what so ever with it, finished it 3 times, with no errors at all. except when i dont install it to its default install.

may i inquire as to what version of SA it is? im trying to isolate what the hell is making it crash so reliably for me. also perhaps what version of the nvidia drivers you're using? and what compatibility settings for the exe, if any.

 

[Uber Philf]

Version 1.01, uhmm, Driver Version 190.62, and no compatibility settings at all, altho im about to update my Graphics Driver to 191.07, ill let you know how it goes after.

 

[johngalt]

Watch out for the 191.07, they have caused some folks some issues....

 

[Uber Philf]

John, you are so right, the new drivers are a death sentence, installed it, played GTA, it crashed on me, rolled back the drivers, and it works like a dream.
Parshimers, try and get yourself the 190.62 Nvidia Drivers, The ones im running now, and your GTA:SA should run perfectly, and not crash into a pile of virtual garbage.

 

[parshimers]

John, you are so right, the new drivers are a death sentence, installed it, played GTA, it crashed on me, rolled back the drivers, and it works like a dream.
Parshimers, try and get yourself the 190.62 Nvidia Drivers, The ones im running now, and your GTA:SA should run perfectly, and not crash into a pile of virtual garbage.

couple things made it work for me:
a) 190.62 drivers, as you said
b) a nocd crack
which makes sense to me, because secuROM is a rootkit afaik, and it may not appreciate some of the kernel-level changes that have occured from xp to 7.

 

[Uber Philf]

Good to hear you've got it going.

 

[johngalt]

OK, I moved these posts into their own thread b/c the game list thread is just that - a game list thread. Any discussion is to be carried on outside of that thread.