[BruceD]

Too bad. It means that on XP i had a nice bug?

[MrMateczko]

What bug?

[renatourbano123]

??????

The GTA Vice City works perfect in windows vista, seven

[radioman]

QUOTE (renatourbano123 @ Tuesday, Apr 10 2012, 07:58)

?????? The GTA Vice City works perfect in windows vista, seven

Of coarse it's going to work a lot better on Vista(and Windows 7 for that matter) now since there are far better Video cards and processors with more up to date drivers now a days..This topic was from back in 2007, when Windows Vista first came out and people just starting getting it...

This IS still a handy topic, as there are people who are unable to run the game under Vista/still have problems with the game on Vista(most because of low system specs), but still there are people with higher-end systems that have problems..

[gTaVcThUg]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Does not run properly on my VISTA HOME PREMIUM...While Loading, it says UNHANDLED EXCEPTION ...And it closes the game!! Help Me QUICKLY!!!

[JamesHardy89]

I have having trouble playing Vice City on Vista I have made a video please read the description any help would be great Thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPgFgtU1so&feature=plcp

[Spuds725]

Have you tried reducing your "draw distance"-- has it always done this??

Delete your gtavc.set file and reload your game-- (without changing any of your video settings initially)-- it will start up in 640x480 resolution--- see if the problem persists--- if not... start tweaking your video setttings one at a time... you will have to quit and reload game any time you want to change any of your settings....

You really should post ALL of your PC specs...

[radioman]

QUOTE (JamesHardy89 @ Wednesday, Jul 11 2012, 04:21)

I have having trouble playing Vice City on Vista I have made a video please read the description any help would be great Thanks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPgFgtU1so&feature=plcp

The problem is your Video card-SIS cards are NOT good for gaming-especially on Vista..They work OK on Windows XP, but not on Vista, since Vista is more of a resource hog than XP...Even I had A LOT of crashes with VC and III on my old PC which too had an SIS video card(and that was Windows XP)...Since you are on a laptop(as seen in your video), there really is nothing you can do besides running the game at bare minimum specs, since laptop video cards cannot be upgraded, since they are soldered in(according to a local PC Repair shop in the Gulfcoast area)...

Plus, the Clock speed on that processor is a little low for Windows Vista-2.0GHZ or higher is best for Vista and 7 OS's...(again, taken from your specs from the Video)...

You should either downgrade to Windows XP(which can't be done, as XP is not sold anymore-according to Microsoft.com, it was stopped being sold back in either October of 2010)-here is proof of that-From Microsoft.com:

QUOTE

Even though we ended the sale of Windows XP on October 22, 2010, we still plan to provide support for individual users and businesses until April 2014.

So, you will have to get a better PC if you want to play games decently on PC, i'm afraid...

On the PC I have now(which is a laptop), I can run III and VC and SA at Full HD with max. settings and the game plays perfect and this is on a Intel I5 @2.53GHZ w/up to 2.93GHZ w/Turbo Boost, 6GB DDR3 Ram, an ATI Radeon HD5470 w/1GB vram and an Intel HD video card with up to 3216mb vram and Windows 7 Home Premium..I can even run IV and EFLC at medium-High settings at 30+ fps with no problems...However, I can run the game great on a laptop with an Intel Centrino(Core2Duo) @2.0GHZ, 2GB DDR2 ram, and an Intel GMA video card w/128MB vram and XP Pro SP3 at the same settings for III, VC, and SA-maxed out-except no AA for SA and a little lower resolution...

Also, as Spuds said above me, Lower your Draw Distance to minimum and set the resolution to the lowest(you have to right click the VC.exe to get to the properties to do this more than likely?)-making sure to delete the .set file before starting game(as Spuds said above)...The Draw distance and Resolution hurt performance a lot on slower PC's-I found that out from experience...

Basically, what I am trying to say from the above examples, is that it seems from experience(as I have used ALL 3 OS's-XP, Vista, and 7), is that it seems like Intel Video cards are a lot better at gaming than the VIA/SIS cards are/were...?

Also, Why is the SA version of this topic locked? Just curious?

This post has been edited by radioman on Saturday, Jul 14 2012, 02:48