[dertyjerzian]

Awesome FAQ Goog.

Very nice work.

[EntropicLqd]

QUOTE (Googlesta @ Jun 13 2005, 00:17)

"Fender Ketchup" mission prob One guy had a problem with this mission where during the cutscene, the guys car kept getting stuck as he pulled out. Skipping the cutscene fixed it.

This happened to me.

Normally cut-scenes can be skipped using the "primary fire" or "enter/exit vehicle" keys. In this case I had to use the key I had bound to "sprint". That was the only one that would skip the cut-scene. And even then I had to wait a few seconds before the skip would work.

[Centercore]

like the ultimate post

[Googlesta]

QUOTE (MethyL @ Jun 18 2005, 14:48)

QUOTE (Googlesta @ Jun 18 2005, 21:11) QUOTE (MethyL @ Jun 18 2005, 06:27) I got a problem with people in the game are yellow collored.. how to fix this ?? I would check drivers. What graphics card do you have? x800 XT pci-xpresse and catalyst 5.6 driver.. ? but still the same prob..and have tried reinstalling

Maybe try cat 4.9
Some people had issues with the latest cats and GTA SA.

QUOTE (Frosthunter-K)

man, im realy f*cked up with a problem: when i pu the dvd on to instal, it opens and closes a ms-dos window and nothing more.... i tryed to go to the directory and did everithing i could.... but nothin.... just a open/close dos aplication

Try running the setup.exe file instead. The install.exe is just a launcher, not needed to run it.

[dertyjerzian]

Googlsta ~

I don't have a game pad, but I've noticed that this has become the current trend heading for the newer topics now that a lot of things have been resolved. I also think that any problems to do with the joypad players' buttons acting screwy after working fine may stem from one of the "fixes" found here. Namely, all the gta_sa.set files we've all rounded up. If you add a joypad section to your FAQ once there is some material, remember to include that this could be caused by their button configurations being fully remapped, as many of the settings files have had custom key configurations. C ya round the boards. I am impressed by that post.

[marshalgod]

In the post (Another guy confirmed for a crash on startup (it went black like it was loading then crashed to desktop) that windowsblinds program was causing it. He disabled that and the game worked fine.)

what is windowsblinds program ??

Besides, this is the screen when I finish loading

then I will be kicked back to the desktop

what can I do?

I updated my drivers, uninstalled K-Lite codec pack, I can't find the GTA_SA.SET file.

[Googlesta]

QUOTE (marshalgod @ Jun 19 2005, 00:15)

In the post (Another guy confirmed for a crash on startup (it went black like it was loading then crashed to desktop) that windowsblinds program was causing it. He disabled that and the game worked fine.) what is windowsblinds program ?? I updated my drivers, uninstalled K-Lite codec pack, I can't find the GTA_SA.SET file.

Try using search in windows to find the set file. Its in your my docs folder.

As for windows blinds, thats a popular question so I'll update my FAQ with what it is and how to find it.

Since you dont know, odds are that you dont have it installed. Try some of the other solutions, like the compat modes, etc.

[Overture]

Dude, we got pinned

[Centercore]

Hydravision was my prob thx man also maybe u could advise people to use event viewer to find out if anything else is having errors of whatever thanks again

[frustrated12]

ive been trying to get my gta to work like 2 weeks now. posted my problem on here a couple days ago, got no replies. but im nopt surprised. look at all these problems. this is rediculous. like 1 in 10 ppl get this game working. some of the solutions on here are insane!
a patch? i dont think a patch will take care of anything. these dudes plainly f*cked up. gg gn

[Crozmo]

I cant belive deleting the set file was everything needed

Before it never started up, just showed a cd sign then didn nothing, so i opened my puter and blew out dust, checked cables and sh*t

[-Garrett-]

I also have a GEForce 2 (an MX 200, to be precise), with the following settings:

* 1024x768x16
* Frame Limiter off
* low model detail
* draw distance at 3/4/5 notches (I forget which exactly)
* no AA

The game loads in about 20 seconds and runs smooth as butter. No, I kid you not, I'm just as surprised!

OK, so it loses ~10 FPS when causing mutli-car explosions etc., but otherwise these low settings let me run it just as well as III/VC with everything at max, and it still manages to look cooler than they ever did!

Surprisingly the game runs very smoothly with the frame limiter off (it was so choppy as to be unplayable with it on), and I get I'd say I get 45-50 FPS. I haven't actually tested the exact number, but it isn't noticeably choppy. And people in the cutscenes don't have jerking movements like when I run III.

Despite R*'s warnings about 16-bit having all these graphical flaws I haven't seen any yet. Except the lines where car body panels etc. meet are very occasionally visible as white lines, but that's minor considering my dinocard is able to render the amazing new shadows and reflections--all in real-time!

I had a devil of a time getting the Advanced Settings panel to work. I finally got it to work just by chance.

The Omega Forceware I was using crashed at Advanced Settings so I uninstalled it and installed the latest official beta (still crashed there) so uninstalled and tried without any drivers (still crashed there) and then gave up and reinstalled Omega to go back to where I was.

But THAT time it worked, because Windows screwed something up. It started up at 640x480 and whined about finding new hardware as if the drivers were missing. So I decided to see if the game would function under this odd circumstance, and ran it immediately. Lo and behold the settings panel opened fine, so I tested things and set everything up nicely.

However when I quit to shut down Messenger etc. to get the best performance for further tweaking it crashed at the panel, so Windows obviously resolved its drivers during those few minutes while it finished its startup.

I assume this can be replicated by uninstalling the card via the Device Manager and letting it think it's a new device, but I have yet to try this and I'm not even sure if it would detect it again. I certainly don't want a blank unusable monitor...

OK, I've rambled... but the main point is that it seems like anyone with an incompatible card could unattach/uninstall the card and then start up and quickly run the game before Windows has time to react.

Well, even if it doesn't work for you it worked for ME, suckers!!!

I hope R* fixes this soon though, I've got some more tinkering to do...

Actually I have another problem. When doing the OG Loc mission CJ sort of half-rings the bell (his hand doesn't appear to touch the wall and there is no bell sound) and he and OG seem to stand there forever unless skipped. However this may be caused by the NoCD crack; I can't run the game without it, so I can't find out if that's the reason. Anyone else have this? It doesn't matter as I can skip it, but it'd be nice to find out why I'm trying to kill the guy... ...or are they meant to stand there for a bit and I'm just too impatient?

[HottKarl313]

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QUOTE

(Googlesta @ Jun 13 2005, 00:17) "Fender Ketchup" mission prob One guy had a problem with this mission where during the cutscene, the guys car kept getting stuck as he pulled out. Skipping the cutscene fixed it.

QUOTE

Entrop This happened to me. Normally cut-scenes can be skipped using the "primary fire" or "enter/exit vehicle" keys. In this case I had to use the key I had bound to "sprint". That was the only one that would skip the cut-scene. And even then I had to wait a few seconds before the skip would work.

I tried hitting the key bound to sprint and it worked thank you.

This post has been edited by HottKarl313 on Tuesday, Jun 21 2005, 18:38

[Googlesta]

-Garrett-:
You coulda saved a lot of time just by grabbing a replacement gta_sa.set file You can still try that and see if it helps you get back into that menu. I'd suggest backing up your current file just in case.

OG Loc, no its not the no-cd. I've seen someone play that mission while using the no-cd.
Anyway, there's a script faq at www.gamefaqs.com so you can see everything everyone says in every cutscene so you can see if you miss anything by skipping that one.

[reiko123]

Hi there, if someone could please help me with this i would appreciate it.

I Have a
athlon xp 2800
768mb ram (ddr400)
128mb Radeon 9600 XT

GTA runs smoothly for about 10 minutes then turns to sh*t (game starts lagging and goes in slow mo), I have to reset the computer for it to go better and again that will only be for a little while, till it turs to crap again.

Have tried all above methods and have fully uptodate drivers

Is really annoying the hell out of me, even rebuilt my harddrive hoping it might do something (didnt do anything)

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

thank you

[reiko123]

I even turned the graphincs all the way down to zip

eg No AA
800x600 16bit
low detail
tried frame rate on and off too No avail

[Strangelove]

QUOTE

Another guy confirmed that his crash on startup (it went black like it was loading then crashed to desktop) was caused by the WindowsBlinds program. He disabled that and the game worked fine for him. Since this is a popular question, WindowsBlinds is a program that "skins" windows, makes new graphics for buttons, etc. Screenshots of what the program does to your windows here: http://www.stardock.com/products/windowbli...screenshots.asp If you dont know what this is, you probably dont have it installed. If it was installed it would be in your ADD/REMOVE programs list.

Actually, it is possible to have this installed and not know about it. Alienware is shipping new systems with the Alienware GUIse, which is built on WindowsBlinds. I was having the same trouble, and uninstalling the Alienware GUIse fixed it completely. Hope this helps some of my fellow Alienware customers.

[Googlesta]

QUOTE (Strangelove @ Jun 24 2005, 09:35)

Actually, it is possible to have this installed and not know about it. Alienware is shipping new systems with the Alienware GUIse, which is built on WindowsBlinds. I was having the same trouble, and uninstalling the Alienware GUIse fixed it completely. Hope this helps some of my fellow Alienware customers.

Really? Good tip! Thanks I'll add that to my FAQ.

[monkfeeesh]

I don't know if this has been covered really, I looked at the invisible/ghost people part of the guide but my peds are visible, just theres no textures, they're always the colour of the sky. Like this:


I have tried deleting the .set file but no change and i don't really want to revert to cats 4.9 because I play other games and don't want to be messing around with drivers just for one game, I shouldn't have to. I have a Connect3D 9800Pro and I'm running Catalyst 5.6 drivers.

One thing I have noticed while playing is that when I'm in Whetstone and the fog comes over, i can actually see people just fine (and actually saw what CJ looked like for the first time)

[drownage]

WOW 16bit makes the game look like total sh*t