[Gubru]

QUOTE (ashdexx @ Jun 19 2005, 21:40)

This is only meant for bugs that affect gameplay, they crash your game, a cutscene doesn't end and you have to ctrl-alt-del to close it, features that were in the ps2 version but not the pc (not the 2 player, thats nots a bug), stuff like that. i'll get the ball rolling. These are features i would specifically like patched, if there is to be an official patch! -The Cars Don't Get dirty, they're ALWAYS dirty. they dont get clean! On the PS2, the cars actually got dirty, and you were able to clean them by going to a pay and spray, on the pc that doesn't happen. example (ps2): -the Semis, and other dual rear-wheel vehicles, no longer have dual real wheels: QUOTE (123abc) PC: PS2: i know, those dont really affect gameplay, but for f*cks sake, what the hell R*? you had them in the ps2, and they were nice touches! what the f*ck?! -The game peridocally crashes for pretty much no reason. unable to reproduce at will -Sound skips sometimes, or lowers itself in volume, to being unhearable -For the life of me, i cannot get radio commercials to play between my user tracks. if its in the game, it doesnt work for me. if you removed it, wtf? i know theres lots more people...

Actually, my problem is the opposite with the PC version. Everything looks dirty, and cannot be cleaned. (Even if I go to a Pay'n'Spray).

[Gubru]

Another bug is that I sometimes get transparent character models during cutscenes.

Another annoying bug is my sound volume slowly goes down sometimes when a character talks to me.

[kator]

I think I've got one. No matter where I go, I can't pick up fares for the taxi missions. Tried all three cities, much of the countryside, and nothing. Not one fare. Has anyone else had this happen?

[ArtVandelay]

Always-dirty cars sucks, I hate that...

And I have these other bugs:

-Missing sounds when it's raining (SB Live)
-"Invisible" pedestrians and sometimes the roads are black in the horizon when you go fast (ATI R8500 - Catalyst 5.6)





This post has been edited by ArtVandelay on Tuesday, Jun 21 2005, 18:36

[Natedogg.]

Sadly, the only main problem I have is the game crashing issue. I currently run Pizzadox and run the SA.exe with Xfire in the background, it automatically crashes the game.

My game randomly minimizes and says that there was a graphics error occuring within ATI catalyst control center, which I "X" out and then I can recontinue the game, but it happens every 10 minutes or so, and can be quite annoying.

Another infamous crash is the game exits and I get a window stating that the SA.EXE has encountered an error and must close...blah blah bullsh*t. Then it asks if I" want to send an error report" or "don't send."

I really can't play the f*cking game until R* releases a pretty thing called a patch, so I can finally not hesitate and await another crashing error.

[nlitement]

QUOTE (FAAmecanic @ Jun 20 2005, 16:04)

BUGS BUGS BUGS This is the buggiest game I have loaded on my PC in a LOOOONG TIME 1) Constant crashing/lockups.  I have constant HARD lockups where I cant even Ctrl-Alt-Del...I have to hit my reset button.  I have noticed (but not confirmed yet) that all the lockups happened right after I got about 50% muscle on CJ right after completing the mission that unlocks the gym.  With my "Buff" CJ the game mostly locks up everywhere (buidlings, dirving, racetrack).  sometimes it happens in 5 min...sometimes I can play for an hour or two. I have an old saved game that I went back to (before the gym was unlocked) and played it last night for about 1 1/2 hours and NO LOCKUPS!  I will try playing through several more missions with this old save game...and if it dont lock up...then at least we have found the time frame in the game or cause for the lockups.  why CJ being buff locks games up ....I dont know.  I will post results here. 2)  The ever changing view while driving and on foot.  I liked the old GTA VC way of the camera being locked behind you.  Its next to impossible to drive high speed with the camera the way it is.  I was going to stop playing the game until someone suggested that turning on Mouse Steering will somewhat make the camera stay stable.

2.

For God damn's sake! In VC the camera is like a f*cking bitch. In SA I can alter the camera so I can see if some car comes over in a turn, in VC I had no chance to know a car would come up to the road and bang I crash into it. And if I won't touch the mouse the camera will stick nice.

ontopic: Audio popping and the sound volume changing when a "character" talks. And lowering down to 3.0.6.6 as some smartguy indicated, will only make the sound worse which in vs. popping, popping wins.

Hey dude the popping peds is fixed: just get Cat 4.9 it worked for many. Make sure you get the RIGHT one.

This post has been edited by nlitement on Tuesday, Jun 21 2005, 18:39

[ArtVandelay]

QUOTE (nlitement @ Jun 21 2005, 18:36)

Hey dude the popping peds is fixed: just get Cat 4.9 it worked for many. Make sure you get the RIGHT one.

Yes, I know, but with Cat 4.9 I get an awful and corrupted "heat effect", and with 5.6 the popping peds (same thing with 4.12, I tried different versions), at least the popping peds get fixed with detail level at low, but low detail sucks...

[Samutz]

A few problems I've had.

Turf wars:
After you start a war, sometimes the "waves" spawn too far out of the territory. If I try to go after them, the game will tell me not to go too far out of the territory, and thus I can't take over because I can't get close enough to the wave to kill them. This mostly happens to me wihle I'm trying to take over Vagos turf, but also happened once or twice while fighting Ballas.

Stowaway (mission):
The plane takes off too fast most of the time. On my PC it's impossible to get on without cheating, but on my friend's PC it moves much slower.

Mountain Cloud Boys (mission):
At the very begining, you drive Woozie around the back of the block. Everytime I park the car facing north, CJ and Woozie will get out of the car normally, but CJ will be frozen (I can't make him budge) while Woozie goes on about loose cobblestone and asking me to follow him. But if I park the car facing south, it works fine.

[crais1984]

apparently in reviews of the game ive read online and in magazines they all stated that even on their highest end PC's, and im sure that reviewers will have the dogs bollocks in PC machinery, they all encountered the audio cutting out when it rained etc and speech cutting out in cut scenes so dont give me no bollocks that it is just cos the PC cant handle the sound. Its pretty simple f*ckin sounds and ud have 2 have a v v v v v v sh*t pc not 2 be able 2 hear them so its an actual bug

[Googlesta]

wole04:
The sound cutting out happens to a lot of people even with good sound cards.
I'm thinking it might have something to do with the # of sound channels since it cuts out with rain. Like the game is setting something to 8 sound channels when most systems can handle 32 sound channels. Unfortunately R* didn't leave us a setting in audio setup for sound channels.

And crashes happen to a lot of people with systems way better than needed for this game, like me. I have a few crashes now and then. Part of it is that there's some memory leaks in the game. If you play for an extended period and look at the in game map a lot eventually it will probably crash.

And part of it is that R* just didn't do enough testing on various computer configurations.

Check out my FAQ, theres a lot of things (including most of what you are suggesting) there that have helped some people out.

[gohan2091]

Take a look at this screenshot...



- The word "Ambulance" is cut off on every single Ambulance Ive seen.. whats up with that?

- In Vice City I had an MP3 Boost setting which was very handy as some of my Mp3's were louder than others. Where is this option on San Andreas?

- Camera is pretty bad when you're driving, its too lazy, it takes a few seconds for the camera to swing round my car when I turn, sure I can use the mouse to look but I want it like it was on Vice City.

I pretty much agree with the rest of you...

- In gang wars, the gang members are useless, they always get in your way, if you run too far ahead, they get stuck or just stand there, they never shoot any enemy gang members, I feel like I'm always on my own.

- If I have more than 3 members in a gang, they cant all travel with me because 90% of vehicles only hold the maximum of 4 people. I tried vans, limos and they only hold 4 people. My gang members should hijack a vehicle and follow me if they cant fit in my vehicle.

- Vehicles are always dirty, they should be like they are on PS2...clean then become dirty as you drive and then can be cleaned again.

- Police are so dumb.... gangs shoot people and vehicles right next to a police man and he doesnt do anything, but if I shoot, he comes straight for me. I see police chase some people but most of the time they dont do anything.

[FAAmecanic]

QUOTE (nlitement @ Jun 21 2005, 18:36)

QUOTE (FAAmecanic @ Jun 20 2005, 16:04) BUGS BUGS BUGS This is the buggiest game I have loaded on my PC in a LOOOONG TIME 1) Constant crashing/lockups.  I have constant HARD lockups where I cant even Ctrl-Alt-Del...I have to hit my reset button.  I have noticed (but not confirmed yet) that all the lockups happened right after I got about 50% muscle on CJ right after completing the mission that unlocks the gym.  With my "Buff" CJ the game mostly locks up everywhere (buidlings, dirving, racetrack).  sometimes it happens in 5 min...sometimes I can play for an hour or two. I have an old saved game that I went back to (before the gym was unlocked) and played it last night for about 1 1/2 hours and NO LOCKUPS!  I will try playing through several more missions with this old save game...and if it dont lock up...then at least we have found the time frame in the game or cause for the lockups.  why CJ being buff locks games up ....I dont know.  I will post results here. 2)  The ever changing view while driving and on foot.  I liked the old GTA VC way of the camera being locked behind you.  Its next to impossible to drive high speed with the camera the way it is.  I was going to stop playing the game until someone suggested that turning on Mouse Steering will somewhat make the camera stay stable. 2. For God damn's sake! In VC the camera is like a f*cking bitch. In SA I can alter the camera so I can see if some car comes over in a turn, in VC I had no chance to know a car would come up to the road and bang I crash into it. And if I won't touch the mouse the camera will stick nice. ontopic: Audio popping and the sound volume changing when a "character" talks. And lowering down to 3.0.6.6 as some smartguy indicated, will only make the sound worse which in vs. popping, popping wins. Hey dude the popping peds is fixed: just get Cat 4.9 it worked for many. Make sure you get the RIGHT one.

You have such a descriptive way of putting it. Could you explain to me how the camera in VC was a F*king B!tch? Not sure what you mean here.

All I know is that unless I enable Mouse Driving, when I take High speed corners using the handbrake to slide around them, the damn camera comes to the side of my car about 2 ft from the door. So I then have to waste the precious 1-2 seconds to RE-position the camera behind my car and by then I have either hit another car, or my car is not facing where it needs to be and I have to slow down...... Ya...real helpful when you have someone chasing you. Im not the only one that doesnt like the new carmera views, just read some other fourms or search this one.

I agree I like being able to look to the sides of my car.... but again I should be the one that moves the camera...not the game. That would be like playing a shooter like UT and your guy running forward shooting someone, then all of a sudden the camera decides you should be looking behind you. BAM...your dead.

[jonrox]

QUOTE (Delfi @ Jun 19 2005, 22:17)

you cannot bind numpad 5 to any key no matter what numlock state when driving a boat on water on some places i am getting wanted 5-stars at random time, what is going on?

Getting the 5 stars when in a boat is not random - it's to stop you going to areas you're not allowed in yet. It's a fantastic idea and much better than a 'glass wall' or something.

[Googlesta]

QUOTE (jonrox @ Jun 22 2005, 06:33)

QUOTE (Delfi @ Jun 19 2005, 22:17) you cannot bind numpad 5 to any key no matter what numlock state when driving a boat on water on some places i am getting wanted 5-stars at random time, what is going on? Getting the 5 stars when in a boat is not random - it's to stop you going to areas you're not allowed in yet. It's a fantastic idea and much better than a 'glass wall' or something.

Yeah, more specifically when you get too close to that Naval base, or that other city before you are allowed too.

[Googlesta]

QUOTE (jonrox @ Jun 22 2005, 06:33)

QUOTE (Delfi @ Jun 19 2005, 22:17) you cannot bind numpad 5 to any key no matter what numlock state when driving a boat on water on some places i am getting wanted 5-stars at random time, what is going on? Getting the 5 stars when in a boat is not random - it's to stop you going to areas you're not allowed in yet. It's a fantastic idea and much better than a 'glass wall' or something.

Yeah, more specifically when you get too close to that Naval base, or that other city before you are allowed too.

[Top Dawg]

why are you people complaining so much, ive played the PC version and yes it is buggy
but it is still playable. and R* probaly had to take out some features because the game
is so BIG have you seen the size of it. and the required specs are kinda low considering
how big the world maps are so everyone just chill because i think sooner or later R*
is gonna release a patch.

[jonathangr]

what i've seen yet:
- some rare crashes
- missing sound when it's raining
- camera goes f*cked up when hold in a different position than normal (with right stick) and going fast in cars
- always dirty cars
- the word Ambulance behind ambulances
- black roads
- cannot map the f*cking menu to a gamepad button (annoying)
- cannot map LEFT RIGHT UP DOWN for gamepads with a POV, have to use another one
- detail : misplaced camera when looking left in Jetmax with 1st person (not really...) view camera

hopin' for a patch very soon

[FAAmecanic]

QUOTE (Top Dawg @ Jun 22 2005, 21:52)

why are you people complaining so much, ive played the PC version and yes it is buggy but it is still playable. and R* probaly had to take out some features because the game is so BIG have you seen the size of it. and the required specs are kinda low considering how big the world maps are so everyone just chill because i think sooner or later R* is gonna release a patch.

Glad its playable for you..... I have had to put the game on a shelf because it is unplayable for me due it constantly locking my machine. Yes I have latest drivers, mobo bios, fresh load of XP (built the PC about a month ago). No Im not a PC n00b and have built at least 12- 20 PCs (dating back to the old 486 SX days).... so I know my stuff. I currently play Doom3, HL2, BF Vietnam, Silent Hunter III, MS FS2004 with a ton of addons...and no problems. SO its not my PC.

I will wait for patch...and if it still dont work, its EBAY TIME.

[Spyre]

I found a graphical bug that only occurs on the PC, theres a swimming pool (to the south) near one of the houses you can buy in the start city. The water in the pool vanishes depending on the camera position. Heres a few screenshots and a pic of the map where the pool is.

This bug doesnt occur on the Xbox and isnt graphics card specific

http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/spyre/gtasapool1.JPG

http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/spyre/gtasapool2.JPG

http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/spyre/gtasamap2.JPG

QUOTE

Turf wars: After you start a war, sometimes the "waves" spawn too far out of the territory. If I try to go after them, the game will tell me not to go too far out of the territory, and thus I can't take over because I can't get close enough to the wave to kill them. This mostly happens to me wihle I'm trying to take over Vagos turf, but also happened once or twice while fighting Ballas.

Yeah I've noticed that too

This post has been edited by Spyre on Thursday, Jun 23 2005, 03:41

[BuzuBuzu]

Hello,

Let me add my buggy two cents:

-my game locks up randomly every so often ... this isn't catastrophic though ... the sound starts looping, the screen goes black, then after about 5 seconds the sound returns to normal (ie it sounds like i'm doing whatever i was doing in game before the lock up) but the screen is still black. I then have to alt-tab out of the game and can alt-tab back in with everything returning to normal. I have no idea what causes this, seems quite random (not caused by any particular mission or anything like that, not particular vehicles either ... though i don't remember it happening to me while on foot)

-sometimes after loading a game I loose some of my ammo (ie when i saved i had over a thousand rounds of ak ammo, but when i load it is down to a hundred). Reloading the game again gives me my original ammo count back

-the sound bug (people already mentioned this i think), with sound cutting out after some period of play (doesn't happen to me, but my bro has this problem ... he has an older sound card: Sound Blaster Live)

-in the burglary sub-mission, the cost field in the upper right corner of the screen is always 0 when stealing stuff. I'm not sure how it is supposed to work, but it would make sense for the game to show a "running theft total" instead of that. (ie after putting a microwave in my boxville the cost should increment to the value of that oven).

Thats it for my bugs ... I do want to say something else though:

THIS GAME IS FUN-f*ckING-TASTIC ... sure its buggy, and I'm DEFINITELY expecting a patch, but its not the core of this game that's flawed, just some (major/minor) implementation parts

oh, almost forgot, my pc hardware specs:

cpu: Athlon XP 2200
ram: 768 Mb
video: ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 Mb (catalyst 5.6)
sound: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (latest drivers)

Cheers