[adroit4]

I coudnt find anything on this topic, so starting a new one.

I bought my game last week, it used to work fine. Later when I went to load any of my saved games or start a new game, it would give me application errors. So I reinstalled the game. Now when I double click the .exe file, it will give me an error as "Bad windows image, vorbisfile.dll not found or something like that"...so I replaced the vorbisfile.dll with one on google, now it gives the same error but this time with ogg.dll and I replace that too, now it gives me a message, "the procedure entry point ogg_stream_reset_serialno could not be located in the dynamic link library ogg.dll". I have tried reinstalling my game 5 times with the same sh*t. I don't know what to do!!

Here are my sys specs:

Athlon 2500+ barton
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MOBO
Using Realtek drivers
DX 9.0c
GeForce 4 Ti4200: Forceware drivers 77.72
512 Corsair XMS
60GB IBM Deskstar and 160GB WDD (Game installed on WD)
Using onboard soundcard with nForce2 Mobo.

Please help me!!

[Rage18]

seems nForce+Onboard audio=disaster. I think if you go into the direct x diagnostic utility and lower hardware sound acceleration to basic seems to fix problems with the game. also make sure sound drivers are up to date

[SEEJAY123]

Try reinstalling your soundcard, if that doesn't work reinstall DirectX. Good Luck.

[adroit4]

sound drivers are up-to-datel, tried using both, nvidia and realtek drivers. My sound card is integrated in my mobo, so no question in reinstalling the card. I am also using Win2k SP4 btw. Please someone help!

[Rage18]

try this: start > run > type dxdiag then hit enter. after it does its scan click through the tabs and look in the notes section and see if there are any problems. then go to the sound tab and adjust the 'hardware sound acceleration' tab to basic acceleration.

[adroit4]

it didnt show any errors in the notes section. I also tried it with all the sound acceleration settings, still the same damn error. i tried deleting my user files as well, but still the same god damned error!!!!

[adroit4]

ok re-installed agian, this is the exact message I get...

gta_sa.exe - Bad Image "The application or DLL F:\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\vorbis.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette"

after this, I go to walmart and exchange the cd (as they won't let me return it anymore) and the new disk does the same thing....this is f*cking annoying! please help me!!

also can someone try to upload their vorbis.dll, vorbisfile.dll and ogg.dll somewhere, i can try and dling it.

[Rage18]

here. try it

[adroit4]

ok progress!! first of all, thx a lot rage, those files helped me with that problem! But yet another problem arises! I start up the game, then it shows me the intro and goes to the SA screen, suddenly it crashes to desktop and shows me the error message that windows needs to close this program. I read in other forums, but the solutions didnt help at all. Anyone else having this problem?? please help!!

[Rage18]

I forget if youve said this or not, have you tried disabling onboard audio alltogether from the bios to see if that does anything? Or perhaps its a problem with your ram. You have tried the nForce 6.53 drivers from nvidia?

This post has been edited by Rage18 on Friday, Jul 1 2005, 01:02

[adroit4]

ok tried realtek drivers again, no luck. Tried disabling onboard sound, but then GTA says no audio device found (my onboard is my primary and only sound device btw). Re-installed Nforce audio drivers, giving the same problem again....please help someone!!!!!!

also the ram is fine, as it runs other games smoothly and nicely.

[adroit4]

wow more progress or just back to the same old problem. So I decide to reinstall the game again for the sake of it. Now I get past the rockstar screen and gta screen. But now, when I try to load a game or start a new game, the load bar reaches half way then GTA just freezes. The music is still playing in the background but when I alt+tab out, I see a program error. God damn it, is there a problem on every step?????????

[adroit4]

here is what is going on now.

[Rage18]

what are you downloading from Nvidia? The Audio driver package or the Unified driver. The Unified driver is the chipset drivers for nForce. Try those

[adroit4]

i am installin the unified driver package, the audio driver is already in it. I also tried audio driver seperate, but that dosnt help either.

[schnoosel]

Please Rage could you also give me those vorbisfile and ogg files cuz I also have the same problems and your link to download the files doesnt work...

PLZ HELLLP!

[AEFAz]

QUOTE (adroit4 @ Jun 29 2005, 03:00)

I coudnt find anything on this topic, so starting a new one. I bought my game last week, it used to work fine. Later when I went to load any of my saved games or start a new game, it would give me application errors. So I reinstalled the game. Now when I double click the .exe file, it will give me an error as "Bad windows image, vorbisfile.dll not found or something like that"...so I replaced the vorbisfile.dll with one on google, now it gives the same error but this time with ogg.dll and I replace that too, now it gives me a message, "the procedure entry point ogg_stream_reset_serialno could not be located in the dynamic link library ogg.dll". I have tried reinstalling my game 5 times with the same sh*t. I don't know what to do!! Here are my sys specs: Athlon 2500+ barton Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MOBO Using Realtek drivers DX 9.0c GeForce 4 Ti4200: Forceware drivers 77.72 512 Corsair XMS 60GB IBM Deskstar and 160GB WDD (Game installed on WD) Using onboard soundcard with nForce2 Mobo. Please help me!!

I have the exact same problem The exact error message is "The procedure entry point ogg_stream_reset_serialno could not be located in the dynamic link library ogg.dll"

I should clarify that I had to download my Vorbis.dll AND my ogg.dll in the first place Does anyone have an idea of the problem/solution?

Thanks chaps

Would Rage be so kind as to repost his Oggy files please? they seem to have helped the chap above

This post has been edited by AEFAz on Monday, Nov 28 2005, 01:45

[SavageSoldier]

Yo dog, I dont know if you ever got that problem fixed, but I had the same thing happen. I found out why. I was trying to run the game from my virtual drive, instead of the C drive. You have to open the Virtual Drive, copy the gta exe file, and put it on the C drive folder (you will replace the original one) After that, it worked fine for me. May not help, but thought I'd suggest it.

[jaeger_v]

hey, no bodys replied in this topic, so i doubt this will be answered, but i have the same problem as affaez and adriot.
my operating system is: 5.1, Built 2600 (thats what it says)
graphics card: NVIDIA Geforce2 MX/MX 400
Memory is: 64 MB
Processor: Intel pentium 4CPU 2.40 GHZ
RAM: 512 MB

i do all the stuff (get the vorbisfile etc.) and ti always come sup with the: procedure entry point ogg_stream_reset_serialno could not be located in the dynamic link library ogg.dll message.
If you cant send the files again, rage, can you tell me what the files are or where i can get them from?

thnx, if anyone can help

[Gurjit]

I just downloaded san andres i try to open it but says vorbisfile.dll is not install or something, so went to google.com and got it but i do not know how to install vorbisfile.dll

somebody please email me back at gurjitflame301@hotmail.com

thx