[Ring_of_Fire]

QUOTE (helal)

wow wow dude look i have vista home premium , i have GTA vice city , and san andreas plus many other games , all works fine for me ! check ur computer ?!? and winrar works with perfection on vista ,  , cj dont jump ? mouse dont move ? check every part of ur pc . ! no insult but the game isnt the error its ur computer !

Yeah, you were right. Compatibility Mode sucked all along. Compatibility Mode only fixes Access Denied/Violation and memory stack errors. It also allows installers and other software to detect that your OS isn't Vista, but one of the compatibility options.

Anyway, I bet you don't have an onboard sound card, right?

This post has been edited by Ring_of_Fire on Saturday, Feb 9 2008, 14:22

[[DnA]Cancer]

I need help , I have an alienware m5550 (brand new) installed vc and everything is ok , but when i come to play online right after it the loading bar is full and im supposed to be at the taxi building the screen stays black then cuts to the destop with an error. How should i correct this , please reply to offcock@hotmail.com thanks. I would really like to come back to support [DnA] Team

[Spuds725]

Is this for VC MP (multiplayer)??

[The Kirbster]

Thanks for the guide Ring_of_Fire, it helped me get VC working on Vista (before I joined GTAForums)! I have another way to fix the "mouse isn't working" glitch.

-When the mouse doesn't work in-game: I pause the game, then unpause, and the mouse started working again.
-When the mouse isn't working on the Main Menu: I navigate using the arrow keys and enter key and load my game. Afterwards, I pause the screen and unpause after the game is loaded, and it fixes this glitch.
-When the mouse isn't working on the Pause Menu: Unpause the game and pause again, it should do the trick.

Oh, and those ways work for San Andreas on Vista as well, I tried them.

[Isonis]

My vice city works fine on vista without changing anything

[The Kirbster]

QUOTE (Isonis @ Apr 30 2008, 22:52)

My vice city works fine on vista without changing anything

Mine did too, only sometimes the mouse wouldn't work and the keyboard would mess up. It's strange that it works on some systems, and not on others. I heard most problems are on Vista: Home Premium.

[gtamodder]

I had problems with the mouse too, I find it if locks up, and you pause the game, sometimes it WILL Freeze, on a black screen.

This happened to me in SA, I don't know how most people had no problem at all with VC, Or SA In Vista. And no even any solutions in this topic, fixes my problem. I had Vista Home Premuim Installed. GTA3 Worked fine though in Vista, no problem at all.

[mrcappo]

ok i uninstalled vice city because a mod f*cked it up and it was working fine
now when i reinstalled it the loading bar stops at the middle...


i did all the steps u mentioned but its still stopping at the middle and im getting an error

any help?

[gtamodder]

QUOTE (mrcappo @ May 9 2008, 19:22)

ok i uninstalled vice city because a mod f*cked it up and it was working fine now when i reinstalled it the loading bar stops at the middle... i did all the steps u mentioned but its still stopping at the middle and im getting an error any help?

Uninstall Vice City, delete gta_vc.set (Documents\GTA Vice City User Files), Now delete Vice City folder (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto Vice City)

Now go to

C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\VirtualStore\Program Files\Rockstar Games

In that folder, will be the Vice City folder. Delete it, now install Vice City. Should be fine now.

[mrcappo]

thanks so much
btw i didnt have to reinstall it

[angeloelibz24]

Vice City runs pretty well on my Vista Home Premium. All I just did is activate Compatibility Mode...to boost up performance. Without compatibility, it still works.

Anyway, thanks for the guide. Vice City runs a lot more faster now. This guide is good for most Vista users, but for those who have better specs (I mean not the kind of specs that can boost your System Rating up to 4.0+ but the kind of specs that Vista can handle just fine), there's no need of this anymore. I have an onboard sound card, an onboard GPU and a System Rating of 3.1 but everything runs fine without Compatibility Mode.

Yeah, sometimes the .set bug and the mouse-doesn't-work bug happen sometimes ONLY when I reinstall the game, update the game, update some drivers, installed new hardware, run a program in background while playing or something. But I pretty much figured it out myself without anyone's help (and without extra effort).

[claude11]

Hey, I have another problem regarding GTA....

My Vice City doesn't workt that well on my computer.
I have...

1 GB Ram
Intel(TR) Celeron® M CPU 530@ 1.73GHz
Windows Vista Home Premimum
128mb Video/Graphics Card

I updated my video graphics card to Mobile Intel® 965 Express chipset Family v. 7.14.10.1437, whatever that means...

My problem is that the game freezes every 15 20 minutes or whenever I get in a vehicle and change the radio station, and my CD compartment makes a loud revving noise.... recently, it started freezing and not working at all.....

I am really, REALLY bad with computers, so please, if you could help, avoid computer jargon. Thanks.

[Girish]

Is your cd scratched or something? If yes, try cleaning it.

If not, then the problem might lie with your Intel graphic card. They are never good for gaming and sadly, you cannot upgrade graphic cards on a laptop.

[gtamodder]

@claude11: Try cleaning it as girishb said, and if that doesn't work, try this.

And yes, you cannot upgrade the graphics card in a laptop, as it is soldered onto the board in the laptop, I think the only laptops you can upgrade the graphics card in, is the Alienware laptops.

[Ronnyboy]

Ok, so I have it installed on a Vista computer, and I can't get rid of the gta-vc.exe. Is there any way to remove it completely, even though it says I can't.

[radioman]

QUOTE (Ronnyboy @ Aug 20 2008, 19:55)

Ok, so I have it installed on a Vista computer, and I can't get rid of the gta-vc.exe. Is there any way to remove it completely, even though it says I can't.

Did you try an Unistall yet? that should get rid of it. Also, did you click on the properties to make sure it is not "read only"? That might be the case. Hope this helps.

[crazymodder]

are there ways to play this game on a 64 bit vista?

[radioman]

QUOTE (crazymodder @ Aug 20 2008, 21:02)

are there ways to play this game on a 64 bit vista?

If you have at least 2GB RAM, a decent graphics/video card, a decent processor (at least a dual core), and all up to date drivers, you should have no trouble playing the game on Vista. Hope this helps.

[crazymodder]

QUOTE (radioman @ Aug 22 2008, 07:26)

If you have at least 2GB RAM, a decent graphics/video card, a decent processor (at least a dual core), and all up to date drivers, you should have no trouble playing the game on Vista. Hope this helps.

no sh*t, 64 bit windows needs at least 4GB, a 2.5GHz dual core cpu and a 256MB 128 bit VGA.

[radioman]

Running the game (VC) in 98 compatibilty mode works great at fixing the mouse freeze issue, but when in compatibility mode the game does not recognize the save files, but when I go into the "Documents" folder and click on the Vice City User Files folder, the saves are still there. So how do you get the game to recognize the saves when using compatibility mode? I have Vista Home Premium, 2GB DDR2 RAM, AMD Athlon x2 Dual Core processor(2.1GHZ), ATI Radeon graphics/video card-it says approx. video memory 895mb.-Hope that helps-don't know if it's needed, but SA runs excellent on Vista on any setting, but VC is the worst about the mouse freezes for me.

btw, I thought it would be better to post here, as it is a Vista related problem, rather than making a new topic.

This post has been edited by radioman on Saturday, Oct 4 2008, 22:39