[ChazFox]

Hi there, I decided I'd download GTA1 from the Rockstar Website (because I love the classics ) and so I installed and ran it. The menu works perfectly fine, but once I'm on the streets and the guy says "Graaaand Theft Auto!" I get something a little like this:



Anything doing? My system specs are:

2GB Ram
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (I already know Thief Deadly Shadows has multicore issues, perhaps it's this?)
NVidia Geforce 8600 512MB
Windows XP SP2.

If I forgot any other details just feel free to shoot me

Thanks again for your help guys!

UPDATE:

Don't bother telling me to make sure I have the latest drivers and such like either. I just did that now after reading a similar problem, and now my problem's gotten worse. GTA won't even run now, I just get Windows' very unhelpful "GTA Has caused an error and must shut down, sucks to be you" window. Any ideas for this?

This post has been edited by ChazFox on Sunday, Jan 6 2008, 15:06

[Sektor]

GTA might be corrupting your player_a.dat after the first run (I don't know what causes this, it hasn't happened to me). That's the high score and settings file. You can try reinstalling the game and making a copy of player_a.dat before you run GTA or download this version: GTA1_player_a.dat.zip and extract to gta\gtadata. Unfortunately it will become corrupt each time you run GTA, so you have to keep restoring it. This may only be a problem with the free version of GTA, you may have better luck with a no cd (cracked) version of the exe.

I would try changing resolution for the video problem, push F11 after the game starts.

[Ja750]

Try turning your hardware acceleration down a bit.

[Blayney]

This is the exact problem I have

1GB RAM
AMD Sempron 3200+
Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT
XP SP2

Don't think it's a multicore issue, cos I've got same problem.

Am trying different things, hopefully will get results soon

edit - also adjusted the resolution through every single one with no change

[Spider-Vice]

You PC's are too fast for the game.

[Ja750]

Right click desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot:



Apply > ok.

Adjust the slider to any particular setting if this one don't work.

[FulValBot]

this is a knowed problem of all geforce 8 series on windows xp. on vista it works fine.

use this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=115XM8CX extract archive on gta1 folder and open file .exe all times when you join gta1 (before of gta1) this fix file player_a.dat and all musics. for bug of graphics i think that with all geforce 8 series it can't be fix... on xp. on vista it works fine.

[filipetolhuizen]

Over a year and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore.

[yojo2]

QUOTE (filipetolhuizen @ Aug 5 2009, 06:33)

Over a year and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore.

Well... there are probably more serious bugs to fix than those in old games that hardly anyone with GF8 plays these days.

[The Horror Is Alive]

QUOTE (yojo2 @ Aug 5 2009, 07:41)

QUOTE (filipetolhuizen @ Aug 5 2009, 06:33) Over a year and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore. Well... there are probably more serious bugs to fix than those in old games that hardly anyone with GF8 plays these days.

So damn true. Sad, really. But true.

[Greer55]

QUOTE (filipetolhuizen @ Wednesday, Aug 5 2009, 04:33)

Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore.

Nvidia doesn't care particularly about updating their mobility drivers. Nvidia doesn't care what you or anyone else thinks of them.