[RASAS]

will gta sa work with windows 7 ?

[Ryan]

I'm on Windows 7 64-bit and it works just fine for me.

[RASAS]

wait it works fine your absolutely sure about that, because im buying an asus laptop that has windows 7, wait what brand is your laptop ?

This post has been edited by RASAS on Thursday, Dec 31 2009, 17:47

[Username482]

I'm on windows 7 32bit,I don't have any problems.

[lil weasel]

GTA:SA Works on all Windows Operating Systems:

It's a matter of Does Your Computer have the Guts to Run it.
Processing Speed, memory RAM, Video Card, etc.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=189214

[Ryan]

QUOTE (RASAS @ Dec 31 2009, 13:45)

wait it works fine your absolutely sure about that, because im buying an asus laptop that has windows 7, wait what brand is your laptop ?

I have a desktop, and it's custom built by myself.

[˸øåíüêà]

I just can not stop myself from joking on my favourite topic:

The system requirements on the back said Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux.

[radioman]

III, VC, and SA and even IV work extremely well on Windows 7 32-bit, I have an HP laptop that came installed with Vista Home Premium, but it came with a free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium, so I installed the upgrade and now have Windows 7 Home Premium w/an AMD Athlon x2 64 Dual Core processor, 3GB DDR 2 RAM, and an Nvidia Geforce 8200M G w/1407mb vram, and SA runs great on any setting.-I have everything maxed out on it except for the visual fx which is at Medium. and I get no lag at all. The funny thing is, I didn't even have to delete the .set file after the upgrade from Vista to 7.-lol. So, yes as long as you have decent specs, all GTA's will work just fine with Windows 7.

[Spider-Vice]

SA works with every OS above 95.

[Choom]

QUOTE (˸øåíüêà @ Dec 31 2009, 22:35)

I just can not stop myself from joking on my favourite topic: The system requirements on the back said Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux.

It works on Linux too, with Cedega at least, though you won't get to benefit from shaders, and it's slower than Windows. The best part of it is that you can run it over Compiz and it will stick to a single face of the cube, or a single desktop.

Anyway, regarding OP, I have been playing San Andreas recently on Windows 7 without any issues. The first version of the game (AKA v1.0 or the hot coffee version) disables Aero for some reason while the game is running, even if you alt+tab and it goes to the background, but this bug disappears once you patch it to v1.1.

[radioman]

QUOTE

Anyway, regarding OP, I have been playing San Andreas recently on Windows 7 without any issues. The first version of the game (AKA v1.0 or the hot coffee version) disables Aero for some reason while the game is running, even if you alt+tab and it goes to the background, but this bug disappears once you patch it to v1.1.

That part isn't entirely true, even with V2 (which includes the 1.1 patch fixes) Windows still switches to Windows 7 Basic mode while the game is running-even Vista does this(Windows runs in Vista Basic mode while game is running). I have 7 Home Premium, and every time I start the game, I get a notification in the task bar that says it switched to 7 Basic mode, then when I exit the game it goes back to Premium mode. On my Vista desktop, that is Vista Home Premium, goes to Vista Basic mode when I start the game. III is the only game I found that doesn't do this. It isn't really a big deal though, since the game runs lag free on 7 and Vista, as long as you have decent specs-ie. NO Intel video cards, VIA/SIS Video cards, No Sempron processors, and NO Intel Celeron processors that are less than 2 GHZ, as these specs do not tend to run as well on Vista and 7 as they do on XP. Just a heads up.

[kevinyoung03]

If you have the perfect hardware support for that and windows will be updated then it will surely be working.

Mercedes Headlights

This post has been edited by kevinyoung03 on Thursday, Jan 7 2010, 18:30

[Choom]

QUOTE (radioman @ Jan 3 2010, 08:23)

QUOTE Anyway, regarding OP, I have been playing San Andreas recently on Windows 7 without any issues. The first version of the game (AKA v1.0 or the hot coffee version) disables Aero for some reason while the game is running, even if you alt+tab and it goes to the background, but this bug disappears once you patch it to v1.1. That part isn't entirely true, even with V2 (which includes the 1.1 patch fixes) Windows still switches to Windows 7 Basic mode while the game is running-even Vista does this(Windows runs in Vista Basic mode while game is running).

Not here. With the patch Aero runs perfectly fine.

http://www.singlement.net/~jps/gtasa-aero-win7.jpg

Next time please refrain from calling others liars.

[radioman]

QUOTE (Choom @ Jan 6 2010, 23:59)

QUOTE (radioman @ Jan 3 2010, 08:23) QUOTE Anyway, regarding OP, I have been playing San Andreas recently on Windows 7 without any issues. The first version of the game (AKA v1.0 or the hot coffee version) disables Aero for some reason while the game is running, even if you alt+tab and it goes to the background, but this bug disappears once you patch it to v1.1. That part isn't entirely true, even with V2 (which includes the 1.1 patch fixes) Windows still switches to Windows 7 Basic mode while the game is running-even Vista does this(Windows runs in Vista Basic mode while game is running). Not here. With the patch Aero runs perfectly fine. http://www.singlement.net/~jps/gtasa-aero-win7.jpg Next time please refrain from calling others liars.

Actually, Here's photo proof of SA running in Windows 7 Basic mode while on 7 Home Premium, and Here's the photo of the normal 7 Home Premium desktop. Are you on 7 ultimate or Professional? If so, that might be why it works right for you. So, it is true what I said in my last post. Just a heads up. These snapshots were taken from an HP Pavillion laptop w/ Windows 7 Home Premium.

This post has been edited by radioman on Thursday, Jan 7 2010, 08:23

[Choom]

QUOTE (radioman @ Jan 7 2010, 08:20)

QUOTE (Choom @ Jan 6 2010, 23:59) QUOTE (radioman @ Jan 3 2010, 08:23) QUOTE Anyway, regarding OP, I have been playing San Andreas recently on Windows 7 without any issues. The first version of the game (AKA v1.0 or the hot coffee version) disables Aero for some reason while the game is running, even if you alt+tab and it goes to the background, but this bug disappears once you patch it to v1.1. That part isn't entirely true, even with V2 (which includes the 1.1 patch fixes) Windows still switches to Windows 7 Basic mode while the game is running-even Vista does this(Windows runs in Vista Basic mode while game is running). Not here. With the patch Aero runs perfectly fine. http://www.singlement.net/~jps/gtasa-aero-win7.jpg Next time please refrain from calling others liars. Actually, Here's photo proof of SA running in Windows 7 Basic mode while on 7 Home Premium, and Here's the photo of the normal 7 Home Premium desktop. Are you on 7 ultimate or Professional? If so, that might be why it works right for you. So, it is true what I said in my last post. Just a heads up. These snapshots were taken from an HP Pavillion laptop w/ Windows 7 Home Premium.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit en-US, and the game is the original copy from before the hot coffee scandal with patch 1.0.1 applied. I believe that Windows wanted to change the shortcut so that the game would always run in compatibility mode before I patched it, not entirely sure though. Whatever it was stopped happening after the patch. You might want to check your shortcuts to ensure that compatibility mode is disabled.

[radioman]

I have V2 of the game, and I don't use compatibility modes on either PC-the Vista desktop or Windows 7 laptop. I just checked the shortcut properties, and it isn't using any compatibilty modes, as the box is not checked that says "Run this program in compatibilty mode for". You have the same version of Windows I do, the only difference is, yours is a 64-bit OS and mine is a 32-bit OS. So, I guess this is only either a 32-bit issue, or a V2/V1 (original) issue then.?

[yojo2]

I have Win7 x64 and I have a problem with SA. My mouse is not working - I can move it around menus, but I can't click anything; also in game it doesn't work at all. Same thing is with VC, but what's strange GTAIII works like a charm.

Can be anything done about this? Compatibility modes didn't help.

[james227uk]

Same worked fine. Major problem with Data Execution Prevention, but that's due to my laptop being "over protective"

[Vinnie]

RE: The Box, It does indeed say 2000 and above. However it does work just fine on Windows 98, I used it on 98 for a while. I guess if you tried to get tech support they would decline you it if you had anything older than 2k.

Also yes as others have said SA will work on 7 fine just as it does on Vista.

[NTAuthority]

Aero disabling does not just depend on the version - on one system I used 1.01 and 2.0 side-by-side, and strangely 1.0 also re-enabled DWM after alt-tab-ing like 1.01+ and III/VC do. It could be just as random as the mouse glitch occurring - my current installation/month has the mouse glitch very bad: it occurs every launch, unless I do ~15 esc-outs. Strangely, it doesn't make the game crash now.