[scotthedge12]

got a copy of gta3 for a few bucks at the bookstore today. When I go to start gta3 up, it screws up my formatting before it opens, plays the intro then goes to a black screen. I have to ctrl alt delete to get it off and even then it freezes in my upper left hand corner for 10 minutes or so. I have never gotten the game to open to the main menu. I changed my preferences to windows 98/2000/xp etc etc. That didn't work. I have Windows 7 and a gtx550ti graphics card. I tried to turn off all the features of the card for this game but that didn't help.

I saw someone on steam forum saying to delete some of the files in the gta3 folder because one of the start up files is too out of date for new computers. However some of the post was blank so I couldn't find an answer. I am almost tempted to just pay 10 bucks off steam and get the game that way....but it seems steams version has nothing but problems as well. How do I get rid of this black screen lock up?!

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Steam version is great actually, it fixes one glitch from the disc version, the headlight corona glitch on cars. The only problem with the Steam version is that there is a bug with cars (they all look black) but there is a fix for that created by a Steam forum member.

Do you get an error window when that happens? Like an unhandled exception? I don't suppose you have any mods installed?

[Filip454]

Black screen is a problem with windows.

Unfortunately it's just a patch which makes errors.

Look here: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/01/windows-7...n-of-death-fix/

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You didn't even read the first post right. What you have just posted is completely unrelated.

[universetwisters]

QUOTE (scotthedge12 @ Thursday, Aug 9 2012, 21:59)

got a copy of gta3 for a few bucks at the bookstore today

Maybe that's the problem? I never heard of any bookstores selling computer games, unless they're secondhand. Maybe you bought yourself a GTA 3 in bad condition?

[sibs44]

On Windows 7, click start and search for "view advanced system settings"

Go to the advance tab and click settings under the performance tab

Then go to Data Execution Prevention

Turn on DEP if you haven't already, then add gta3.exe from steam to the list.

It should work now.

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He doesn't have the Steam version.