[DominionSpy]

A friend of mine is having a very strange problem.

Every time he starts GTA2 (or Half Life 1 or Fraps) his computer resets.
He's tried getting the latest drivers for his video card (Radeon 9800), using the patch, setting compatibility mode to Windows 98 and some other things. He also has the latest version of DirectX (0.9c).

Nothing has any effect whatsoever. He can play all of his other games (including GTA III and Vice City), but not those programs.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Purpleleavez]

i just bought the gta classics collection for pc. i installed gta 1, 1969 london, and gta2. the setup programs work, but when i try to run the games themselves, i get an error message that looks like this: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library -- Runtime Error! Program: C:\PROGRA~1\ROCKST~1\GRANDT~2\WINO\GRANDT~1.EXE -- abnormal program termination" Can anyone tell me what the deal is??? I've called rockstar and take2games support and they tried msconfig, they tried disabling my antivirus, they tried compatibility mode. I don't know what to do. I really want to play these games. Someone please help me out...

[limiting factor]

I've got a problem that no-one seems to have posted about.

GTA2 has loaded OK in XP, and I can get it to start, but once I'm in the game, all movement runs at an impossible speed - like 5 or 10 times normal - making it impossible to control.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanx.

[Pseudocool]

I have exactly the opposide.

To fix it. GTA Manager > Video > Left top corner, check 'Frame Limiter' and it should be ok.

My problem is, I played GTA2 at my friend's house, and it works fine. I installed it at my house (legal copy) and ingame, it's pretty slow comparing to the normal speed. How can I fix this?

[Dark Gallon]

QUOTE (Pseudocool @ Dec 27 2004, 16:01)

I have exactly the opposide. To fix it. GTA Manager > Video > Left top corner, check 'Frame Limiter' and it should be ok. My problem is, I played GTA2 at my friend's house, and it works fine. I installed it at my house (legal copy) and ingame, it's pretty slow comparing to the normal speed. How can I fix this?

I have the same problem here

I use Windows XP Professional Edition...anyone can help us?

[seadog]

QUOTE (Dark Gallon @ Dec 30 2004, 19:13)

QUOTE (Pseudocool @ Dec 27 2004, 16:01) I have exactly the opposide. To fix it. GTA Manager > Video > Left top corner, check 'Frame Limiter' and it should be ok. My problem is, I played GTA2 at my friend's house, and it works fine. I installed it at my house (legal copy) and ingame, it's pretty slow comparing to the normal speed. How can I fix this? I have the same problem here I use Windows XP Professional Edition...anyone can help us?

Hi! I've got exactly the same problem. I only found this forum in search of a solution to this problem. I'm glad to see there's recent posts with similar questions.

Actually i've got GTA2 installed on a number of pc's. Most of which run it fine. I was running XP + SP1 since last week when my mobo died. I got a new mobo, installed XP and SP2 and the latest nforce + geforce drivers. I think this problem is only with XP + SP2. Counter Strike runs fine.

When i first came into the city i already noticed the walking was slow. Driving cars felt even slower. Framerate was too low, about 10 to 15 i'd guess. I went into the manager and turned off "frame rate limiter". Then it went super fast! So you'd say the 3d system was working ok. I think the problem is with the "frame rate limiter" in combination with SP2.

So i wanted to see what the actual framerate was. I downloaded and launched Fraps. The game all of a sudden played like normal. Smooth graphics with fast car action.

I've also noticed this slow behavior on a friends pc, also with SP2. Running Fraps is only a temporary solution. I'd like to know how to solve it good.

[seadog]

Though launching Fraps solves the too low framerate, car response does seems to be a tad bit slower than on a good working rig.

[seadog]

Forget i mentioned Fraps. There's a registry key called min_frame_rate in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DMA Design Ltd\GTA2\Screen

Setting it to 1 solved the low framerate. But the car response is still a bit off IMHO.

[JDF]

QUOTE (Cerbera @ Apr 6 2003, 10:17)

GTA2 runs on my PC in Windows XP Home fine, didn't have to change anything. I just clicked through the warnings about known incompatability issues, it installed and that was that. Aside from very occasional problems with the sound, it runs perfectly for me.

Thanks, I needed to know that. Whoops...I've already sent an email to Take2. Oh well, who cares.

So why exactly, just out of curiousity, does it say there's a compatibility issue?

Is it just that every so often the radio pauses or skips or something (no big deal)?

[TheJkWhoSaysNi]

Heres something that took me a while to figure out. I was trying to run the new downloaded version of GTA2 at 1600x1200 but it wouldnt go above 1024x768 even though 1600x1200 was selected. Turning off special recognition solved this. May be useful to someone.

[Sektor]

The compatibility issue was added by Microsoft since thousands of people were using poorly cracked versions that crashed on XP. Then they clicked the submit error report to Microsoft button. Microsoft received heaps of reports so they added it to known problem list. That's my theory.

[tuomas]

i've just downloaded gta2 10.3 patch from www.gta2.com.
i install the patch and try to run it but the thing says please insert correct cd.
i bought the game from a store its not burned or anythin.
help me.

[DominionSpy]

QUOTE (tuomas @ Jan 25 2005, 13:37)

i've just downloaded gta2 10.3 patch from www.gta2.com. i install the patch and try to run it but the thing says please insert correct cd. i bought the game from a store its not burned or anythin. help me.

I had exactly the same problem. I just had to reinstall the game without the path.

[~andy]

This isnt really a troubleshooting question but I didnt think I should make a whole new topic for it. How the hell do you change radio stations in vehicles? On the playstation you would just press the up button.

[DominionSpy]

QUOTE (~andy @ Mar 17 2005, 16:44)

This isnt really a troubleshooting question but I didnt think I should make a whole new topic for it. How the hell do you change radio stations in vehicles? On the playstation you would just press the up button.

I believe it is F1 and F2 to cycle through the radio stations.

[Cerbera]

It's just F5, actually. Some cars do not receive all radio stations and some cars only receive one station. IIRC, motorbikes don't receive any radio stations. If you are playing on a new level made by a modifier then the radio stations cars receive could have been set by the modifier, but it will still be F5 to switch station.

F1, F2, and F3 are for sending messages to individuals in multiplayer games with F4 sending to all players in the game. F5 cycles through the radio, F6 pauses the game, F7 has no function that I can remember, F8 toggles the frame limiter on or off, F9 displays the district you are in, F10 displays the last message you received (doesn't repeat kill frenzy messages), F11 allows you to switch resolution and if you used the "porkcharsui" cheat in the PC version F12 will reload the current level.

(EDIT) Remembering what F12 did brought back memories of making my GTA1 cities. I'll be re-vamping them somewhen this year.

This post has been edited by Cerbera on Friday, Mar 18 2005, 15:27

[~andy]

Aha, it's F5 in GTA and F1+F2 in GTA2, cheers. Just got broadband so I downloaded them from R* Classics - don't suppose there are any decent mod sites still going for GTA and GTA2, like codenamegta but for the classics?

*edit* bah, shouldve read cerb's post more slowly, I'll keep an eye on your site

This post has been edited by ~andy on Saturday, Mar 19 2005, 02:01

[gta2lover]

hi. i downloaded gta2 and i got the xp patch alright, but when i start gtas2 it says that it can't load dmaglide.dll wot's wrong?

[Surpress]

QUOTE (DominionSpy @ Jan 25 2005, 14:14)

QUOTE (tuomas @ Jan 25 2005, 13:37) i've just downloaded gta2 10.3 patch from www.gta2.com. i install the patch and try to run it but the thing says please insert correct cd. i bought the game from a store its not burned or anythin. help me. I had exactly the same problem. I just had to reinstall the game without the path.

I tried that, still won't work.

I even tried doing a no cd crack (Which is not warez) but still will not work.

Is there not some kind of fix somewhere for this?

[Sektor.]

Try the patch on my site: http://gtamp.com/gta2 but then you will have to copy the radio to the HD or just play without music.

This post has been edited by Sektor on Friday, Dec 5 2008, 02:50