dogus2000 Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Hey gang, running Vice City on XP with fine specs. the game installs fine, and the very first time I tried to load it, things went fine and I played no problem for hours! Then, the very next time I tried, I clicked on the .exe file to open the game, and NOTHING happened -- the little windows hourglass popped up for a split second, the cd-rom spinned, and then nothing -- no error message, no system crash, no system slowdown -- i clicked and clicked and clicked and nothing happened! It is odd to say the least -- even more odd considering it DID work at first, and has worked a FEW times since then -- it USUALLY does NOT work, but sometimes if I try, it will randomly decide to work -- and when it does work, it works perfectly! I have tried many system restarts and reinstalls, to no avail. Considering I spent 50 dollars on this, "sometimes" working is not enough -- I want to make it clear that it RARELY works, i'm not not whining here! Can you imagine how much of a tease it is to only be able to play on rare occasions!? I have tested out many other games and programs and they all run fine -- I have GTAIII for PC, and that works fine too and never had this problem. I'm on my last nerve and about ready to exchange this damn game, but christ, I love it so much in the few hours that I've played it that I'd hate to have to do that -- CAN ANYONE HELP -- please, I'm beggin' ya! Specs: XP Athlon 2100+ on Biostar VIA KT333 512 mb DDR ram Geforce 4200 128 ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superilldude Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Sorry i would want to help you but i can'y i don't have the PC version but i have the PS2 version so i hope someone see's your topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iguanaman99 Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 my GTA 3 is going through a same period and my vice used to but one day it decided to work so.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vetinari Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 This is a long shot but i noticed loading VC takes quite a lot longer here if my Norton antivirus is enabled. Try disabling your antivirus - if you haven't already & see what gives (although i highly doubt it'll be related, judging from your description). The mention of "the CD starts spinning, then nothing" actually reminds of some CD protection thingy going haywire - had sthing similar with another game in the past and could only solve it by using my other drive. Also worth a shot, if you have access to more than one CD drive (but don't go buying one "coz it'll solve it" - i'm just suggesting it as a possibility) And another long shot: did you by any chance change the location of your "My Documents" folder while tweaking XP? Never know R* programmed the path to the files they leave behind there hardcoded (as in C:\blabla... instead of whatever path you changed it to). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicetopia Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 I had this problem with GTA 3. Then, it was my drivers. Video drivers, that is. Try installing the newest drivers. If that doesn't work, work your way back version-wise from Newest drivers to Oldest drivers, and I bet one of them will work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[USERNAME GOES HERE] Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 I had a problem kind of like that...I rang tech support and this is what they said: Get the exe file of the install cd and put that in your vice city folder instead of the current one. It should then work. I hope . Everytime that happens just do that. It works for me . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slakka Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 with me (i also had the very same problem with several games) new drivers for my graphics and sound cards worked. also, sometimes it helped just to reboot and/or to close a few background applications. this IS weird because i have a cutting edge system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesubseven Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 I had this problem with GTA 3. Then, it was my drivers. Video drivers, that is. Try installing the newest drivers. If that doesn't work, work your way back version-wise from Newest drivers to Oldest drivers, and I bet one of them will work [uSERNAME GOES HERE], you are a legend. I recently re-installed Windows XP and installed the latest nvidia drivers and wondered why VC wouldn't work. Rolled-back to the original microsoft drivers and vice works fine apart from the 60hz frame rate, but I'm downloading the fix for that now. Cheers mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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