Kuoxasar Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 I just bought GTA-VC for PC today. Whenever I load the game, I get an image of a spinning CD, and then the .exe closes. I don't know why this is happening. 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 1024 MB RAM 128 MB nVidia GForce4 Someone help please This happens with GTA3 too. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAKK2 Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Exactly same trouble. I can add that I have XP Home + SP1 512 MB RAM, 160 GB HDD, so problem not in decompressing textures i guess Help please Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1891122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurk Morrison Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 I've had this problem before as well. Have you tried restarting your computer? That usually works for me. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1892700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace7 Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 I am having that problem now i just press gta-vc.exe and nothing happens! I restarted the PC but it still doesn`t work! And it started when I have dowloaded Hidden Package program! I deleted it! But that didn`t work! Pentium 4 1800 Mhz 256MB Ram Daytona GeForce MX440 128MB Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1900215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA456 Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Yea it does that to me too! The spinning disc shows up for couple of seconds then it quits. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1903721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurk Morrison Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Uninstall and re-install. Remember... BACKUP EVERYTHING! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1915087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace7 Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I uninstalled and re-installed it three times and still! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1916507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurk Morrison Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Hmm? What OS are you running? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1916911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace7 Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I Have Windows XP pro Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1916946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerricho Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 (edited) I've been having this problem two. I bought GTA VC yesterday and installed it on my game partition (not primary). It installed without issue and I played if for an hour with the video res at 1024x768. The soul issue was that the sound was odd, like an echo. Today whenever I load the game, I get an image of a spinning CD, and then the .exe closes. I've rebooted many times. I tried reinstalling it on my primary partition as was recommended in the off-site tech support. this achieved nothing. I've reinstlaled it three times and I'm not about to spend the rest of my day doing the same thing. Any help would be very much appreciated. UPDATE: I wondered if this might be similar to a problem I had with Neverwinter Nights where the SECUROM disc protection had issues with XP and cd-burners. The CD would be recognised once after rebooting but subsequent attempts to run from the cd fail. Atari's soultion to this was for users to either buy a new DVD drive or use a No CD hack. Both horrendous solutions but the latter proved necessary. Having tried a no cd crack on Vice City the problem remains, only now it doesn't even mess around with the spinning disc icon. Is this possibley an issue with Windows XP Pro? It seems to be a common thread. I'm running it on Windows XP Pro (SP1) AMD Athlon XP 2800, with 256MB DDR RAM on a 120GB Maxtor HD. NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with onboard NVIDIA nForce 2 Soundcard Edited August 31, 2004 by Jerricho Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1931594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerricho Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Solution to above Thank heavens I've gotten this working. I can finally start playing. The problem was the Set file. Under Windows XP this file doesn't get uninstalled. So reinstalling the game won't help you. Delete the set file under C:\Documents and Settings\"User"\My Documents\GTA Vice City User Files Then restart. This seems to have fixed it for me. Been playing it all day. I hope this helps you. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1932481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurk Morrison Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 That doesn't seem to make sense? Do you have to keep deleting it everytime? Or just the once? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1932496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerricho Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I deleted it once. When you restart your game all the game settings will have reverted to their defaults. Change them to your preference and play on. The problem hasn't recurred since I did that. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1932577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
params7 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Actually if you replace the crack file with the one in the directory, believe me, it'll work. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1934032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerricho Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I got rid of the crack straight away. I only used it to see if the problem was with recognition of the disc, as I explained. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1934503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcj49 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 I've had the same problems for several days, now. I'm running XP Home SP2, P4 2.6mh, 512ram, nvidia geforce w/64mb. Been playing for at least 2 months without any problems and finished all missions and working on vigilante missions- no performance issues or other problems. During the last several days been getting that spinning cd pointer when I try to start game and no game. Cd player stops responding- won't eject vice city cd. Have to reboot to get cd player to work again. Device manager doesn't show any problems with the hardware and, oddly enough, event viewer doesn't indicate any problems whatsoever. I Tried: Rebooting- no result uninstalling and reinstalling with and without deleting my user files- no result I've been seeing this problem described in several other forums including the ms win xp forum, but I still haven't found an expanation, nor a solution that works for me. Hope someone can figure this out! Thanx Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1976554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 oops wrong topic Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1977123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkugly Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 so i noticed that when this happens i check my performace level and it shows my cpu running at 100%. even after like 20 mins it still shows this. what's it doing if its not running. under applicattions there's nothing being shown as running. under processes it shows gta-vc.exe running and using anywhere from 95 to 99% of the cpu cycles. what the heck is it doing? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1981122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin of LSPD Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 I'm having this problem too for the PC. And here is my computer stats: Windows XP service pack 1 2.00 GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor 798 MHz 512 MB Ram 48x CD Speed NVIDIA GeForce FX5200XT AGP 8x graphics card 128 MB DDR video memory Latest version of DirectX Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1982453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcj49 Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 I had the same identical problem on my PC as described in this thread- even down to the cpu running at a high percentage with nothing apparantly going on. (See my previous post above). After a lot of experimenting, I finally uninstalled Norton AV 2005 and that did the trick! I'm still trying to figure out why. I tried re-installing Norton and the problem came right back again. I shut off several features including Worm Detection, Auto Protect,... etc., but nothing seemed to work except uninstalling it from my system. I reinstalled Norton AV 2003 and there are no problems, so I guess I'll stick with the earlier version just so I can play the game! Geez, what a pain! Norton AV- Anti Virus or Anti Vice? Hope this helps someone. gcj49 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1987325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkugly Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 i just managed to get it working too, i had to update the firmware for my cd drive. i guess there was a problem with the piracy protection and my old cd drive. but once i did that it worked. so either there's alot of different things causing the same problem or the game is just screwed up and by sheer luck the game started working for us and we just think what we did fixed it heheheeheh..... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-1987458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_stereophonic Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 I'm also having the same problem, although trying the suggested solutions hasn't fixed it. It's VERY annoying.. I did manage to get it to work for ages by taking out the cd, clicking the icon, waiting for it to prompt for the cd, and then click "retry". This has stopped working. My specs are: Pentium 4 3.0GhZ processor 512mb ram 130gb HD 128 Radeon Graphics card XP Pro SP2 It's a brand new PC and I can't think of a reason why it won't work. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2034200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
attilla3 Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 anyone know how to fix this problem yet? i have tried all the above fixes but nothing seems to work... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2066394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickyc_the_one Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 This game is just annoying me now. Ive had this problem for weeks but to no avail. I used to play the disc fine on my old computer (Windows ME), but now ive just bought a new computer and upgraded to SP2. Now, whenever I go to play the game, I just get the spinning disc icon and my CD drive starts spinning...but nothing happens. The icon doesnt go away, so I have to go to control panel, go to "mouse", and reset the mouse icon. Hassle, ill tell you that. Ive tried everything: uninstalling the game, reinstalling removing save settings file havent used any cracks because it hasnt even loaded up yet disabling Nortons 2004 running the program in a different emulation mode (which worked on my copy of Mechwarrior 3) I short, I give up ! Rockstar, let me play this game ! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2096252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuoxasar Posted October 25, 2004 Author Share Posted October 25, 2004 I fixed my problem. Apparently, it was caused because I have two different CD drives (a DVD-R/RAM and a CD-RW.) If you install VC in one drive then put the play disc in the other drive, it will not load. I solved my problem simply by putting the CD in the other drive! Imagine that... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2098031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickyc_the_one Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 After an aggravated post yesterday, I've finally found a solution. The problem seems to be with the gta-vc.exe file that setup creates for Windows XP (+SP2). I downloaded a hacked gta-vc.exe file from the internet, which was not 3.11mb but about 2.94 mb. The game now runs smoothly on my new computer. If your looking to get a copy of a file, search on Kazaa or whatever you use, or the internet for a patched / cheated / different file. Worked fine for me ! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2099809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnclambert Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 I've had that problem before. this is how I fixed run gta-vc.exe under compatability mode for 98 ( can cause choppy graphics) make sure no mods are installed Delete user file then try and restart game. if you still have problems reinstall Deleting any leftover files, unistall doesn't remove mod files and then set compatability mode for win98 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2101827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias47 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Actually if you replace the crack file with the one in the directory, believe me, it'll work. what does that mean? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2128739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirkus34 Posted November 7, 2004 Share Posted November 7, 2004 It could have something to do with the differnce between cache from your CD-ROM to your hard drive (512kb on a cd-rom and 6mb on a harddrive isnt going to work right). It could also be the cd protection bs stuff. I also had this problem. I had an old CDRW (4x4x24x ) And I first installed the game through it. And I would get that problem. I could get it to work with the no-cd crack. But I wanted to fix the problem and not just beat around it. So I uninstalled it and bought me a new DVD drive at walmart (now $60.00, oh and heres an insider tip... the day after thanksgiving, they will be 10% off!). Then I installed it with that drive it worked perfect. I still have yet to update to SP2... but it fixed my problem with sp1 on xp pro. And I would also recommend that you don't post "How to get the no-cd crack" on a forum where people dislike warez. It'll get you and your man banned. specs: p4 3.0ghz w/ ht 800mhz FSB 1024 DDR400 PC3200 ATI Radeon 9200 AGP XP Pro SP1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2153066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janek Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 any chance of a link to that file? i have the same prob, its v1.1 that does it. download v1.0, it works~! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/143670-the-game-wont-load/#findComment-2164881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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