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SAndreas randomly restarts


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I know it has been posted before but it did not help me so im gonna try again.

GTA san anreas restarts my computer COMPLETLY randomly, can be 5min can be 30min. But it always happens. I took a photo of the blue screen that comes after it happpens. (lol dont know how to post it). please help with both problems biggrin.gif

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It seems that if the new sound card drivers (or if no new drivers are available), turning off the hardware acceleration and replacing the eax.dll file with older one won't help, the problem can't be fixed yet.. We'll just have to wait till Rockstar releases patch of some sort. Mine crashes allmost always when entering places/cars when mission is running.

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i'm suffering with the same problem, the reboots are totally random, it's very frustrating mad.gif ! I have tried to remove as many back ground app’s as possible and mess around with the audio and video settings in the game but it still have the same problem.

 

Has anyone been in touch with rockstar games support?

 

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I had the same problem until I found the stream.ini in the GTA San Andreas directory.

There's a setting for the memory and the devkit_memory. I have absolutely no idea what it does but I doubled both numbers (nothing to loose at this moment) and had not have a crash since that. Even the lag is now a little bit better ... at least I can almost enjoy this otherwise great game.

 

This is how my stream.ini now looks like:

 

 

memory  27000

devkit_memory 27000

vehicles 14

pe_lightchangerate 0.0005

pe_lightingbasecap 0.35

pe_lightingbasemult 0.5

pe_leftx 16

pe_topy  16

pe_rightx 16

pe_bottomy 16

dontbuildpaths

 

Maybe someone know what all the numbers mean and I hope this work for other people too.

 

My system specs: P4C 2.8GHz, 1 GB DDR400, X800XTPE, WinXP Pro SP2, Audigy 2, all the latest driver.

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I tried that. It still crashed but now the pic didn't stayed it gave me a black screen and all lights of the comp wen't on. biggrin.gif HDD-light and DVD-drive light just stayed on and dvd-drive didn't respond when I tried to take the disc out.. Power button worked. So diffrence for me was that instead of jammed pic the screen goes black and before HDD and DVD-lights wen't off, now they lit up when it crashes.. Damn I really hope they get their patch out really soon...

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Did not work for me either. It still just randomly restarts and the same blue screen appears. This is soooo anoying, been wiating for this game forever and now i cant play it sad.gif

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It still crashes but now only in missions(it think),found a new bug game crashes but not rebooting the comp(thnx god) when I just exit the car.

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i have been doing some digging around and found that if you set your audio to use "no acceleration" via "dxdiag" (start, run, type "dxdiag" & press enter) on the sound1 tab the game seems to run more stable. i have been playing the game for a few hours with out a crach or restart.

 

or failing that if you use the nvidia audio drives you could try installing the realtek audio codec drivers from the realtek web site this helps the game run stable, but so far i have not had to just used the "no acceleration" setting via dxdiag, and with any luck thats all that will be needed to be done.

 

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BigDumbRedneck

The AC97 codecs helped, but rolling sound acceleration back really is doing it...for now.

Good luck y'all!

 

BDR

 

nevermind..the game is locking up my system now, no random restarts....and I mean LOCKED!!

 

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I've tried the "No acceleration" in dxdiag. But in order to have my sub-output working on my motherboard (a7n8x) the nvidia softawre automatically sets it back to full. I guess theres no way around that but I'll turn it off for now

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Thanks man I have put to the No Acceleration and it seems that game is working normally now cookie.gif somebody have here a slowdown in Main Menu?? Cause the game is running normally and the menu is so slow.

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The bug is fixed! biggrin.gif I put the thing in dxdiag to "no accelaration" and BAMM I can play without random restarts. The downpart is that the sound is kinda f*cked up (doohhh, No acceleration) but it beats the hell outa random restarts. Thumbs up for Ed.Hunter for his digging and posting it quick so I (and others) could play this awsome game!

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