Pressing ESC to the menu hangs the game

[s l i m]

So i'm in the game, playing around, doing missions, tapping hookers asses, etc... then i decide to pause for a while and get a snack.. i press esc to go to the menu and sometimes the game just blanks out and no response... i get this blank screen, cant move the mouse, alt tab and all i see is this black screen and my windows cursor.... this happens often but not all the time... I have all the latest drivers for my sound and video card.. this is really pissing me off...

[DJMind]

I have the same problem, it doesn't happen all the time, but it happens alot. It also happens about half of the time I walk or run into the save point disc. I haven't found a fix yet as most people are not having this problem.

 

My Specs:

AMD Sempron 2500+ w/ 256MB DDR333-SDRAM

Chaintech SKT600

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

Soundblaster Live!

Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2)

[dima15]

yes its happening on my computer too

[//ghost]

There have been several known issues that cause this.

 

1) Nvidia sound drivers (if you use onboard sound) - uninstall/reinstall/update

 

2) Catalyst drivers for ATI cards - if you are using the latest ones, roll back to a previous version one-by-one until it starts working. If you don't really care which version you use, Catalyst 4.9's have a very high chance of solving your problem, as they are very stable for most if not all games. You can also get drivers that boost your video performance - Omega Drivers (google them) Those are modified Catalyst and Nvidia drivers that raise your fps and general performance compared to Catalysts.

 

3) Sound Cards in general - update your drivers for the sound card

 

I don't know of anything else you can try at the moment, but I hope this helps.