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Vice City Crash Helper


YeTi
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Ok i wasn't planning on releasing this but Vercetti Gangsta convinved me otherwise.

 

VCCH is a small application that will close Vice City in the event of a problem. It uses hot keys to do this so at any point during the game if you press CTRL&X it will close VC.

 

I am releasing it in the VC-MP forum as i originally made it for VC-MP. I recieved a couple of those crashes that are black screen and the only way to get rid of them is by crashing your computer and restarting. Now hopefully this program should prevent you from having to crash the computer. But i haven't recieved one of those crashes to test it yet so i can't say it does for certain.

 

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As you can see it's got a simple lay out design. And is easy to use.

 

Now i've run out of things to say about it so:

 

Vice City Crash Helper Download Link

 

One final note this tool is not supported by the team of VC-MP in any way shape or form it is totally unofficial.

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R.I.P. Chi Shingi Meiyo

 

21/09/2005 - 07/03/2007

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16/08/2008 - Current

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Vercetti Gangsta

Yes I convinced him like I convinced Bill Gates to keep his hairstyle monocle.gif

Anywho the program is simple yes, but it's good to use! I hate when my PC goes black and I need to restart.

P.s. YeTi I luv ya O_O [/ghey]

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If this works then hell youve saved everyone lots of pointless reboots rah.gif

 

I know when I sure as hell hate those damn crashes.. especially when messing around when VCMP is loading.. certain computer-rebooting crash whatsthat.gif

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If you mean the vicecity.exe then yes. Allso if you mean the programs Exe turn.gif

Allso remember that this allso works for LC (MP), because it's running on Vice City engine wink.gif

Anywho, Knife you said that you couldnt play VCMP because that you crashed too many times and you needed to reboot right? Well you could use this program then smile.gif

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If this works then hell youve saved everyone lots of pointless reboots rah.gif

If like i said i haven't had chance to test it yet.

 

Thanks for the thanks guys smile.gif .

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Andolini Mafia Family

 

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nice one mate

 

altho i did notice that when ya get those crashes the reason ya screen stays black is a direct x fault in windows

 

ad its cos yav got the same resolution on the desktop as ingame

if ya have different resolutions then it does switch to the desktop cos it is forced to by the rez change

 

havin said that i get exactly the same problem with san andreas when i close that

any chance of one for sa YeTi mate

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ad its cos yav got the same resolution on the desktop as ingame

Nope not true. My graphics card (Intel Extreme Graphics ph34r.gif ) runs Vice City in 640 x 480. But my desktop is running at, 1024 x 768 screenresolution.

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well like i said it stopped it happenin with vc for me

 

but i still get it with san an and that is diff rez

 

so god only knows where this bug comes from confused.gif

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Yeah my res in Vice & SA is 800x600 but it desktop is a lot bigger.

MPantheR made a similar thing for SA which you can find Here

 

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nice one statico

 

altho it does raise the question

why are all yall usin such low rez confused.gif

 

im assumin its due to cpu power

but ya could proply get better rez if ya turn yer colour to 16 bit instead of 32

 

if its already on 16 i hope santa fetches ya a nice spangly rad x800 for crimbo

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if you get black screen gta-vc crash and you have dualscreen you can use other screen to launch process explorer or taskman to kill gta-vc without need to restart smile.gif

 

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if you get black screen gta-vc crash and you have dualscreen you can use other screen to launch process explorer or taskman to kill gta-vc without need to restart smile.gif

True but not many people have got a dual screen tounge.gif .

 

@Squiddy the program does a similar thing when it is running the buttons control+x are global hotkeys. When pressed they will either close VC or tell you that VC is open. I might update the program to allow the user to choose a hot key, i'm a little busy right now though.

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I've experienced ceveral times that it doesnt close VC when the screen goes black.

I think that it might be a good idea to make a hotkey to close explorer.exe and then allow the program to restart explorer.exe

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I think that it might be a good idea to make a hotkey to close explorer.exe and then allow the program to restart explorer.exe

O_o

 

Why would that be a good idea? People would loose all open programs and all unsaved work.

 

I suppose if it doesn't work during a black screen crash the program itself is pretty useless then.

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21/09/2005 - 07/03/2007

Andolini Mafia Family

 

16/08/2008 - Current

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o_O

 

I think that it would spare alot of time to close & restart explorer.exe than restarting the whole PC.

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Uhm. I think it is enough to use terminateprocess. Because it is doing the same as the taskman...
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