NYJets19 Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 I am extremely frustrated because my computer is well over the reccomended system requirments. However, there is a problem with my video card. The Required is 128MB, and mine is 256MB, but it is an ASUS model. (I have the San Andreas Second Edition by the way) I just looked at the back of the game box and saw how it said GeForce 3 or higher is reccomended, but it never said ANYTHING about how others WONT work. So, everything works on my game except once I go to the actual game. The whole environment becomes all pixelated and I can't see where I'm going, and its unplayable. I'm wondering, is there any drivers or patches or ANYTHING that could help San Andreas run on my computer?? I know its the video card and nothing else. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike0 Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 If it's 256 MB then it is enough. Unless if it's one of those nVidia Turbo Cache graphics, where the graphics card takes memory from the main RAM. Post your PC specs and try to find out which graphics chip does the ASUS card have. It has to be from ATI or nVidia. I don't think it is from anyone else. Did you try to update the drivers also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 The manufacturer of your video card has no real meaning on the card's compatibility, its the actual brand and model of card that makes the difference. ASUS is just one of the many companies that sells NVIDIA's or ATI's gfx cards so you'll need to tell us more about what card you have and also the rest of your specs even though its most probably video card related. Updating your drivers would help but we need what brand card you have, if its NVIDIA or ATI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYJets19 Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) My computer is... 2.66 GHz 16x DVD drive 512 RAM Pentium 4 Windows XP And I just looked, my video card is ASUS V9520 v44.03 and its nVidia or whatever it is Which sites would I find the appropriate drivers and how do I install them (if that is the problem with my game) Edited January 3, 2006 by NYJets19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 A 9250 is a ATi card not NVIDIA, so either you've got it mixed up or you have got one strange video card. Either way ATi or NVIDIA you'd get drivers from the official websites of either company, NVIDIA.com ATi.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYJets19 Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 I went on the Control Panel of my pc, and there was a link for the nVidia side view program (comes with a nVidia card I believe) ... so I dunno haha Ok i'll try the drivers out, but once their downloaded and extracted, where should the files go?? On My Computer, there is a DRIVERS folder with a seperate Video folder on the inside, should that be where I extract it to? (This is my dad's computer so I dont know if he created the folder or not) Sorry I'm acting like a n00b but I don't know anyway else to explain this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike0 Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I just found out using google that your video card is a GeForce FX 5200. And I guess v 44.03 is the version of your video driver. If it is then it is an old driver. The newest ones are over the number 80. You can download the latest drivers for you graphics card here: nvidia driver 81.98 Click on "Primary download site" and agree to the license agreement. You can save the file to any folder you want. It is not important. Then run the file you just downloaded and follow the instructions. If all goes well that should update the video driver. Then delete the file gta_sa.set which is in : My Documents/GTA San Andreas User Files/ Or something like that. I don't remember anymore and I don't have it installed (since my PC is too slow). (But I'm getting a new one this week) Also people had experienced problems with rendering pedestrians with the FX 5200. Maybe updating the driver should help fix it. But definitely 44.03 are not DX9 compatible drivers and I think that was the main problem, since you have to have DX9 compatible video driver installed. Post back here if it fixes the problem (or if it doesn't) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYJets19 Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 After updating my video card, everything worked out fine. San Andreas now runs beautifully and smoothly, thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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