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san andreas not running or extream lag


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right i no theres a few topics about lag and slow games on here well mine is kinda like that only its gta the godfather sims lord of the rings any games like that not working but gta is bugging me the most as i want to play.

 

wat happens is i click icon game starts i go new game and the loading bar is very slow my hard drive sounds like its trying to run a crap disk (its not my disk drive as im playing no cd) and wen if it does load without freeze i cant move 5 paces without a temp freeze then move again. also the graphics mess up all the roads vanish or colours go crap my specs are

 

amd athlon proc 1.24gh

512 ram

geforce 6600gt

sound blaster

xp pro pack 2

 

thing is my games were working with these specs then they decided not to.ive virus scanned nuthing but cookies was found also no spyware ive tried changing my res ive tried lowing colour and setting it to low ive also changed all the things in game draw distance ete and nothing works

 

if anyone can help please do so thanks

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decrease the graphics to low and also decrease the resolution if needed...

1.24GHz is a bit low...

i think u need about double of that

also make sure u have atleast one GB of space in c: left

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ms.cooldude
my specs are

 

amd athlon proc 1.24gh

512 ram

geforce 6600gt

sound blaster

xp pro pack 2

You need at least 1.8GHz proccesor for the game to run propely. The rest is all fine.

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Update your Graphics Card driver's

Defrag your HDD

Kill all unnecessary processes.

 

Good Luck wink.gif

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i havent degraded this this is wat it looks like in game wen it starts freezing and laging as it is in the pic (if pic dose not show its a pic in game with graphics messed up) nether had this prob wen i first got the game only just started happening like random 1 day i dident do anthing ? whatsthat.gif

 

graphics updated

 

wat hd do i defrag i have 2 and theres 4 partions games on g operating system on c

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  • 2 weeks later...

ok sounds from comp gone but at least 4 of my games still not working but now its "san andreas" has encountered a problem and needs to close this happens on load bar on another game it doesent evan load the menu or with the godfather its just a black screen as ive said before games worked fine with the ram processor ete and i havent changed them but they deside to stop i did all the disk checks and they were fine also no viruses or spyware and i havent chenged fiels in the games eg moding to make them stop also re installed and it still did it

 

if anyone has any idea whats going on it will be helpful thanks

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  • 3 weeks later...

i re installed the game went to play it it ran but with stupid lag and graphics loading bad then a few days later it decieds not to start at all not evan load screens i click icon and it goes black no sound not evan a attempt to run im getting a bit angrey now can anyone out there help!!!! mad.gifmad.gifmad.gif

 

 

 

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