If there's a problem during installation...

[Nevordan]

This is a pretty general and quite probably dumb question, but... say you're installing this game and some moron is jumping around the room just because (he does this a lot)... the vibrations could cause the disc to skip, right? But... would the game still install fine, or what? I guess this applies to all games, not just San Andreas... would an error message pop up if there was a problem? Or would the disc/install program somehow correct itself?

 

By the way, I got "Second Edition" (version 2.00)... I played the game for a bit... okay, 12 hours. And I have only encountered 2 issues, so far.. even with the graphics turned all the way up and the draw distance maxed out, with anti-aliasing on 3.

 

One, and I guess this is a pretty common problem, would be sound. Not always, but sometimes, like during a heavy gunfight (with cops because I like to just shoot out a car's gastank and that's a star right there, so)... the sound will get freaky. I'll hear the engine of the car, and the occassional copper yell... but when I fire my gun I hear a clicking sound (like the hammer dinging against metal?) but not actual gunshot. If I get in a car and get out again AfTER the calamity, usually the sound will return to normal.

 

Second would be one that freaked me out the most. When I tried to load a saved game, the game froze in the Load menu. The word "Load" was up at the top-left corner and that was it. The game just sat there doing nothing, and nothing would work, not Alt-Tab or Cntrl-Alt-Del, or Alt-Enter. Nothing. I had to turn off the power and do a hard reboot. Anyone ever encounter this? I loaded the game right after a Vagos member shouted "Grove Street Families Suck Ass!" And I re-loaded to try and escape another sound issue, since getting in and out of a car wasn't working. I also loaded a saved game about... 20 times during my whole session, so maybe it's a memory leak? Anyone know?

Edited August 7, 2006 by Nevordan

[GTA3Freak-2001]

 

  This is a pretty general and quite probably dumb question, but... say you're installing this game and some moron is jumping around the room just because (he does this a lot)... the vibrations could cause the disc to skip, right? But... would the game still install fine, or what? I guess this applies to all games, not just San Andreas... would an error message pop up if there was a problem? Or would the disc/install program somehow correct itself?

Yeah you'd get a error if anything caused problems, you'd have to be jumping on the actual PC to cause any real disc reading problems.

 

 

One, and I guess this is a pretty common problem, would be sound. Not always, but sometimes, like during a heavy gunfight (with cops because I like to just shoot out a car's gastank and that's a star right there, so)... the sound will get freaky. I'll hear the engine of the car, and the occassional copper yell... but when I fire my gun I hear a clicking sound (like the hammer dinging against metal?) but not actual gunshot. If I get in a car and get out again AfTER the calamity, usually the sound will return to normal.

The game is known to have sound issues with certain PC's, do you know what Sound Hardware your PC has? One thing you could try is going into the directX options and reduce the Sound Hardware down a notch. You do this by going to start>run and typing dxdiag.

 

Not sure about the save game thing, it might be related to the sound issue but I can't be sure.

[Nevordan]

Yeah you'd get a error if anything caused problems, you'd have to be jumping on the actual PC to cause any real disc reading problems.

 

The game is known to have sound issues with certain PC's, do you know what Sound Hardware your PC has? One thing you could try is going into the directX options and reduce the Sound Hardware down a notch. You do this by going to start>run and typing dxdiag.

 

Not sure about the save game thing, it might be related to the sound issue but I can't be sure.

 

Really? That's cool. I know music cds will skip occassionally when someone jumps or falls (happens a lot around here because there's lot of small children acting like wild animals). The floor isn't entirely what I'd call "1st class craftsmanship" either. Kind of shaky. But the game seems to have installed with no problems. I was thinking maybe that was the cause of the crashing and weird sounds.

 

I have a SoundBlaster Audigy LS with the latest drivers (and an NVidia GeForce 6600 with the latest drivers). After reading through here, I tried using dxdiag.exe to turn the hardware acceleration down to Standard, and that seems to have cleared up all the sound issues. I was expecting lower quality sounds and music, but it all seems identical to me, minus the sound issues. After playing the game more, I realized that the whole problem usually starts when it rains. The rain sound drowns out EVERYTHING else. Going under a bridge will cause the rain sound to go away and everything else suddenly pops back in, almost defeaning me in the process. But that all seems to have been solved now.

 

The funniest thing is, I have Second Edition, which is version 2.00, and the 1.01 patch was supposed to have resolved this issue. Obviously it hasn't, even after a .99 "improvement". A real shame.

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Yeah I've got a SoundBlaster Audigy(just one of the standard models) and even with the 1.01 version of the game whenever it rains I sometimes get the sound cutting out except for the actual rain.

 

If you want to take the chance try reinstalling because while I said that usually you'd get a error message if the game didn't install correctly its worth doing just to rule it out.