Baity Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Hello, I just registered to post this, so don't be too harsh on me. I installed San Andreas on my PC, and it works fine. I installed it on my laptop, it installs fine, but after the credits, it shows the picture of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and then crashes. I have Windows XP with SP2, An SiS M661MX GFX card with 64 mb memory(I'm thinking this is the problem here) An Intel Celeron processor with 1.50 GHz, And 448 mb of RAM. Also, I was able to run HL2 on this laptop with minor crashes...If anyone could help, that would be great...Oh yeah, Vice City runs fine on this setup, no worries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 I'm really sorry to double post, but I need some help on this. Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 i have the exactly the same problem i dunno wat 2 do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlasticTV Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 i have the exact same problem. tried everything. really distressing... Running on: XP SP2 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz 768MB of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 It's really annoying, isn't it? There's no error message, so you don't know what's wrong. I've tried everything. I've updated my sound drivers, my video drivers, lowered my sound acceleration, ran in Windows 98/ME edition, etc. Sorry, I just find it annoying when I see other posts with 20 replies in one day in the same forum, yet I had to lower my standards and double-post just to get some attention. Oh well. I just want to play this magnificent game on my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Anzeas Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I have Windows XP with SP2,An SiS M661MX GFX card with 64 mb memory(I'm thinking this is the problem here) An Intel Celeron processor with 1.50 GHz, And 448 mb of RAM. Normally laptops aren't suited for games due to their power management schemes.... Also ur graphics card doesn't impress me much...... Why dont u try playing San Andreas while laptop is plugged in and not on battery...... It might work out for u.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 Yeah, I know my graphics card is sh*t, but hey, it could run Half-Life 2 on all medium settings. I don't know, I'll try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 *Bump* It still happens if I unplug the battery. Thanks for trying, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike0 Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I think the 1.01 patch fixes this: nomorehotcoffee Download the patch from that site and install. Unless you have v2.00. Then you can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) I have v1.00, so I'll try Thanks alot mate. EDIT: It didn't work, BUT it said in the FAQ that I need Administative Priveliges. I'm on a laptop with three users...How can I find out if I'm an admin? Edited December 18, 2006 by Baity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts. In here it will say whether a user is a limited user or an administrator under their username. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 Nope, it says that my account is an administrator. And I tried it on my dad's and it did the same thing. I don't know, I feel like giving up, but I want San Andreas on the go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 There should be something you can do, are there newer drivers for anything in the system? I got San Andreas to run on a laptop with a Celeron M 1.3 GHz with 256 MB of RAM and 64 MB of that taken for the Intel 900 graphics thing. It was too slow to play but it didn't crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 I've updated drivers for sound and graphics, but nothing. Thanks for your help anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight705 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 bump to the top since i have the same problem with my newly purchased and bought GTA:SA (v2.0) it just crashes to desktop after the credits roll and it is doing that loading screen shot where it looks like the box cover. my specs WIN XP Pro SP2 2.0 GB Ram EVGA Geforce 7800GT 256mb AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Anzeas Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Try the no-intro fix for San Andreas.. It is available here Also try using Windows compatibilty mode..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaktieboy Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 hi i just got here.. and i have the exact same problem i read the whole topic and also found this on gamecopyworld: http://m0003.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_gt...dreas%20v1.0%20[ALL]%20Crash%20Fix%20Patch but nothing worked :S my computer: Intel® Celeron® CPU 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz, 448 MB of RAM 64 MB graphics card (on board) 16 times DVD-rom Speed (52 CD-Rom speed) DirectX 9.0c greetzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 I think your graphics card has to be at least 128mb plus you have to have at least directx9 for it to run smoothly, if you don't have directx9, you can download it from the installation disc. hope this helps. this is according to the book that comes with the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaktieboy Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 (edited) nah im at a friends place.. he has the same pc as me.. and it works on his pc :S (also 64 mb gfx and directx 9.0 c) and i have directx 9.0 c Edited January 6, 2007 by superaktieboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgand Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I keep getting the same problem. It loads fine, goes through the intro and then crashes back to the desktop with an error message. Windows XP, SP2 GeForce 6600 GT AGP 128 MB 512 MB RAM Pentium IV 2.61 GHz I've tried switching compatibility modes, I've checked that all of my drivers are up to date, I've tried lowering my audio acceleration, but nothing works. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guioliveira00 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 try it: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=265370 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baity Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 Anyone who has the problem that I did, try what he said. It worked great for me! Bit FPS laggy, but meh, who cares? I lowered my settings(Visual FX quality low, no draw distance) and it's alright. Thanks heaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgand Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Tried the 3DAnalyzer fix and it didn't work for me. Then again, I didn't really expect it to as I'm not using an on-board video card and it fits well within the requirements. For me the worst part of this (ok, second-worst after not being able to play the damn game) is that I have no idea what's causing it so I don't really know what I can try to do to fix it. Even analyzing the output from the crash hasn't really been able to help much. It really speaks poorly of Rockstar and Take-Two that there are this many people with such obvious problems of the exact same nature with their product and yet they aren't addressing it, haven't patched it aside from the Hot Coffee fiasco (well, yes, they introduced some bugfixes then as well, but let's not kid ourselves as to why the patch came out at all), and seem to be totally indifferent to our suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guioliveira00 Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Well Belgand, I don't know how to fix your problem, but you tried delete gta_sa.set file? the win98 compatibility, and if you have windowblinds installed, try uninstall it, see more details and fixes in the Googlesta topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaktieboy Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 solved the problem.. i bough a new graphics card that support pixel shading 3.0 and it worked fine (GeForce 6200) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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