Google Guru Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I can't get it working on Vista. Whenever I try to install, it just freezes at the Starting Installshield Wizard screen. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 try running it as Administrator (open the dvd and right-click on setup.exe and choose run as administrator), you can also try setting the compatibility for the setup program (right-click, choose properties, then the compaibility tab and pick the xpsp2 option there) but as far as I have seen it should work without it. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4127863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainland Marauder Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 First of all, Vista (right now) sucks big floppy donkey dick. If you want to play SA and you are on XP, forget about upgrading. Even if you don't want to play SA, you're probably better off sticking with what you've got. I recently bought a desktop and laptop with Vista included. Today I joined the rest of civilization and bought SA for PC. I just installed it on my the laptop. First of all, the laptop is a 1.5 Ghz Pentium Dualcore, 1028 MB RAM and 256 MB video card. Vista is the only way I can explain why I am seeing words on the menu flash and random numbers and letters flashing all over the place. It plays, but it's choppy, and the art-school flashes of randomness got annoying quick. I ran it with the XP compatibility settings, ran it as an administrator and all that good stuff. Nothing changed. Actually, it seemed worse when I used the backwards settings. I am going to try it on the desktop in a bit. It's a 2.0Ghz Athlon 64 rig on which running SA should be child's play. If it does it there too, something's wrong. I could need to download the downgrader, is that true? Thanks to anyone who can help. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4128149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Probably a video driver problem, what kind of video card is in the laptop? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4128204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainland Marauder Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 It's a NVIDIA GeForce. I am looking for Vista drivers but they have been hard to find. I had trouble with Simcity 4 on the laptop as well (not the desktop). So it may well be just a driver. However, the scarcity of Vista drivers is one good reason to stay away from it, at least for the time being. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4128235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 For laptop video you can usually only get drivers from the oem, buy since you have nvidia you could try some of the drivers at laptopvideo2go.com Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4128267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainland Marauder Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Well, the Athlon rig plays it just fine, with no compatibility settings. Still, on the laptop, Windows Update tells me the best driver is already installed and is working properly. I think I'll just not play SA on the laptop. It also lags a lot; Vista is a RAM-hogging monstrosity that likely saps this system's resources to where it can barely run SA. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4128892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I wouldn't pay much attention to what it says, hosting graphics drivers at Windows update has always been a bit of a scam to try and stop OpenGL being distributed to end users. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4128913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCStr8KillaNYC Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 i got vista 2 it dont work on mine either...it loads about half way and shutz offf!!!!! compete bullsh*t!!!! ATI Radeon X1300 2GB RAM Intel Core™2 Duo Processor E6400 (2MB L2 Cache,2.13GHz,1066 FSB) Vista Home Premium *worked before, but jus stopped working i think it iz a microsoft update that effected it* HELPPPPP!!!!!!!!! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4129062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 If you have the system restore working you could try using that to undo whatever happened. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4129071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxCutter Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 My Vista system crashes San Andreas from time to time, but I don't have any installation or in game problems. My advice would be removing San Andreas, checking for new drivers, and reinstalling direct x 9.0c. oh, and I'm running my San Andreas under the Windows XP compatibility mode with administrative rights enabled. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4129604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Google Guru Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 I tried administrative mode and compatibility modes and nothing works. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4129820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Pagliaro Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I got a laptop at the begining of the month with vista pre-installed (home premium ediition) and its the best computer I have ever played SA on yet. (HP-Pavillion Dv2201CA). Guess I got lucky. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/271523-vista/#findComment-4129834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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