ajb123644 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Are any of you playing GTA San Andreas on Windows Vista? I have windows vista but have not installed GTA San Andreas onto my computer yet, I was wondering if anybody our there had and what they thought of it on the new operating system! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScribbleGirl Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Are any of you playing GTA San Andreas on Windows Vista? I have windows vista but have not installed GTA San Andreas onto my computer yet, I was wondering if anybody our there had and what they thought of it on the new operating system! I don't think gta sa will work on Vista. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4162249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted April 9, 2007 Author Share Posted April 9, 2007 Are any of you playing GTA San Andreas on Windows Vista? I have windows vista but have not installed GTA San Andreas onto my computer yet, I was wondering if anybody our there had and what they thought of it on the new operating system! I don't think gta sa will work on Vista. Ok, you may be right but have you actually tried it? I went onto a gaming website where they have tried it on Vista and it plays perfectly fine, they said they had no problems with the game! Whooo, go GTA! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4162562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScribbleGirl Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Are any of you playing GTA San Andreas on Windows Vista? I have windows vista but have not installed GTA San Andreas onto my computer yet, I was wondering if anybody our there had and what they thought of it on the new operating system! I don't think gta sa will work on Vista. Ok, you may be right but have you actually tried it? I went onto a gaming website where they have tried it on Vista and it plays perfectly fine, they said they had no problems with the game! Whooo, go GTA! No, I have tried Vista I don't like it. Remember how old San Andreas game is it was made in 2005 for pc and obvisouly the only operating system that will work with SA is Windows XP. I still have XP it's still good. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4162629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Windows 98 or XP compatibility mode should help, but I've still heard bad things about the Vista - SA combination. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4163325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 Windows 98 or XP compatibility mode should help, but I've still heard bad things about the Vista - SA combination. I suppose so, but one gaming site has said that they have already tried San Andreas and they said it works really well, I dont think that there will be any problems with i once I have out it onto Vista. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4164357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillies Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 It should be the same as on windows xp unless your drivers aren't working properly yet or your computer sucks. Limited user accounts could have problems due to the security control thing, but most of the time it is best to use an admin account for anything related to games anyway. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4164362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJkWhoSaysNi Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 it works on Vista but the refresh rate is stuck at 60hz whatever you try Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4165761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeyboy Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Yesterday I brought a copy of SA for my PC which has Vista. It says on the box it runs on 2000 / XP / Vista. I can report that it runs pefectly without and problems. I also didn't touch the compatibility mode in the properties of the .exe either. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4167991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 it works on Vista but the refresh rate is stuck at 60hz whatever you try Is your computer very old, because I heard something about Vista running games slower than XP. In the long run this should be sorted out, but I just wondered whether you could confirm this? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4170490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBECDUDE Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 You shouldn't have any problems playing this or most other late titles on Vista unless you need hardware upgrades. Vista will use more resources in some cases so RAM, CPU, GPU, and even the Motherboard needs to be up to par. I run a custom Laptop (Vista OS) with GTA:SA, BF2, and HL2 all installed and don't even lag. AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-64 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 NVIDIA GeForce GO 7600 256MB 60GB 7200RPM SATA150 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4182126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnzooger Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Windows 98 or XP compatibility mode should help, but I've still heard bad things about the Vista - SA combination. Win 98 compatibility mode will absolutly not work. SA is for win 2k or xp, not 98. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4182586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaudKarma Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) Well, I'm *trying* to run GTA:SA under Vista, but not having much luck. My machine is about a year old. When I ran SA under Windows XP SP2, it ran smooth as silk. I upgraded to WinXP 64 bit. SA got unhappy, and started running very, very choppy. Put a couple of explosions on the screen, and you could bog down to 1 frame every 2 or 3 seconds. I futzed with the video settings and stuff, but nothing worked. Oh well... I needed to do other things anyway. Upgraded again last week to Vista Ultimate. Figured I'd give SA a try again. It installs without any problems. However, when I try to run the game I get a most curious error message: "Please remove disc from current CD/DVD drive and insert the original disc in another drive ?:." Formatted just like that, with the question mark at the end and everything. Nevermind I only have one DVD drive, or that I just ran the install program off that same drive. Anyway, I've messed around with reinstalling and adminstrator and emulation without any luck, so I'm going to check here. Wish me luck. UPDATE - Turns out that was an error code from SecurROM. With that as a clue I did some hardware jiggling and got SA running and happy again. Looks like the frame rates are back to normal, too. Edited April 15, 2007 by BaudKarma Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4182848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 Well, I'm *trying* to run GTA:SA under Vista, but not having much luck. My machine is about a year old. When I ran SA under Windows XP SP2, it ran smooth as silk. I upgraded to WinXP 64 bit. SA got unhappy, and started running very, very choppy. Put a couple of explosions on the screen, and you could bog down to 1 frame every 2 or 3 seconds. I futzed with the video settings and stuff, but nothing worked. Oh well... I needed to do other things anyway. Upgraded again last week to Vista Ultimate. Figured I'd give SA a try again. It installs without any problems. However, when I try to run the game I get a most curious error message: "Please remove disc from current CD/DVD drive and insert the original disc in another drive ?:." Formatted just like that, with the question mark at the end and everything. Nevermind I only have one DVD drive, or that I just ran the install program off that same drive. Anyway, I've messed around with reinstalling and adminstrator and emulation without any luck, so I'm going to check here. Wish me luck. UPDATE - Turns out that was an error code from SecurROM. With that as a clue I did some hardware jiggling and got SA running and happy again. Looks like the frame rates are back to normal, too. Cool maybe you need to upgrade some of your components inside the computer if it lagging too much that the only thing I can think of! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4185452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 You shouldn't have any problems playing this or most other late titles on Vista unless you need hardware upgrades. Vista will use more resources in some cases so RAM, CPU, GPU, and even the Motherboard needs to be up to par. I run a custom Laptop (Vista OS) with GTA:SA, BF2, and HL2 all installed and don't even lag. AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-64 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 NVIDIA GeForce GO 7600 256MB 60GB 7200RPM SATA150 Nice specs mate. Am running on Intel Core Duo, 2GB of RAM, NVIDIA Geforce 7950 GX2and have 500GB hard drive! LOL along with Vista Business. Everything is running so smoothly and is a lot better than XP, only problem is th drivers on everything are not all updated! LOL! But yeah I like Vista and there are/have been no major issues with it yet. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4185457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
H3llr4izer Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Yeah, I'm playing GTA: San Andreas on Vista, and I'm gonna play it right now! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4211954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted April 29, 2007 Author Share Posted April 29, 2007 Yeah, I'm playing GTA: San Andreas on Vista, and I'm gonna play it right now! LOL! Cool, does it run just as well on vista as it does on xp? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4212031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
H3llr4izer Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Yeah, I'm playing GTA: San Andreas on Vista, and I'm gonna play it right now! LOL! Cool, does it run just as well on vista as it does on xp? Well, I haven't tried GTA: San Andreas on windows XP, i think it is pretty same Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4215436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Yeah, I'm playing GTA: San Andreas on Vista, and I'm gonna play it right now! LOL! Cool, does it run just as well on vista as it does on xp? Well, I haven't tried GTA: San Andreas on windows XP, i think it is pretty same Cool, thanks man! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4218847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlirap Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Yeah, I'm playing GTA: San Andreas on Vista, and I'm gonna play it right now! LOL! Cool, does it run just as well on vista as it does on xp? Well, I haven't tried GTA: San Andreas on windows XP, i think it is pretty same Cool, thanks man! thanks friend Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4220391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil weasel Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 My XP computer updated it's Video Drivers. Since then almost everything except cutscenes run slow. CJ is cut to pieces before he can turn around. bought a new computer with Vista: Boy do I dislike it. regarding SA. I have 'sheets' of alphabet as background to the dagger selector on the menues. The letters have sparkling picels.some letters not even visible. Triangular outlines on scenes. and game runs poorly. re vista, I have other games which I frequently copy the save files into other folders for replay. Took forever to find the save files, because Vista dosen't want the user to access 'valuable' files for deletiion.., I consider Vista as definately User UNfriendly to experienced users . Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4220475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted May 5, 2007 Author Share Posted May 5, 2007 My XP computer updated it's Video Drivers. Since then almost everything except cutscenes run slow. CJ is cut to pieces before he can turn around. bought a new computer with Vista: Boy do I dislike it. regarding SA. I have 'sheets' of alphabet as background to the dagger selector on the menues. The letters have sparkling picels.some letters not even visible. Triangular outlines on scenes. and game runs poorly. re vista, I have other games which I frequently copy the save files into other folders for replay. Took forever to find the save files, because Vista dosen't want the user to access 'valuable' files for deletiion.., I consider Vista as definately User UNfriendly to experienced users . Ok... I dont know whnat has happened with your copy of San Andreas but it doesnt sound good. Hopefully it wont happen to everyones copy when and if they get Vista! Um yeah I see your point, Vista is extremely sensitive with the idea of security. It is in fact rather good, but I suppose for what you are trying to do it can be really annoying. I think that I will have to agree with you there, but I dont go into folders in prgramme files that often. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4221681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
H3llr4izer Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Yeah, I'm playing GTA: San Andreas on Vista, and I'm gonna play it right now! LOL! Cool, does it run just as well on vista as it does on xp? Well, I haven't tried GTA: San Andreas on windows XP, i think it is pretty same Cool, thanks man! thanks friend Ahh, you're welcome. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4231944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werven Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Last time I checked v.2 ran on vista Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4232971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted May 12, 2007 Author Share Posted May 12, 2007 Last time I checked v.2 ran on vista Cool. Hopefully the frames should be sorted out for Vista in a few months time... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4233133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted May 24, 2007 Author Share Posted May 24, 2007 Thanks to all of the people who have written in this topic. Remeber that if there are people out there who are playing San Andreas on Vista then put your mark here and tell us what you think of it! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4254303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vykis Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 I'm playing GTA:SA on Vista too. It works perfect and I didn't set Compactibility Mode to XP. I get some lag when I fly through the clouds but it's OK. And on XP I could play on 1280x1024 with low fx quality, but on Vista I can play on 1024x768 with low FX quality, but I don't see much difference. But I have one problem wih SA-MP. I downloaded access violation fix, but still when I exit SA-MP I get lot of access violation errors. But I can stop them easily. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4258441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb123644 Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 I'm playing GTA:SA on Vista too. It works perfect and I didn't set Compactibility Mode to XP. I get some lag when I fly through the clouds but it's OK. And on XP I could play on 1280x1024 with low fx quality, but on Vista I can play on 1024x768 with low FX quality, but I don't see much difference. But I have one problem wih SA-MP. I downloaded access violation fix, but still when I exit SA-MP I get lot of access violation errors. But I can stop them easily. What do the violation errors do? And how do you stop them? I think that Microsoft will fix the lag issues on Vista in the near future but it all seems to be well and good. Do you run the game in administrator mode? That might solve the problem. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4261297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodz Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 (edited) yea i got the same problem as lil weasel i got a new copy of san andreas last week and my Laptop is a winows vista prenium the san andreas has alphats in the background sluggish reactions and gameplay and keep fluttering and flashing :angry:NOT Only that but the game will reguralry stop working u Edited June 1, 2007 by Bloodz Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4269399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vykis Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 (edited) What do the violation errors do? And how do you stop them?I think that Microsoft will fix the lag issues on Vista in the near future but it all seems to be well and good. Do you run the game in administrator mode? That might solve the problem. I don't know what those errors do. I stop them with task manager. I find sa-mp.exe process and press End Process. I tried to run the game in Administrator mode, but it didn't help. Edited June 1, 2007 by vykis Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/273549-san-andreas-on-windows-vista/#findComment-4270100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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