GTA SA Crash after title movies

[anthonyyoung24]

Hello all,

 

I have never posted on a site like this because ive always found someone with my problem that has already fixed it. But I've been looking around for a week or so now and i can't find a forum with a solution.

 

I believe my problem is a driver issue.

 

I'm running vista home premium 32bit and have been since it came out. haven't had any real problems with it until now.

I even got many CAD programs working, that were not supposed to.

 

My OS hard disk died about two weeks ago and ive got everything back now, accept GTA SA. It was working fine before, so it shouldn't be a hardware issue.

 

Every time i start no matter what compatibility mode it's in, i get to see the rockstar and nvidia splash screens then i get the credits, then i get the final spash for GTA SA and the it crashes to the desktop.

 

My specs are as follows,

 

OS: Windows Vista 32bit (Home Premium)

M/B: ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe wireless ed

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz

RAM: 2G

Graphics Card: 2x Geforce 7600 GT 512mB

Sound: Onboard

 

If any information is needed please let me know.

 

Any help would be very muuch appreciated.

 

Cheers

 

[Girish]

Did you reinstall just the Operating System or did you change your entire hard disk?

 

If you have reinstalled the OS, check whether you have installed all the drivers properly. I too had reinstalled my OS a few weeks back after which SA stopped working. It was then that I found out that I hadn't installed the display drivers. I installed them and it worked fine.

[anthonyyoung24]

It's a fresh OS install on a new HDD. I've gotton all the latest drivers from ASUS and NVIDIA, with no luck.

 

Now I'm slowly working through and trying to find older drivers, and beta drivers for my systems to see if they will work.

 

Thanks....

[Demarest]

Did you disable one of the cores? Either way, thank you. It's refreshing to see a GOOD troubleshooting topic by somebody who's willing to put forth the effort and take the time to document it

[Mindez]

 

Did you disable one of the cores? Either way, thank you. It's refreshing to see a GOOD troubleshooting topic by somebody who's willing to put forth the effort and take the time to document it

That's probably not why, since I have simular spec's;

 

OS: Windows Vista 32bit (Ultimate)

M/B: Not sure

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.40GHz

RAM: 2GB

Graphics Card: Radeon X850 Series

Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 5.1

 

and the same problem....

 

I remember solving this earlier but I forgot how

 

 

Edit:

I got it working by re-installing, full-install (With all sound files). Hope this helps!

Edited July 14, 2007 by Mindez

[anthonyyoung24]

I have re-installed a few times now, even put it into the default directory which i don't do very often.

 

And yes I've come across multi-core problems before, so I tried changing the affinity around, with no luck.

 

Thanks for your help so far, it's much appreciated.

 

FYI, I've been trying so many different drivers, at the moment I'm running the original BETA drivers that came out with Vista, less features and still no luck.

 

Just a quick question. Has anyone come across with anti-spy/virus software affecting GTA-SA? pre this problem I wasn't running anything, just had some backups of my data, and now I'm giving avast a go. It's shouldn't affect it, but has anyone had problems using these kinds of protection programs.

[Vertman]

Maybe it is vista.

[Vinnie]

Maybe it is vista.

Never reply with such an incorrect post. I don't like Vista, I don't use Vista, but I don't blame Vista. If there's any problem ever it's most likely a driver problem or hardware problem if other people have managed to get this game to run on Vista. So do some research before you post comments like that.

[anthonyyoung24]

Well thanks for trying.

 

I've managed to get it to work myself.

 

It turned out to be an installation problem.

The way i got it to work wasn't re-installing, I copied the game files off an old pc backup disk and put them ontop of my installed files and now its working with no problems.

 

Cheers