Random glitch.

[CLoWnnSkuLL]

After playing Vice City for over 30 minutes in one session a glitch occurs where cars' backs drag across the ground. The back wheel will lower and then the back of the car will drag across the ground. Once the vehicle has sped up it goes back to normal but when it slows down it happens again. The only way I've found getting rid of this is to quit the game and go back in.

 

Are there any permanent solutions? Thanks.

[Justin]

Problem 22 in the pinned bug list.

[Ring_of_Fire]

 

Problem #22:

Bugs occur when accelerating a vehicle - the car scrapes on the ground and is not steady. The problem may only arise periodically.

 

Solution: Exit Vice City fully, and load up your game again.

 

Alternatively: Direct Tommy to an area not nearby any cars or traffic. Now press the Windows key and resume gameplay. Once you enter a vehicle, the bug shouldn't appear. Save your game after doing this.

 

Alternatively: Load up a save file that doesn't have this bug or simply start a new game, and then load up the one that has it. If still no luck, keep exiting and loading your save file until the acceleration bug goes away. Remember to save when this bug is cured.

 

Alternatively: In an instance where the problem doesn't occur (e.g. after a fresh install at the beginning of the game), exit the game once you've confirmed the problem does not exist. Then browse to the data folder of your install directory (default: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto Vice City\data), and set handling.cfg and default.ide to "read only" in their file attributes (via right-click -> Properties). This seems to be a viable solution as it appears, for whatever reason, the game is writing funky values to the handling files - which holds with the theories behind the alternative solutions.

 

There's no permanent solution! The 3rd alternate will only help IF you don't press the on Windows key near vehicles that have loud engines (a fresh installation always set the files to read-only since it was installed from the CD).

 

Here's a tip: Don't press on the Windows key or alt-tab out near to traffic. What you do is to press on the [ESC] key first to get into the main menu.