ChazFox Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 (edited) Hi there, I decided I'd download GTA1 from the Rockstar Website (because I love the classics ) and so I installed and ran it. The menu works perfectly fine, but once I'm on the streets and the guy says "Graaaand Theft Auto!" I get something a little like this: Anything doing? My system specs are: 2GB Ram AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (I already know Thief Deadly Shadows has multicore issues, perhaps it's this?) NVidia Geforce 8600 512MB Windows XP SP2. If I forgot any other details just feel free to shoot me Thanks again for your help guys! UPDATE: Don't bother telling me to make sure I have the latest drivers and such like either. I just did that now after reading a similar problem, and now my problem's gotten worse. GTA won't even run now, I just get Windows' very unhelpful "GTA Has caused an error and must shut down, sucks to be you" window. Any ideas for this? Edited January 6, 2008 by ChazFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sektor Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 GTA might be corrupting your player_a.dat after the first run (I don't know what causes this, it hasn't happened to me). That's the high score and settings file. You can try reinstalling the game and making a copy of player_a.dat before you run GTA or download this version: GTA1_player_a.dat.zip and extract to gta\gtadata. Unfortunately it will become corrupt each time you run GTA, so you have to keep restoring it. This may only be a problem with the free version of GTA, you may have better luck with a no cd (cracked) version of the exe. I would try changing resolution for the video problem, push F11 after the game starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ja750 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Try turning your hardware acceleration down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blayney Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 This is the exact problem I have 1GB RAM AMD Sempron 3200+ Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT XP SP2 Don't think it's a multicore issue, cos I've got same problem. Am trying different things, hopefully will get results soon edit - also adjusted the resolution through every single one with no change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ja750 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Right click desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot: Apply > ok. Adjust the slider to any particular setting if this one don't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FulVal85 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 this is a knowed problem of all geforce 8 series on windows xp. on vista it works fine. use this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=115XM8CX extract archive on gta1 folder and open file .exe all times when you join gta1 (before of gta1) this fix file player_a.dat and all musics. for bug of graphics i think that with all geforce 8 series it can't be fix... on xp. on vista it works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filipetolhuizen Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Over a year and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Over a year and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore. Well... there are probably more serious bugs to fix than those in old games that hardly anyone with GF8 plays these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horror Is Alive Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Over a year and this bug still hasn't been fixed. Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore. Well... there are probably more serious bugs to fix than those in old games that hardly anyone with GF8 plays these days. So damn true. Sad, really. But true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greer55 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Nvidia doesn't care about their customers anymore. Nvidia doesn't care particularly about updating their mobility drivers. Nvidia doesn't care what you or anyone else thinks of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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