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"Fatal Error" before playing


whatiwawa
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Hey guys.

I don't know if this happens to alot of people but I just bought GTA 4 for the PC.

I installed everything, made a "social" username, and got it all good.

But when I clicked on the shortcut to the game program the following happens.

-It goes into the game "user is subject to licence... (blady blady blah)"

-Then the window closes and a big "FATAL ERROR" screen pops up.

-It reads "GTA IV FTAL ERROR: Unable to create depth render target- Please re-install DirectX and/or install the latest video card driver."

-Followed by the "send or don't send error report"

 

So I did a little research. I went and googled the DirectX and I installed "DirectX10" onto my hard drive.

Not much of a difference happened.

Then I went to the Video card. Being a novice at computer mechanics, I had no idea, but I found out that the minimum requirements were:

Video Card: 256MB NVidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

I have a Windows XPS M170, is all I really know.

 

So I really don't know what to do! Please help so I can get playing!

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put up your specs and sytem info we will try to help hinder and flame .. i mean help biggrin.gif

 

or look for error here link

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put up your specs and sytem info we will try to help hinder and flame .. i mean help biggrin.gif

 

or look for error here link

1. How do we put up specs? biggrin.gif

2. All I know about the problem was listed above.

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Is there a window I can open up that will tell me this? Sorry, I don't know much about computers.

Also I found the error:

TEXP70

Unable to create depth render target - Please re-install DirectX and/or install the latest video card driver.

 

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got start menu and then in the search bar at bottom type dxdiag

 

 

let us know what ya get ...

need cpu

ram

video card

and direct x version number

should be a good start

 

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I'm putting the search engine on dxdiag for folders and I got a bunch of Dxdiag files. Which one do I look at?

 

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dxdiag.exe

run it and see what it says prob have to copy onto forum unless ya know how to put up pics

 

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I'll be honest your laptop is going to struggle to run this game at all.

 

Your pc

XPS M170

Intel Pentium M 780 / 2.13 GHz

1 GB Ram(memory)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

 

 

GTAIV Minimum Hardware Requirements:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4Ghz

Memory: 1.5GB

Free Hard Drive Space: 16GB

Video Card: 256MB NVidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

DirectX 9 compatible Stereo Sound Card

 

This tells me your Graphics card, Ram and chip are no good for this game.

 

Just from your specs I would really advise you take the game back to the shop or sell it to someone (no offence)

More ram and a another graphics card would help but that processer chip aint gonna cut it.

If you did manage to run the game it will run like complete crap, just look at threads with high spec pc's struggling to run this game.

You cant download DX10 it comes with windows vista only.

Cheers.

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damn i didnt know he was running laptop or may have saved him alot of trouble . i dont know the machine but the specs are low as nicko666 says maybe isnt worth the hassle for you ...

 

if you do continue to try let us know the results as would be intrested to see . good luck!

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Hey guys.

I don't know if this happens to alot of people but I just bought GTA 4 for the PC.

I installed everything, made a "social" username, and got it all good.

But when I clicked on the shortcut to the game program the following happens.

-It goes into the game "user is subject to licence... (blady blady blah)"

-Then the window closes and a big "FATAL ERROR" screen pops up.

-It reads "GTA IV FTAL ERROR: Unable to create depth render target- Please re-install DirectX and/or install the latest video card driver."

-Followed by the "send or don't send error report"

 

So I did a little research. I went and googled the DirectX and I installed "DirectX10" onto my hard drive.

Not much of a difference happened.

Then I went to the Video card. Being a novice at computer mechanics, I had no idea, but I found out that the minimum requirements were:

Video Card: 256MB NVidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

I have a Windows XPS M170, is all I really know.

 

So I really don't know what to do! Please help so I can get playing!

Sorry you didn't put DX10 on your computer. Couldn't have. Vista and 8xxx + series video cards ONLY

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