GTA IV Benchmark crashes

[ATHMystikal]

OK I reinstalled my OS to Win 7.

The installed GTA IV and then patch 1.0.3

 

I game starts fine and I could see the main menu. Then I tried to start the bench mark tool. But after showing some characters, a dark screen shows up saying 'Starting...' then suddenly audio frezzes(it repeats the last second audio again and agin) and game crashes.

 

Then I tried to play the game. sh*t thats not working either!.

 

I tried reinstalling but no use.

 

I never tried to play this game on Windows7 before. But I played it in Win XP on the same system w/o much trouble.

 

So what should I do. Is there some fix????

 

 

-EDIT-

 

Forgot to tell u something. Whenever I install GTA IV, there is no GTAIV.exe !. I noticed this just now. It apperas only after I apply 1.0.3 patch. But the installer doesn't indicated anything wrong. Maybe my DISC got corrupted. But again, I checked most of the archives, movies,...with other tools, they are fine.

Edited August 10, 2010 by ATHMystikal

[ATHMystikal]

THANK GOD I FIXED IT

 

After a lot of trial and error, I finally got GTA IV running.

 

The problem was a corrupted Disc-1. But the GTA installer never gave any error messages.

 

Heres how I fixed it.

 

1. Extracted files from Disc-1 using ISO buster.

2. Created new .iso image using PowerISO.

3. Mounted it then installed GTA. (but didn't install RGSC)

4. Applied 1.0.7.0 patch

5. Played it.