forgottensouls Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Hi, I'm marginally new here, but I seem to have a major issue with the PC version of GTA San andreas. My specs are as follows Windows 7 32 Bit AMD Athlon 3000+ XP 2.2 GHz ATI Radeon HD 3450 1 GB Ram My problem is that i will randomly get crashes whilst playing for a random amount of time. The screen turns black, no display. I had a Nvidia 6600GT prior to this a few years back run no problem, but this ATI card just refused to play it the same way. I tried the search feature and found nothing about my card and black screens that seemed to help my issue. Can anyone recommend any fixes? And as a side note I'm running Catalyst Control Center 10.9 hotfix(because it's an AGP system.) Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AH64Hunter Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Hi, I'm marginally new here, but I seem to have a major issue with the PC version of GTA San andreas. My specs are as follows Windows 7 32 Bit AMD Athlon 3000+ XP 2.2 GHz ATI Radeon HD 3450 1 GB Ram My problem is that i will randomly get crashes whilst playing for a random amount of time. The screen turns black, no display. I had a Nvidia 6600GT prior to this a few years back run no problem, but this ATI card just refused to play it the same way. I tried the search feature and found nothing about my card and black screens that seemed to help my issue. Can anyone recommend any fixes? And as a side note I'm running Catalyst Control Center 10.9 hotfix(because it's an AGP system.) Did you download it or install a mod. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgottensouls Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 Thanks for the quick reply. The game is a legit genuine disc without any mods installed. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AH64Hunter Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Thanks for the quick reply. The game is a legit genuine disc without any mods installed. Can you tell me if you are running other programs or if it's v1.0 or v2.0. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgottensouls Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 The version is 1.0. I normally use SA to play SAMP so i can't upgrade it, but i havent installed it because, even without SAMP installed, it just gives me black screens. I'm almost positive this is a driver issue with ATI. Nvidia never gave me issues with SA, but when my 6600GT died, ATI was my only choice as they were the only ones with good AGP cards. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AH64Hunter Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Was the driver updated. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgottensouls Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 Yeah I'm using the latest display drivers and CCC 10.9. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AH64Hunter Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Yeah I'm using the latest display drivers and CCC 10.9. Well i don't know then maybe lil weasel can help you. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgottensouls Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 Oh, well thanks anyways. Should I just PM him about my issue? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060143529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Have you checked for over-heating? In case this is a driver related issue, the only way to find out will be to rollback to an older driver version. This is a trial and error method, so you might have to try quite a few driver versions before you find one that doesn't give you any issues. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060144031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgottensouls Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 It's definitely not overheating. The 6600GT i had went well over 80C at times. This GPU I have now almost never goes over 42C. One thing I did try though was to overclock my card. I figured it was ATI Powerplay lowering my clock speeds, thus causing an effective crash of the drivers. I just upped them 40MHz each and was able to play San Andreas for an hour at least. no black screens so far. Thanks for your guys' help. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060144454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 One thing I did try though was to overclock my card. I figured it was ATI Powerplay lowering my clock speeds, thus causing an effective crash of the drivers. I just upped them 40MHz each and was able to play San Andreas for an hour at least. no black screens so far. Thanks for your guys' help. That's an interesting solution. Let us know if it solves your problem for good, so we can start recommending it to others too who are having the same problem as you. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060144869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgottensouls Posted September 30, 2010 Author Share Posted September 30, 2010 Well just a quick update on the situation. I was able to play GTA SA today for at least 3 hours to test it out. No problems whatsoever for me in terms of freezing with the black screen after random times. Although I installed SAMP to further test the theory, it caused my PC to freeze and have a black screen after about an hour. But I can more than likely say that it was probably the cause of the server I was playing on . So yeah, i would definitely recommend others who were having Black screens after random amounts of time(mainly with ATI) to overclock their cards slightly. It seems to remedy the situation a lot, at least for me. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/460098-black-screen-after-random-amounts-of-time/#findComment-1060144879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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