Vice City flickering HUD ...

[SomeGuy86]

Now, here's a problem you don't get to see around very often I've been kind of bored lately, and decided to put together a gaming rig, system consisted of old school hardware, mostly 2000-2001.

 

To cut it short, the game DOES load, and it's mostly playable, with occasional lag and/or slower texture loading, except for the flickering text & HUD problem. Doesn't seem to affect radar though, only HUD and subtitles, along with mission instructions text and pop-up notifications in the top-left corner.

So, I'm curious, is there a way to resolve that problem? (Or is it because of hardware limitations?) I tried to play GTA3, and it seems to be working just the same, slower but stable with absolutely no flickering at all.

 

My system specs are:

AMD Duron 750MHz

128Mb SD RAM

Matrox Millenium G450 DualHead 32Mb AGP 4x

Maxtor 30Gb Hard Drive

Pioneer DVD-ROM Drive

Windows XP SP2 (perhaps I should try with Win ME?)

[Girish]

Do you have the latest video driver installed for that AGP card?

How does the game run in Win 98 compatibility mode?

[SomeGuy86]

 

Do you have the latest video driver installed for that AGP card?

How does the game run in Win 98 compatibility mode?

Nope, I'm using the original drivers that came on a CD... Didn't have any problems so far, so I didn't see any reasons why should I want to mess around with those

 

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I tried with 98/Me compatibility mode and it didn't solve a problem, either.

 

EDIT

Think I found my problem... My Duron CPU is 50Mhz below the minimum requirement in order to run Vice normally, and 64Mb of graphic is recommended, my Matrox Millenium G450 only has 32... Could that be an issue?

 

 

GTA: Vice City System Requirements

 

Minimum System Requirements:

 

800 MHz Intel Pentium III or 800 MHz AMD Athlon or 1.2GHz Intel Celeron or 1.2 GHz AMD Duron processor

128 MB of RAM

8 speed CD / DVD drive

915 MB of free hard disk space

(+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression)

32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce" or better)

Sound Card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers Keyboard & Mouse

 

 

Recommended System Requirements

 

Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP processor 256(+) MB of RAM

16 speed CD / DVD drive

1.55 GB of free hard disk space

(+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression)

64(+) MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce 3" / "Radeon 8500" or better with DirectX Texture Compression support)

DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card with surround sound

Gamepad (USB or Joystick Port)

Keyboard & Mouse

Edited May 6, 2012 by SomeGuy86

[Spider-Vice]

It's most likely because of the graphics card, CPU wouldn't cause such an effect. Try seeing if the graphics card has some sort of control panel, even though I doubt it and fiddle with the settings.

[SomeGuy86]

 

It's most likely because of the graphics card, CPU wouldn't cause such an effect.  Try seeing if the graphics card has some sort of control panel, even though I doubt it and fiddle with the settings.

Actually it has quite a lot of settings, because this is Dual Head, supports 2 output VGA signals at the same time. But I don't think this is the case, because Dual Head feature has been disabled, I'm only using 1 monitor.

Edited May 6, 2012 by SomeGuy86