Gta SA keeps crashig

[joepowell567]

Hi, I've been playing the Steam version of GTA SA for about a year now and I've done many hours of it. Recently, I had a Windows update which seemed to break the game. Now whenever I play, I get about 5 mins of playing time before it crashes. If I'm playing a save file I get a gta-sa.exe has stopped working message but if I'm starting a new game the window just closes, no error messages or anything. I have tried the following but nothing has worked so far:

 

Uninstalled and reinstalled the game

Undoing the windows update

Changing the comparability settings to Win98/ME and 768 resolution

Rolling back to a system restore point

 

At this point I'm just absolutely out of ideas. I don't know what to do next. I don't have any mods or cleo things installed. Any help is much appreciated.