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The 9th Sage
03-11-2009, 03:07 AM
I just recently realized I have a copy of this game I purchased years ago and have been playing it. I have to ask though...I'm having a weird problem. I'm sure someone here has played it, but does it dump to the desktop often for you? I think it's the game (I did a lot to try and narrow down the problem). Every once in a while it dumps me to the desktop, no error, nothing.

It's quite annoying, as you might expect.

*edit*
Sigh...yes I'm playing on a computer. Windows XP SP3.
Reaper man
03-11-2009, 04:26 AM
If my copy dumped me to the desktop, I'd wonder what the fuck is wrong with my PS2. ;p
Bodomi
03-11-2009, 05:27 PM
I haven't experienced any problems like that myself.
On Win XP SP3 as well.

My game is warez'd though.
The 9th Sage
03-11-2009, 06:27 PM
Hm...that's weird. I did see at least a report or two of this on the internet. I guess I'll play other games for now and make sure it's the game itself causing this. :P
The 9th Sage
03-11-2009, 08:13 PM
Yeah, I'll try it again sometime. I did 'install' a hi-res texture pack...I don't remember if it happened or not before that, so I'll have to try it sometime without since I didn't play for very long before installing it (probably should have tried this first). I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the game...I just played Bioshock for more than an hour with no problems (runs great at 1680x1050 I might add...I love my new computer :bigthumbup:).
snesmaster40
03-14-2009, 12:19 AM
I am running XP SP2 and San Andreas works just fine. I think you need to recompile those img files with a program called imgtool.

Judging from that Bioshock comment I guess you could get this (http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=314556)

Also check out CLEO mods, because they're really awesome (they don't edit the main.scm file)
The 9th Sage
03-14-2009, 01:39 AM
Yeah, I have a few CLEO mods. Had to dial it back though as a couple of them to do with cars were causing a strange crash at the start of one of the missions. Come to think of it though, I should try this without the nocd crack since I have the disc here. I need to try and iron out the problems I'm having with this game and really find out what the issue is.

Also, that mod looks interesting...I looked through a bunch of mods but that is one I didn't see, so thanks for the link.

*edit*
Oh yeah, and actually the texture pack installs itself. It rebuilds the archives with it's own images, so it does all that stuff on it's own which makes it way easier.
The 9th Sage
03-14-2009, 04:01 AM
On second thought, that mod makes some stuff shiny and reflective in a way that is unnatural. :P
snesmaster40
03-14-2009, 01:03 PM
I'm using a nocd crack and the game works fine. I had to recompile the archives though for some mod because the author said that the installer caused some problem or something which led to crashing.
The 9th Sage
03-16-2009, 04:22 AM
Hm...I'll have to try it and see if that helps.
Haoie
03-23-2009, 03:50 AM
Ha, you think that's bad, it won't even run on mine without using 3DAnalyse. Something about the GFX card or something.

Which also no longer works anymore. So no more playing for me.
The 9th Sage
03-23-2009, 05:05 AM
3D Analyze...never knew such a thing existed. O_O That's pretty interesting.
Reaper man
03-23-2009, 08:06 AM
I gave it a try... disabling some features makes a few games... well, interesting, haha.
The 9th Sage
03-23-2009, 04:24 PM
I gave it a try... disabling some features makes a few games... well, interesting, haha.

Heh, like disabling certain effects, you mean?
Reaper man
03-23-2009, 07:11 PM
I played unreal tournament 3 with the small texture limit. Shit looked like it was from tron. XD
Haoie
04-01-2009, 04:42 AM
Google 3Danalyse and San Andreas if you want more info.

I still can't get it working. Oh well.
meman887
05-06-2009, 02:59 AM
Thought I'd pass on this suggestion (yeah bumping an old thread but anyway), if your running with problems with San Andreas is to run it in compatibility mode in Vista by selecting Windows 98/Me.

The above suggestion is what I have gathered, but haven't tried it as of yet, but if the above doesn't work then you could try this other suggestion below.

Get one of these Set Affinity applications from here (http://edgemeal.110mb.com/index.htm) and set San Andreas to Core 0 only.
The 9th Sage
05-06-2009, 04:09 AM
Actually, I have XP...I should try limiting it to one core though, hadn't though about that. It's surely possible that it doesn't like more than one core.
meman887
05-07-2009, 12:35 AM
Actually, I have XP...I should try limiting it to one core though, hadn't though about that. It's surely possible that it doesn't like more than one core.

Well there are other games that have similar problems running on Dual/Quad core namely NFS series from Most Wanted onwards that have issues when running on those type of processors until the Affinity is set to core 0, then ends up fixing the problem.

Anyway post back and let me know if it worked or didn't for you.
The 9th Sage
05-07-2009, 03:49 AM
Well there are other games that have similar problems running on Dual/Quad core namely NFS series from Most Wanted onwards that have issues when running on those type of processors until the Affinity is set to core 0, then ends up fixing the problem.

Anyway post back and let me know if it worked or didn't for you.

I'll have to reinstall it. lol May be a while before I test it in that case, but I'll eventually test it.