GTA: San Andreas

The 9th Sage · 03-11-2009, 02:07 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, 03:26 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, 04:27 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, 05:27 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, 07:13 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

).

snesmaster40 · 03-13-2009, 11:19 PM

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

Also check out CLEO mods, because they're really awesome (they don't edit the main.scm file)

The 9th Sage · 03-14-2009, 12:39 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, 03:01 AM

On second thought, that mod makes some stuff shiny and reflective in a way that is unnatural. :P

snesmaster40 · 03-14-2009, 12:03 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, 03:22 AM

Hm...I'll have to try it and see if that helps.