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Geek Culture / GTA San Andreas + 6800GTS = game crash

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GamerDude
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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 09:16
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Hi all, I am having another problem with GTASA, this time it involves my Gainward 6800GTS 512mb. Before I put in this card, GTA SA would play on my 6600GT 128mb at around 30fps, as long as i lowered the settings. But once while i was playing, the whole computer froze up except for GTA SA, so my character was left walking straight with about 200fps, and no sound. So I upgraded to a 6800GTS 512mb, but it seems to do much worse. This card struggles to play CoD 4 on medium (flickerring between 60fps and 10fps), which was easilly achievable on the 6600GT (35fps). When I tried to play GTA SA on minimum settings, its only about 30 seconds of renderring before the game freezes up. This is very frustrating because I am currently addicted to these two games and am not interrested in downgrading again. This card has the latest forceware, and I have Direct X from March 2009. Both cards were used on the same forceware and Direct X.

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Van B
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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 10:22
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I know what you mean, GTASA is awesome, even alongside GTA4 - I play it on my big-daddy laptop (21'' screen, with a 7600). It's pretty old but it can play GTASA perfectly smoothly, maxed out.

I'd say you should back up your save files and re-install. It might be that it crashed at a sensitive time, and has damaged some files, maybe when creating a buffer file. Everytime it tries to load a dodgy file it might not get past a certain point and simply get stuck in a retry loop, which would totally kill the frame rate.

Re-installing is your best option I think, it should be running nice and smooth on your new card.


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GamerDude
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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 14:48
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The funny thing is this XP is only 4 days old today and i've already activated it and updated it. I dont know how many more times i can use this product key so i dont want to risk it. I have cleaned the heatsink out the other day, it had enough dust to make 2-3 marbles..LOL. I'll go make sure it's not overclocked now.
-It is running at 64 Celcius, so it could be overclocked. Ill check the bios in the morning.

incase you ask for the specs;
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
2gb 400mhz ram (they are running at 266mhz, this Asus P4800-se or whatever doesent support higher speeds)
40gb HDD (its all i need, all my games are on an external HDD. 10gb free)
500W PSU

Before anyone asks why im back on a crappy pc, its because my laptop's windows partition got corrupted (my own fault that i knocked the plug out and let the battery run dry while it was restoring back to factory settings). Well, i'll be getting Vista Ultimate tomorrow, and ill install it and hope that the recovery partition still works (it is still on the HDD). This is a Toshiba and not the Acer that i used to have.

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Van B
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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 14:58
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I was thinking that just re-installing GTASA would be worth a try - it would be pretty brutal if GTASA affected your OS install.

I think that Microsoft check install keys through the genuine windows system - so if you are re-installing your OS, just use that same key every time - it's only if you had more than one install that would be a problem. Imagine if M$ limited the number of times you could reinstall - they'd have to make their next OS absolutely bullet proof; not gonna happen. At work I use the same corporate key every time, it's dead handy because I can memorize it - but there has been no issue with authentication - even though it's probably been used on more PCs than we have licences for - because we still only have X number of PC's using that license key at the same time.


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charger bandit
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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 17:17
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This must be something with your PC,I installed GTASA around 200 times cause I was modding it in the old days and crashes happened.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 18:42
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In fact, I have four installs of GTASA here - one with a graphics mod, one with multiplayer, one with wacky cars and a stock for backup.

Athlon64 2.7gHz->OC 3.9gHz, 31C, MSi 9500GT->OC 1gHz core/2gHz memory, 48C, 4Gb DDR2 667, 500Gb Seagate + 80Gb Maxtor + 40Gb Maxtor = 620Gb, XP Home
Air cooled, total cost £160
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GamerDude
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Posted: 19th Dec 2009 00:47
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This SA only crashes on the 6800GTS, it worked fine on the same pc with a 6600GT. I'll probably try reinstalling it later even though that is most likely to not be causing it.

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