Hi folks!
 

Well, a friend of mine also experienced gamefreezes after a few minutes of running this game.

The Game stops, but radio still keeps playing. But: Just the running game died and you couldn´t switch back to desktop or pop the taskmanager to front. The System itself still stays running and accessable - via lan the machine itself could be used - we even could start another instance of the game via lan at the other system :-D


As I don´t own the game by myself, I couldn´t examine the problem deep enough, but the simple update of his gfx-drivers from 66.xx to the latest 71.xx-detonator-series (hell, don´t remember how they gonna call ´em today) seems to fix his issues.

His Machine:
Athlon 3000+
WinXP Pro SP2
NVidia GF4600 Ti
European Multi-Language GTA-SA
NoDVD-Fix All Languages

Sorry if I repeat already mentioned things.

GRx

Well my 'every 15-20 minutes my game crashes' - problem stopped when I disabled several options in the pizza-trainer ;) Since I'm only usin unlimited health, unlimited ammo and stop mission time, it runs fine.

i found out due reading a lot of forums posts on gtaforums.com that Realtek Drivers are the Problem (nforce 4 ac97 on board). I installed latest version hoping that this will fix it. BUT: it was worse. Game did not crash after 15min. it crashed after 1min. So I took my mainboard driver disk and installed A3.66 Version of Realtek Drivers (removed the newer one before).

Worked like it did after I bought my new pc. So Updating drivers is not the best thing to do everytime :)

This cost me about 5hours of play time.

Hehe, guys,..i have a worked solution for all out there...have found it and cracked it self :D

The Crashfxi dont work for me, have edited the reg so that it runs on my machine, but nothing ^^

So i have hexedthe exe myself and the rest,..going to see the Topic..

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=194371

now works fine ^^