GTA San Andreas Crashes every 15-20 min!!!!
 

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Not to mention frustrating time mission design, this game crashes every fricking 20 min! it starts to lag seriously as if a memory leak and then crashes with no errors. Anyone got any ideas?

If you're having problems with your original CD/DVD, then RTFM, run Windows update, update your drivers, contact the publisher, read the official game support forum etc...

You should check out the PC troubleshooting section of http://www.gtaforums.com - its a freaking HUGE forum dedicated to the GTA series. It looks like there's already lots of tips there for crashes. You'd probably get a better answer there than here.

Every 20 mins huh.

Sure your PC isnt overheating, specifically your GFX card?

I'm an overclocker dude. Trust me, I know about the heat related crashes! I had 4.78 ghz on this CPU! :) It's a celeron D 2.4 :p

Why do I play games on this gay system? Because doom 3 runs on max setting, so does any other fps including far cry, rome total war, boiling point, but this game lags all the sudden and crashes.

My system is 2.4 Celeron
geforce 6800 ultra 256 mb
4 gigs ocz ram ddr400, no heatspreaders
v7 mobo, from abit (all drivers updated)
no sound card
Sata controller card

Yet GTA runs slow as hell at max setting in the unplayable range! Hell boiling point ran great even and that is a bigger game plus better graphics, and even a memory leak which I belive they fixed now!

edit..................... GTA forums has my IP banned!!!!!! WTF?

Why do people overclock, not only does it stress out components, but OC'ing that CPU to a high clocking is really bad.

GTA:SA runs fine on mine on high settings.

Something not right on your end. Perhaps like most people your using perhaps a software soundcard (onboard) which doesnt work well on full acceleration. Try going into dxdiag and turning down the acceleration on sound to none.

Many overclock for the fun of it and sees it as a challenge... That was why I did it before but now I can't get the same rush... :P
Good overclocking rarely makes any component stressed out so badly it would die before any upgrade anyway...

My guess would be on that your CPU can't handle the overclocking to a 100% or has been damaged due to bad cooling when overclocking and maybe GTA SA is a bit more sensitive when it comes to slightly damaged CPU's?
So set all clockspeeds to original speed and try again... If that won't help check the drivers again and as a last resort check your hardware (especially the RAM) for possible damages...

I also overclock my system.

I have a:

Athlon64 3200+
1Gb Ram
6800 GT @ 425/1150 (past ultra)

Never had a problem with any games. Your overclock probably isnt causing it unless you have crap cooling. Have you made sure your nvidia drivers are up to date? Try the 77.50 drivers from www.guru3d.com

Also is your motherboards bios up to date & all your motherboard chipset drivers? 4Gb of ram will slow your system down, use 2Gb max if I were you. With 4Gb you're limiting your overclock & also it'll run slower. The more memory you have the longer it'll take to access. Get 1 or 2 Gb with good timings for best results. The only game that benefits from 2Gb over 1Gb at the moment is the battlefield 2 demo!!

I just cleaned the dust out of the system. Let's hope it works. I have my vid card use 2 gigs as it's own because in games like Boiling Point, this makes it run super smooth. Oh, and 512 mb cards for doom 3, pffffffffffft, I got a 2.25 gb geforce 6800 ultra :) And it's good ram, OCZ!!!!

Will try my stuff now.

Well.... ahhh... hum... What did u mean at all? Makes no sense to me what u r describing...

I haven't played the P.C. version of the game yet but I see there is a crash patch available at GCW, maybe that would help.

Can you repeat in english please? also, 512mb cars.. 2.25 gb geforce? riiiiiight...

Well postaldudeleo you should really take a look at what you are writing here... Let the Geforce use 2gb ram on its own, no way. There is no way you can adress the RAM to use for graphics (unless you are thinking of APG Aperture Size but thats bull**** with 2gb on that one, sooo unecessary).

And I kinda figuread that you meant you had 2.25gb RAM (OCZ brand, yes good ram I agree on that) and a Geforce 6800 Ultra (that has 512mb RAM).

But lets get into the 4gb RAM discussion here... That is not needed as windows can't adress more than 3576mb RAM meaning that whats over will be "backup temp storage" for PIA units and the like... :D
Also when having 2.25gb ram I figure that would be... hmmm... 2x1gb sticks + 1x256mb stick.. That would kill a lot of the system as it would disable Dual-Channel...

Anyway back on topic here... Get the crackfix and try that one, or play with your original disc. If it still crashes I would say that some driver is crap or that some of your hardware is failing in you!

Thats right AGP app dude, yea! I did that for Boiling Point. Oh, and I do need as much ram as I can get as I use both my system in Maya 6 which takes almost a gig of ram, sometime more when rendering complex pics. (Oh, the 256 mb is ddr3 that is the normal my vid card has embedded.)

Oh, and AGP app does help with games such as Boiling Point.

Finally, yes that was a rant, but the point is that my system works like the shizzle in any other software yet crashes only in this game. Even with my original cd, this thing still crashes.

I think there is a patch coming.

Still can't see the need for 4gb of RAM I would rather buy like 1TB of HDD and be happy with 2gb RAM... :D

Do a recheck on your drivers, reinstall the game and simply for testing downclock the sytem...