problems getting into Advanced GTA SA Video config

[EL_BURRO]

ok, so i got the game, and i got it to work (though i havent found the save games folder, and i havent been able to play cuz it runs too slow, i suposse its because of my old comp) but when playing, its like hey.............. 3 hours later............. yo CJ! come here!.................. 5 hours later........... got on the bike, and so on and so on and so on
i made my graphics card work with best performance, not quality, and it helped me a lot, still, it gets hard to play at 15 or 20 fps, dunno how much i have
okok, i have an old comp ok, but b4 laughing and insulting, please, try to help me, please, pentium iii 866mhz, 384mb ram, 1.5+ gb free disk space, nvidia geforce 2 mx 32mb, windows xp professional with service pack 1
when i try to enter the advanced commands of the video config, i get the THE THE =)!("$=!"$ windows error that says the application needs to be closed because it made an error. DANG IT i said, tried a few more times, with diff resolutions and nothing, and i really want to decrease the resolution, delete shadows and take off that cool-but-slowing-and-huge-motion-bloor-effect
please, i got a new hoodlum crack and some fixes around there (in gamecopyworld, and im sorry if i cannot name the site or something like that, i didnt know) but still nothing

any ideas???
thx for your time bros

[DABhand]

To be honest with you, you need new hardware. Doesnt matter how low your settings it will still run like a snail.

[Kakarott]

@ topic: Buy new cpu, mainboard(cause i dont think ur board supports 2gh+ cpus), more Memory(1gig is so great to windows, much more performance) and minimum a GEFORCE 5000+ or Radeon 9500+ or much higher.


But another question, therei s a advanced grafic menu for gta? Another than this "advanced settings" in the game menu?


The Game slows down on my pc too, but i got more than enough power i think(2,8gh, gf6800ultra, 1gig dual channel ram, etc.)?
After a couple of time(2-4hours), the game begins to slow down, it stops when i drive, the music stops, if this were a online game, i would say i have lag *lol*

But why is it so? No temperature problem, cpu and graphiccard is absolutely "cool", i can run 3d Mark 2005 after i finished gta cause i cant play with this stupid slow downs, 3d Mark Tests run with full power. No slowdown, no problems and if u know that benchmark, u will see that the gta graphics are a joke agaisnt the benchmark, but still gta starts to slow down ...


Drivers are also up to date ...

[EL_BURRO]

meh, i was afraid someone would say that im short of money
well, anyway, theres only one advanced graphics menu in san andreas, thats the one you and i say and thats the one i cannot enter to
i was trying to get a geforce 4, it wouldnt be bad to have one, and then, if its possible, get a new comp, this one may still be around so the geforce 4 would come in handy anyway
maybe in 5 years i can afford a 2.8 ghz comp hahahahha
thx for the help, better go back to vice city with some cool weirdo mod , if anyone knows a great total conversion (with new missions if possible) just let me know, no matter how big it is (200mb+)
cya

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by Kakarott

@ topic: Buy new cpu, mainboard(cause i dont think ur board supports 2gh+ cpus), more Memory(1gig is so great to windows, much more performance) and minimum a GEFORCE 5000+ or Radeon 9500+ or much higher.


But another question, therei s a advanced grafic menu for gta? Another than this "advanced settings" in the game menu?


The Game slows down on my pc too, but i got more than enough power i think(2,8gh, gf6800ultra, 1gig dual channel ram, etc.)?
After a couple of time(2-4hours), the game begins to slow down, it stops when i drive, the music stops, if this were a online game, i would say i have lag *lol*

But why is it so? No temperature problem, cpu and graphiccard is absolutely "cool", i can run 3d Mark 2005 after i finished gta cause i cant play with this stupid slow downs, 3d Mark Tests run with full power. No slowdown, no problems and if u know that benchmark, u will see that the gta graphics are a joke agaisnt the benchmark, but still gta starts to slow down ...


Drivers are also up to date ...

If you pump up the settings as high as they can go, sometimes this helps with performance. Some people have commented that lower settings lag a game while forcing higher settings improves it.

Or you could try disabling Anti-Aliasing (you will lose the smoothness to the gfx) but it may help speed up a bit.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by EL_BURRO

meh, i was afraid someone would say that im short of money
well, anyway, theres only one advanced graphics menu in san andreas, thats the one you and i say and thats the one i cannot enter to
i was trying to get a geforce 4, it wouldnt be bad to have one, and then, if its possible, get a new comp, this one may still be around so the geforce 4 would come in handy anyway
maybe in 5 years i can afford a 2.8 ghz comp hahahahha
thx for the help, better go back to vice city with some cool weirdo mod , if anyone knows a great total conversion (with new missions if possible) just let me know, no matter how big it is (200mb+)
cya

Even an MSI KM4M-V with a AMD Sempron would be cheap for you. You could use your Hard Drive still, but you will have to get memory, just now 512mb Crucial (good brand) is around £40ish in the UK dont know about argentina. But it may be a good idea for you.

[Kakarott]

i read just a few hours ago in a gta review from a gaming magazine, that the gta slow downs, crshes, freezes or whatever are NORMAL, this stupid errors or problems can f..ck the best sytem if u'r unlucky...



bad coding, half year und such probs with that kind of graphics to display....

anyway, its a cool game

[EL_BURRO]

your kinda right, i mean, come on, allow me to say that, those graphics suck, okok, lets suppose that they wanted to make a trilogy, ok, done, and they considered as a good idea to mantain the same engine and the same kind of graphics (even though you can see better ones from game to game), but come on, it has a hyper huge map, with hyper high draw distance and comes out of the factory with normal almost high configuration.
sorry, the idea was too long, and i couldnt finish it in one sentence, my point is, they got very cool ideas, an awesome cool game, but it should have been pre-setted to low settings (like NFSU2, most people dont even know that you can actually make your car shiny and cute by improving the settings) so that you dont have problems; sony got its stupid premium time, 6 months, then make the game better, smoother and quicker, nowadays games almost look real, and with those cheap graphics (i really love them though) the game runs slow, crashes and has a lots of troubles. am i the only one who sees the cars bumping and crashing and when they do they get on top of the others, fall, flip over and explode??? i mean, physics are not right, they crash and fly away or mount on each other. please tell me i am not the only one that sees a red light and then 3 cars one above the other when you first start the game (if you dont, i sense my copy is somehow a bad one..... mmmmmm....... and i cannot enter to the advanced graphics menu......... weird?? or coincidence?)
anyway, im looking forward for some tools like those for gta3 and vice that let you decrease view distance and all that stuff, may help, also some mod that deletes pedestrians and cars (theres one that deletes them all, i would need to have some hanging around, you know, to kill and steal cars) that *"MAY"* improve my gaming experience.....
sorry, got out of the topic, if the game has all those problems, somethings not right, i mean, 6 months for nothing?? with those graphics, the game should run a lot better, it aint no far cry or battlefield 2

[Kakarott]

ur right el burro, but not with all.

the game sould not be realistic, it should make fun. Of course its not realistic that the police kills people with simple "drive over"(lol) or remove ur police stars with a visit at the pray shop, but it makes fun.

A Game must not be realistic, to enjoy people. And i love great graphics, but i like the gta style, but its still CRAP coding from Rockstar(sony dont code this game, they distribute it) that on all machines we can get problems.

Thats lame, really lame. for example i must quit the game after running a few minutes and EMULE in the background, cause it slows so damn down. But 1sec later i can play area 51 with all details without slowdowns or run benchmark 05, with many fps.


Its a simply coding proble, hope they fix it with a patch.
but iam very sure, they wont change their graphic details inside the game.
And anyway, u cant say rockstar is stupid or lame cause with ur pc u cant play, cause u cant push the settings more lower than the graphic is already. u REALLY need a new machine, i DONT REALLY WANNA KNOW how bad gta looks with completely low settings.

think u play better gta 1 or 2, more fun, more speed

[EL_BURRO]

your right, my point wasnt that the game is not realistic, the point is that, with that kind of graphics , cartoon like ones, they should have made a better code
the graphics ARE cool, and they dont look so ugly in my comp, i just say that the game is made with that style of models and textures, and it should run smooth on every comp (almost in every) but some people with great machines say that slows down and crashes, thats the complain i have
i dont want them to change the graphic details inside the game, i say that it would have been good, to start gta and run it in 640x480 or in a very cheap quality (like nfsu2 does), so that you can improve them from the menus if you think you can handle it. anyway, it WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD, but im not mad about that

so, lets make things clear, sony doesnt have anything to do, but if they get their premium time, we should get a better coding, come on, if it werent for the comps, consoles wouldnt even exist, and we get all these glitches and bad physics?
gta does have incredible graphics (smooth, cool and simple but nice), but it should also have a better coding in this final release (San Andreas). i dont want to complain too much about the gta style because if we compare SA with gta3, the change is huge, they made an awesome work, cars look almost real now, but seems like a rollback from Vice City to SA with the glitches and errors
rockstar is not stupid because i cant run it with low settings, they just need to be careful with all the things i said in this post, glitches and bla bla bla......
i already finished all the gta saga, included london 1969, thats why i want a good total conversion for vice city, to release my fury man!!!! i cant play SA, lets play a new mod for vice, something is something