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

[!HaGaR!]

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

[OnkelMP]

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.

[noscript]

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.

[ShadowDuke]

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

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 ^^