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06-06-2002, 03:12 AM
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GTA3 slow.....
I just bought GTA3 for the pc about a week ago and really enjoyed it - however a few days ago it started jolting and I mean REALLY badly when you get out of a car it will stop for about a minute before you can continue - it worked fine before but this is really bugging me.....
it makes it somewhat unplayable especially when you are racing down a road being chased by cops and it locks up - NICE!... it isn't like a normal jolt either because the game doesn't advance while it's paused it just literally stops for ages and then picks up where it left off... anyone had the same problem? ------ oooh just had a thought - I am running XP - I had some problems when I first tried running it so I installed the latest patch from microsoft and that fixed the initial problems and it ran fine for a few days... could it be XP? Last edited by TdM; 06-06-2002 at 03:15 AM. |
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06-06-2002, 05:06 PM
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What video card and driver are you using?
I'm running GTA3 with XP and a GForce3 using 2920 drivers. I get an occasional quick pause but no lockups. |
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06-06-2002, 06:28 PM
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I don't know about XP, but Take Two are recommending 800x600x16bit High Colour for anyone suffering slowdown.
DirectX 8.1 is also a must. |
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06-06-2002, 11:52 PM
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maybe your computer is doing something in the background..(scanning drives, imaging,etc.) i get a similiar problem while playing games with norton utilities running ....
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06-07-2002, 06:51 PM
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i had that problem only once and it hasnt happened since
i had to do a dual boot on my PC just to get the damn game to work properly  i ran it in XP and all the text came up as partly dissolved boxes, dual booted with Me which i had kicking around and it is perfect now and im running on 1024x768x32 ... if its any help 
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06-07-2002, 07:03 PM
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http://www.gta3forums.com
look at the technical forum.. 99% of owners have problems with it. stores are starting to take it off their shelves because every copy that got sold was returned. |
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06-12-2002, 06:13 PM
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I've had no problems with GTA3 in WinXP. It also works fine, but not quite as well on my other system running WinME, but that's the computer. What kinds of problems are other people having?
-KEiTH |
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06-12-2002, 09:09 PM
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Hey it works fine for me and i only Have a visiotek Xtasy Geforce4 MX420 and i think i wouldnt recommend that card to get it going with xp can be a pain !!! i had to install some drivers and what not........if you go to THE website the game was made has a link for it in start WINDOWS XP has problem with game and some cards most of them YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A DRIVER go to tech support on the site i first installed the game no text would showup..!!! myself i think its a way of preventing mass pirating becuase its a pain in the ...beeeep lol if they requered a key code to download the patch they would basicly have a pirate protection
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06-12-2002, 10:11 PM
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06-13-2002, 10:57 AM
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runs like crud on my
duron 700 / ATI AIW Radeon 32mb DDR / 1 gig ram |
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06-13-2002, 01:34 PM
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I'm running 2.4GHz P4, GeForce 3 Ti200, 512M RDRAM, and the game momentarily pauses during play. Services optimized for gaming. Nothing running in background.
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06-13-2002, 04:55 PM
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i dont remember what drivers...
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06-18-2002, 02:11 PM
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I'm trying to run it on 2K but it's hellishly slow also
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