game wont start at all

[Ethan]

OK, since my video card failed on me I am back to onboard graphics. Nothing else besides this has changed since I haven't played SA for a couple days while I was trying to figure out the issue with that. when I open the client and click connect, it will show it loading and then do something as if it was refreshing, like a  window flash, and nothing works. my external hard drives were disconnected while trouble shooting my card issue but they have been reconnected. I dont know what the problem might even be,
anyone got a clue?

[nyolc8]

My fixes for similar(or same) problem:
go to gta_sa.exe properties, and then compatibility mode options and check "reduced colors"(16bit), and check "disable display scaling on high dpi settings". Then delete gta_sa.set (from documents folder). If still doesn't work, then start gta_sa.exe instead of samp for a single time.

Don't mind the reduced colors option, it won't actually reduce the colors in the game. You will still have 32bit with that option enabled.

[Ethan]

I dont have the "reduced colors"(16bit) option, and I ran it three times, just the exe and its still doing the same thing.. I even set it to run as administrator, and no change
[imgur]http://imgur.com/a/Mg7Hx[/imgur]

[Kake]

I dont have the "reduced colors"(16bit) option, and I ran it three times, just the exe and its still doing the same thing.. I even set it to run as administrator, and no change
[imgur]http://imgur.com/a/Mg7Hx[/imgur]

my one showing those options of nyolc8's

[TheSandman]

You guys are using windows 8, ethan is using 7. We don't have that option.

[Kake]

My fixes for similar(or same) problem:
go to gta_sa.exe properties, and then compatibility mode options and check "reduced colors"(16bit), and check "disable display scaling on high dpi settings". Then delete gta_sa.set (from documents folder). If still doesn't work, then start gta_sa.exe instead of samp for a single time.

Don't mind the reduced colors option, it won't actually reduce the colors in the game. You will still have 32bit with that option enabled.

I don't know what nyolc8 trying to do there but if u want the 16-bit option in windows 7 u can get it like this :
Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Monitor -> u get a option at the bottom to change it from 16 to 32 bit and vice versa (but i think this makes ur whole pc run under 16-bit whereas in nyolc8's method ...it just changed settings of that program) 

[nyolc8]

Ethan: did you try to remove gta_sa.set file?

Kakeshi: for me, starting gtasa in 16bit compatiblity mode, somehow altered the display properties or something like that and that got it to start again. With that option, the color depth didn't actually changed at all in the game. The method you described would change the colors to extra sh*t

[Ethan]

removed gta.set, tried to connect, got:
[15:23:21] {FFFFFF}SA-MP {B9C9BF}0.3z {FFFFFF}Started
[15:23:24] Connecting to 37.187.67.236:7777...
[15:23:30] The server didn't respond. Retrying..
[15:23:30] Connecting to 37.187.67.236:7777...
[15:23:37] The server didn't respond. Retrying..
[15:23:37] Connecting to 37.187.67.236:7777...
[15:23:43] The server didn't respond. Retrying..
[15:23:43] Connecting to 37.187.67.236:7777...
/q here

[Dobby]

Thats not CT. Ask at that server why you can't connect.

Edit:

That server has stupidly upgraded to 0.3.7. Thats why you can't connect.

[Ethan]

I hit wrong server when trying before, my bad

[Ethan]

it was my gta.set... but now everything is fucked and when I just tried, I cant even walk. topic locked seeing as how I am in an unplayable state now without any decent FPS, nor my keyboard wont work.