GTA wont open

[Emily]

This is a dumb question but are all drivers up to date?
if so try switching the theme in personalize to classic or windows basic and try launching again.
windows 7 tries to do this automatically but sometimes it causes problems

[Mr.Me]

General question: Anyone have steam version of san andreas and can play samp??

Me

Benny, how do you do the work around if SAMP says it not supported? the version 1 crack? how do you use the mods?

i do too i did downgrade gta sa steam version to 1.0 and installed samp changed gta_sa to gta_sa x when you downgrade you get GTA_SA and samp change to gta_sa and when you open it via steam gta sa it will open samp and it will say you are in gta_sa on steam i get crash because i dont have all files from gta_sa downgrade is 20mb or more but all files are 1,5gb if i am not wrong

[Ethan]

This is a dumb question but are all drivers up to date?
if so try switching the theme in personalize to classic or windows basic and try launching again.
windows 7 tries to do this automatically but sometimes it causes problems

I have turned off every available option imaginable and every combination possible (that I could think of and by looking on websites) then trying to load it, nothing changed. and yes, all possible graphic, network, USB, PCI, etc..etc.. drivers are up to date..  I even download windows xp mode and virtual pc.

I honestly think it has to do with something in SP1, which (I swear) I dont think I had before reinstallation

[Benny]

Ethan i did this here what nyolc8 posted.

I already linked the workaround for you in shoutbox when you asked there, but here it is again: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1336083

[Ethan]

ok.. I will try that tomorrow considering I bought GTA complete pack on steam

[Ethan]

installing now.. lets hope this works

edit: just to be sure, I am going to (try and) play single player

edit2: wont even open the steam version.

[Mr.Me]

installing now.. lets hope this works

edit: just to be sure, I am going to (try and) play single player

edit2: wont even open the steam version.

then it is not gta fault maybe windows?

[Ethan]

then it is not gta fault maybe windows?

I swear its a SP1 issue

@Carl
CarlJohnson [25 Mar 21:30]:   You neither formatted your windows nor you changed them so you only did 75% of what we told you......
Ive said how many times that I dont have a second windows 7 license, what part of that don you understand??

@hobo
Hobo [25 Mar 20:34]:   Have you downloaded a 100% vanilla copy?
yes, I installed steam version, made no changes to it whatsoever

[Hobo]

Check pm.

[CarlJohnson]

then it is not gta fault maybe windows?

I swear its a SP1 issue

@Carl
CarlJohnson [25 Mar 21:30]:   You neither formatted your windows nor you changed them so you only did 75% of what we told you......
Ive said how many times that I dont have a second windows 7 license, what part of that don you understand??

@hobo
Hobo [25 Mar 20:34]:   Have you downloaded a 100% vanilla copy?
yes, I installed steam version, made no changes to it whatsoever

What part of reinstalling and formatting you didn't understand?

[Ethan]

Carl, pay attention to the following sentence: I do not have another windows 7 license to install it a second time, so stop telling to reinstall and format!!

@hobo, I saw..

Sent from my nexus

[Wizzer]

I do not have another windows 7 license to install it a second time, so stop telling to reinstall and format!!

You could simply download win7 with crack and burn to disc and reinstall ur windows..

[Ethan]

I'll talk to Hax again.. I'm going to buy a hard drive first. Not reformatting the one I have.. cheap hdd, or cheap ssd? Hmm.

[nyolc8]

You want to buy a harddrive just because gtasa not running? It's obviously not a hardware problem since everything else works for you. Did you try to install another graphics card driver? Also, did you install any driver for the display/monitor itself? Or it just runs with stock windows display driver?

[Ethan]

I want to buy a new drive to install windows on because I dont think I have enough room on my external drive to save everything I have currently on my hard drive. I can then install windows on that drive, maybe 40GB- 80GB drive for less then $50.. perhaps a 32-64 GB SSD.

why would I install a different graphics driver to the one I actually have at the moment?, and yes I installed a monitor driver that came with it. I dont think it runs from the stock windows driver.

i will try hobos method later as my sister is in the hospital and we have my nieces over, no real time to 'work' on this while they are here.