GTA: SA Freezes

[jgbishop]

I'm having an incredibly annoying issue with GTA: SA. After playing for a while, the game simply decides to freeze. The audio continues to play just fine - it's just that the video stops completely.

Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't seem to work, and after a while, the game comes back. I'm running an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, and I don't think temperatures are a problem (although I have to admit I haven't checked). I should also mention that this is the only game where I see this problem.

Once I exit out of the game, I get the ATI VPU recover dialog, indicating that my video card stopped responding to commands. Does anyone know of a potential solution or workaround?

 

[Elcs]

I had it rarely. All I had to do was Alt-Tab, leave it for a brief minute or 2 then it'd skip to desktop and sometimes complain that my 9800 Pro wasnt responding. I closed that window then went back into GTA: SA as was and it ran fine thereafter.