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GTA: Vice City problem

jonessoda

Golden Member
So I just installed a copy of GTA:VC (it may help you diagnose the problem if I tell you it's 'completely legitimate' and totally NOT downloaded from BitTorrent as 2 .iso files which were successfully installed and the original .exe replaced with a modified version so it would work, if you catch my drift). The problem is, the framerate is through the roof, which means, in this case, it goes super, super fast. As in, like sped-up-video fast. As is, can't even control the character fast, pistol fires like a machine gun and machine gun fires like the Metal Storm fast. The audio, however, goes normally, although the FMVs just run so rapidly it basically skips any audio and any plot points from that.

I've tried enabling the framerate limiter (which worked on the copy of GTA2 I got when Rockstar put it out as a free download), but that doesn't do anything.

Also, I can't change the res from 640x480, which sucks because my monitor runs at 1280x1024, so the game looks jaggy, but I can deal with that.

My full system information is in the rig link in my sig, but the basics are Athlon64 X2 3800+, 2gb RAM, single GeForce 7800GT 256, Gigabyte GA-K8NSLI Pro mobo.

Any ideas?
 
Okay, I got a fix for both of those problems by changing the compatibility to Windows 98 and deleting the gta_vc.set file, but now whenever I try to start a new game it returns:

"Unhandled exception:c0000005
At address 715aa4a"

and crashes. It doesn't do that on any other compatibility setting (windows 2000, NT) but then the speed problem occurs.

ETA: I tried reinstalling, but that didn't help at all.
 
Its not legal? Just buy the damn thing its old and cheap.

As for your problem, try forcing Vsync to ON in your video driver settings, it should cap the framerate at 60fps (sounds like you got a LCD). And 640x480 must be just horrific, but you can set max AA and AF.
 
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