Stange GTA Vice City Problem

mrochester · 16 Dec 2007 at 21:16

Hi, I've just started getting back into GTA Vice City having not played it for quite some time. I've installed it on my PC (X2 3800, 3gb ram, X800XL) in both my Vista and XP partition, and in both I have the same problem.

What happens is the game will suddenly speed up for a short period of time, then slow back down to normal pace. What I mean by this is that I can just be walking or driving along, and the whole game will suddenly go very fast for a short period of time, then slow back down to normal again. This also happens in the video cut scenes, meaning I don't get to hear any of the dialogue because the scene is over before they even have a chance to talk!

I've tried turning on and off the Frame Limiter option, but this makes zero difference to the problem.

In addition, I have one other issue. When I save the game by walking into the cassette icon, when I've saved and go back to the game, the mouse has stopped working (I can't turn around etc) and I have to hit Esc to bring up the menu, then hit resume, before the mouse starts working again.

Does anyone have a solution to both of these problems? I really would love to play the game again, but it's going to ruin my enjoyment if it doesn't play properly

Thanks for the help.

paradigm · 16 Dec 2007 at 21:24

Have you got Vsync enabled in CCC?

Helps a lot with GTA games in my experience.

mrochester · 16 Dec 2007 at 21:31

I've possibly found that Vice City doesn't like dual-core processors. Is there a way to make a programme load automatically only 1 core instead of having to manually set it?

West · 16 Dec 2007 at 22:03

mrochester said:
I've possibly found that Vice City doesn't like dual-core processors. Is there a way to make a programme load automatically only 1 core instead of having to manually set it?

Open your task manager, go to the VC Process then right click and set affinity and un-check one of the cores.

mrochester · 16 Dec 2007 at 22:15

West said:
Open your task manager, go to the VC Process then right click and set affinity and un-check one of the cores.

But surely next time you start the game it'll be back to using 2 cores again? Anyway, the AMD dual-core optimiser seems to have done the trick.

rtk · 17 Dec 2007 at 02:00

Ahh vice city, not played that in ages. Think I'll have a game !

SkeeterUK · 17 Dec 2007 at 02:10

http://www.gameboomers.com/Members/legacygameshyperthreading.htm

Scroll down to the line and read that section.

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