I thought I would post this on here as well as the GTA forums so please excuse the copy and paste. Any idea,s or advice would be great.
I picked GTA4 up on thursday evening at my local Morrisons for the princely sum of £9.99, I had decided to give it a couple of patches before buying, as there seemed to be some issue,s at launch. But I have been having a absolute nightmare with this game and normally I could fix it myself or google my problems away.
My spec,s are as below.
Dual boot:
Vista 64 ultimate SP1 fully upto date.
XP Pro 32bit SP3 fully upto date.
DirectX upto date.
Ati drivers tried 8.12,8.12HF,9.1 on both OS'es
[email protected], 8 hours Prime 95 multi core stable since sept/07
ATI HD4870 512mb stock clocks
4gb corsair xms8500c5
WD RaptorX150gb+ Seagate 7200.11 500gb
Samsung DVD drives
GTA4 Retail copy+latest patch via GFWL
Vista 64 install
So my problems started pretty much straight away, after installing the game I headed into the menu system only to be met with my first hard lockup, whilst browsing the graffix options.
Restarted and went back in and changed the resolution to 1680x1050, aspect ratio to 16-10 60hz and let the game auto configure the rest. Memory usage was 436 out of a reported 499, not quite sure what happened to the other 13mb.
Start the game up and during the first cut scene the game locked up, restarted and was able to get to my cousins house before my next lock up, this time with some graphical issue,s.
Decided to roll back to 8.12 as I had been using 9.1 upto now, this has made no differance, I am still getting these constant lockups. The longest I have been able to play is about 30 mins before another lockup. Tried the 8.12HF drivers and as above no differance. Re-installed the game and let GFWL install the patch etc and still no difference, now every time it is a hard lock, I can do nothing but force a restart on the pc. I have also tried the no-disc exe listed on this forum, but alas this has not helped either and only allowed me to leave the disc in the box.
XP Pro SP3 install
So my next thought was this may be a Vista or 64 bit related problem, so I installed on to my XP 32 bit drive, only to be met with exactly the same type of hard lockups as above. This was with any of the latest Cat drivers.
I have had no issue's with any other game like this before, my PC has been rock stable since being built in sept 2007 with the only change being the HD4870 replacing my 8800GTX in august last year. All the other games that I play(Crysis/Crysis Warhead/COD4/Bioshock/L4D/BF2142/Mirrors Edge/Fallout3/Farcry2/GOW/COH/C&C3) do not cause any hard lockups, only the very rare CTD. If any one here can give me any pointers as of what to do/try next, other than throwing it in the bin, that would be great.
I picked GTA4 up on thursday evening at my local Morrisons for the princely sum of £9.99, I had decided to give it a couple of patches before buying, as there seemed to be some issue,s at launch. But I have been having a absolute nightmare with this game and normally I could fix it myself or google my problems away.
My spec,s are as below.
Dual boot:
Vista 64 ultimate SP1 fully upto date.
XP Pro 32bit SP3 fully upto date.
DirectX upto date.
Ati drivers tried 8.12,8.12HF,9.1 on both OS'es
[email protected], 8 hours Prime 95 multi core stable since sept/07
ATI HD4870 512mb stock clocks
4gb corsair xms8500c5
WD RaptorX150gb+ Seagate 7200.11 500gb
Samsung DVD drives
GTA4 Retail copy+latest patch via GFWL
Vista 64 install
So my problems started pretty much straight away, after installing the game I headed into the menu system only to be met with my first hard lockup, whilst browsing the graffix options.
Restarted and went back in and changed the resolution to 1680x1050, aspect ratio to 16-10 60hz and let the game auto configure the rest. Memory usage was 436 out of a reported 499, not quite sure what happened to the other 13mb.
Start the game up and during the first cut scene the game locked up, restarted and was able to get to my cousins house before my next lock up, this time with some graphical issue,s.
Decided to roll back to 8.12 as I had been using 9.1 upto now, this has made no differance, I am still getting these constant lockups. The longest I have been able to play is about 30 mins before another lockup. Tried the 8.12HF drivers and as above no differance. Re-installed the game and let GFWL install the patch etc and still no difference, now every time it is a hard lock, I can do nothing but force a restart on the pc. I have also tried the no-disc exe listed on this forum, but alas this has not helped either and only allowed me to leave the disc in the box.
XP Pro SP3 install
So my next thought was this may be a Vista or 64 bit related problem, so I installed on to my XP 32 bit drive, only to be met with exactly the same type of hard lockups as above. This was with any of the latest Cat drivers.
I have had no issue's with any other game like this before, my PC has been rock stable since being built in sept 2007 with the only change being the HD4870 replacing my 8800GTX in august last year. All the other games that I play(Crysis/Crysis Warhead/COD4/Bioshock/L4D/BF2142/Mirrors Edge/Fallout3/Farcry2/GOW/COH/C&C3) do not cause any hard lockups, only the very rare CTD. If any one here can give me any pointers as of what to do/try next, other than throwing it in the bin, that would be great.
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