GTA San Andreas- Possible Fixes against Crash

Invisible People Problem or Ghost appearance. You will see partialyl half visible people on streets and the performance of game will be choppy or slow. Mostly this problem is experienced with ATI cards.

This problem can be fixed with the following steps..

fixed this problem with the methods given below...

1. Uninstall your recent ATI catalyst drivers and install ATi catalyst 4.9. Download here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=863

2. Go to DRIVE:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files and delete this file: gta_sa.set file

If still you dont find any working solution, see this forum: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=194960

Posted by: tikko on 2005-08-16
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Crash to desktop

Many people had found that win98 compatibility fixed their crash in windows xp. Right click on your exe file and select win98 compatibility mode to run your game. This might fix your game

Posted by: admin on 2005-08-16
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The game slows down or lags, especially in crowded places or during mission fights.

Just set your graphics settings to low and the game would rock. i really had this problem in the game when settings in medium mode, even though i had 128mb ati graphics card. Neverthless, i hardly experienced any difference in graphics details, but performance was very good.

Posted by: sandilsk on 2005-11-02
AMD Athlon 2800 - 512MB DDR RAM - ATI Radeon 9200SE - Creative 4.1 Sound - Win XP SP2

Many people are talking about that GTASA goes to a blue screen in the middle of their game while playing under Win98 OS.

GTA SA does support Win98 OS. But since i was playing under 64 bit processor. To my knowledge i was told that Win 98 is 32 bit operating system and not at all recommeded for 64 bit processors. of course winxp is 64 bit operating system. so playing san andreas with 64bit processor under win98 will definitely give you lot of incompatibility problems or crash

Posted by: soldierk on 2005-11-02
AMD 64, 512RAM, ATI 9600

GTA San Andreas problems can be fixed for the following problems using a patch.

• Issue fixed on machines where the OS has been updated (one OS installed over top of another) and has 2 registry keys that point to the users "My Documents" folder (we incorrectly used to assume the Win2000 folder, now correctly uses the last installed OS folder) - users know this as "user account period bug".
• Crash when entering advanced display options with only 32 meg of video ram (32 meg of video ram is not supported and will only allow use of 640*480 in 16 and 32 bit. At this resolution it is likely you will see the "Black Roads" LOD problem). We do NOT however disallow machines with 32 meg of video ram from running GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas.
• Crash when entering advanced display options on a dual monitor machine after :- starting game on primary monitor in maximum resolution, exiting, starting again in maximum resolution on secondary monitor. Secondary monitor maximum resolution had to be greater than maximum resolution of primary monitor.
• Destroyed cars now are correct colour.
• Dirty cars now able to get clean.
• Numpad 5 key is now mappable when re-defining controls.
• Issue on all machines where certain collisions caused parts of the audio system to crash (sound effects, cutscene audio - only radio keeps going) - users know this as "Rain / Thunderstorm bug".
• Improvements to DVD streaming.
• Audio problems in interior / exterior transitions and getting in / out of cars fixed.
• Some fixes to ensure reverb is not present at certain save points.
• Improvements to dance game timings.
• Crash occuring when using "user radio files" while the frame limiter is disabled.

Download and install Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Patch 1.01 from..

http://www.take2games.com/support/patches/SA_US_1.01_COLD.zip (us)

http://www.take2games.com/support/patches/SA_Euro_1.01_COLD.zip (EU/AU)

http://www.take2games.com/support/patches/SA_Germ_1.01_COLD.zip (Deutsch/German)

Posted by: oldguy on 2005-11-16
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Hi.. I am using Pentium 4 and Xabre 80 64 MB vga by sis..
my problem was, While playing the game it caused error of physical memory and i had to restart computer but game never ran again...I just had the following fix done and that worked for me...

Delete the Gta_san.set file from your documents...
../Mydocument/Gta san andreas user files/Gta_san.set
and then run the game..this works...thanks GameCrashes.com...you provided me with great help...

Posted by: Adeel Ahmed on 2006-03-21
Motherboared Asus Vga: Xabre 80 by sis Processor 2.8 Ram:256

it seems to crash at the loading acreen no loading bar comes up but just crashes

dont know how i need help how to

Posted by: shaun williams on 2006-06-02
sis 32 mb 523 ram pet 4 1.7 gb's 450 gb hard drive opengl system driver

in the begging after where it says the logos rockstar north etc. after that its crashes and returns me to the desktop

i dont know how to fix it help i tried everything

Posted by: jivaka on 2007-06-09
pentium 4 3.06gh ati video card asus mother board

Serveral desktop crashes.

If you have windowblinds. Turn it off, it caused many crashes when it was on with me. Especialy on the mission where you have to drive in a plane. In the desert.

Posted by: Delark on 2007-06-11
P4 - Ati mobilty radeon. X700 128mb Windows XP SP2

WHEN I RUN THE GAME AFTER THE ADDS OF NVDIA AND ROACKSTAR GAMES IN 1 SEC WHEN I SEE THE LOGO OF SAN ANDREAS IT CRASH AND GO BACK TO DESKTOP ....

my game is not running help me guys

Posted by: dady_yankee on 2007-12-03
PENTIUM4 2.8 processor AND1 GB RAM 32 MB CARD

The game freezes on AMD processors.

I have seen this problem on 2 computers both using AMD processors. Only AMD processors seem to have this problem. It looks like a overheat problem.

For fixing this, I would definitely recommend buying an Intel Processor. I had an Intel 1.7 GHz before and this never happened on it.

but as for the current CPU. I would appreciate some help. Is there anything that can fix this?

Posted by: AMiR on 2007-12-19
AMD Athlon XP +2800 2.08GHZ - 512MB DDR RAM - ATI Radeon 9200 on AGP8X slot- AC97 onboard soundcard - Windows XP Professional SP2

WHEN I RUN THE GAME AFTER THE ADDS OF NVDIA AND ROACKSTAR GAMES IN 1 SEC WHEN I SEE THE LOGO OF SAN ANDREAS IT CRASH AND GO BACK TO DESKTOP ....

now i didnt run

Posted by: mujeeb on 2008-02-05
intel(R) pentium(R) CPU 2.40GHz 2.39GHz,256MB of RAM

Do you have any working solution about fixing a particular game crash? If so please