Windows XP error - Vice City

long_b

Hi All

I'm going bananas with this already ...

Trying to run Vice City on my Centrino 1.4 Fujitsu Laptop, 512 MB memory, Intel® 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (Intel® 852/855 Chipset Family).

Can get to select "New Game" - freezes on the next screen "Marco's Bistro, 1986".
Windows comes back 20 seconds later with "Windows has detected and recovered from ..." error. At this stage the screen's gone back to 640x480 and the pallette's screwed.

Here's the fun bit .. I've reinstalled the latest version of the Graphics Drivers, Direct X and the game itself a couple of times now. Another game ("Mafia") runs fine on the same machine. Intel says my graphics setup should handle the game OK.

Has anyone had / heard of anything similar ? I'm going mad here ...

Stephen

There is a Windows XP patch for vice city, but I don't think it addresses that problem. Try it anyway though.

long_b

Forgot to say .. dxdiag runs fine, no problems anywhere.

Using DirectX 9

long_b

Thanks Stephen.

I've applied the already ?patch

Has anyone managed to run it with the same "graphics card" even ?

Caliden

dd u try turning down al the extra frivels like high detail and everything.
i got an error like that on halo but it was sorted when i turned off things like shadows and decals and put texture detail to medium
im using a radeon 9200 atm also

long_b

I'll try that alright, but I don't think my card is that fancy. I've tried lowering the hardware acceleration right down ... from about midway or less it gives me "Not enough video memory" error.

Are there any in-game options I should knock off ?

Oriel

You're probably going to have more sucess on the game's/developer's support website. You'll have a lot more chance of finding people there with the same problem as you.

long_b

Thanks all ... will see if I get any joy out of the developers ...

long_b

Success !

Intel just put up some new drivers ... version 6.14 ... did the trick anyway.

Happy bunny now

Crimson

for some reson theres a no-cd hack that infact works for that kinda prob