I recently upgraded my laptop with a new graphics card (PCI Slot in the dock, and I don't mean PCI-E), and I decided to play San andreas. After clicking the icon, I get a "gtasa.exe has encountered an error and has had to closed" error. I got this error before, before I upgraded my laptop's GPU, but I assumed it was the fact that a 16mb ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 wasn't good enough. But my computer is perfectly capable of GTA:SA now that it has a better GPU. System specs and Vice city problem: IBM Thinkpad T30 IBM Dock II 512mb DDR RAM 1.8ghz Pentium 4 M 250gb WD "My passport" External HDD (Where the game is installed) ZOTAC Nvidia Geforce GT 520 512mb DDR3 (PCI) (And not PCI-E) 1920x1080 Toshiba TV (though I plan on running the game at 1280x720) Windows XP SP3 For the GTA:VC problem: About 5-seconds in-game (after menu and loading screen), the entire computer locks up, I mean nothing works. Not even the caps lock light. (GTA III works fine) (Also EVERYTHING is updated)
Is your copy of SA genuine? And do you have any mods running? If so they could be conflicting and causing it to crash upon launch, it's happened to me in a few games before.
Hmmm, could be lack of main memory available then. (Or a stupid number of other possibilities really) I've heard people who have SA get the problem due to it. EDIT: Looking at your RAM, 512MB I high doubt will run GTASA.
I never really had this problem other than for the reason it was the crack I was using at the time, so I'm stumped over this. Has Elgoog turned anything useful up?
Ok yall, San Andreas is working now.....after 3 re-installs that took hours.... Now for the Vice City problem. @Rarit e My computer will NOT be capable of GTA 5.
A lot of times when the entire computer crashes when starting a game is because the video driver has crashed. SOMETIMES it will recover and you may receive the message "Display Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding, has successfully recovered". Of course being that the computer has completely locked up, unfortunately it becomes more difficult to determine if it is the video driver or not. I'd try FULLY uninstalling and reinstalling the video drivers first. (Did you uninstall the drivers from the previous nvidia card before replacing the card???) My personal experience - I've spent a few years building custom PC's and once had an issue for a few months with game crashing and display freezing. My PSU was not supplying enough power to my video card and in turn actually burned it out. Perhaps a similar issue is happening here. Are you running the laptop off its battery or AC adapter? Try running it off the AC adapter and give it the best possible chance (power wise) and see if it works. If you've already done that, there is a possibility that the laptop just can't handle the stress with the external card and the game you're trying to run and may be starved of power.
You said you had a Radeon card and now an Nvidia card? You need to make sure you uninstall the Radeon drivers before installing the Nvidia ones, otherwise the two will conflict (and the Radeon drivers realizing it's not even an ATI card) and cause any number of problems ranging from graphics glitches to hardware damage. Outside of that, your error is very general and would likely require many Google searches and time invested into checking out the most common reasons why it could be failing.
