Shaggy
Vice Admiral
Okay your first question maybe be why am I posting a GTAVC question on a WC board, well I'm getting jack in response to my queries on other GTA boards, maybe everybody's off playing San Andreas.
Well here's the problem:
I recently picked up a new copy of GTA Vice City at Wal-Mart, and installed it on my machine after having upgraded only the main hard drive and installing Win XP as my OS. The old drive was formatted and then set it as a slave drive. Right from the start there were sound glitches in the game, the cutscenes and radio channels would stutter repeating the last half second of whatever you're listening to. And there were graphic glitches as well. When ever I was driving around it seemed like I was outrunning the game's ability to render textures, at one point I even outrun it's ability to place solid objects, trying to get a good jump off of a ramp I got a good run up but the ramp wasn't there until about three seconds after I had hit the side of the building I was trying to jump. Then I started using a trainer program to help pass some of the harder missions. As the week went by it finally developed a problem where the character constantly fires any weapon on hand except the fist and ones requiring the secondary view-switching to this view would cause him to fire all of the rounds or not fire at all even with input from the mouse. I switched the mouse out but the problem persisted. Now my computer will boot up normally but all I can do in my OS is move the mouse pointer and bring up the start menu by hitting the Windows button on my keyboard. Nothing else will respond, and I can't start any programs. No mouse clicks seem to register, nor the Enter key, I can't even get the task manager to come up using CTRL ALT Delete!
So if anybody here can help me it would be greatly appreciated, here's my system specs:
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz processor
SiS 650 Integrated video card
C-Media AC97 Integrated sound
Windows XP
Microsoft PS2 roller mouse with wheel, was a Microsoft USB optical till I had to change it
Compaq Presario keyboard, carried over from my old Presario
I'm not exactly sure of how much RAM I have, but it's at least over 400 Meg because part of it is adjustable and set aside for video RAM.
The trainer I was using I had been able to use with no problems whatsoever on my older copy of GTAVC, which now resides with my brother. The Trainer was LithJoe's Ultimate Vice City Trainer version 2.
Well here's the problem:
I recently picked up a new copy of GTA Vice City at Wal-Mart, and installed it on my machine after having upgraded only the main hard drive and installing Win XP as my OS. The old drive was formatted and then set it as a slave drive. Right from the start there were sound glitches in the game, the cutscenes and radio channels would stutter repeating the last half second of whatever you're listening to. And there were graphic glitches as well. When ever I was driving around it seemed like I was outrunning the game's ability to render textures, at one point I even outrun it's ability to place solid objects, trying to get a good jump off of a ramp I got a good run up but the ramp wasn't there until about three seconds after I had hit the side of the building I was trying to jump. Then I started using a trainer program to help pass some of the harder missions. As the week went by it finally developed a problem where the character constantly fires any weapon on hand except the fist and ones requiring the secondary view-switching to this view would cause him to fire all of the rounds or not fire at all even with input from the mouse. I switched the mouse out but the problem persisted. Now my computer will boot up normally but all I can do in my OS is move the mouse pointer and bring up the start menu by hitting the Windows button on my keyboard. Nothing else will respond, and I can't start any programs. No mouse clicks seem to register, nor the Enter key, I can't even get the task manager to come up using CTRL ALT Delete!
So if anybody here can help me it would be greatly appreciated, here's my system specs:
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz processor
SiS 650 Integrated video card
C-Media AC97 Integrated sound
Windows XP
Microsoft PS2 roller mouse with wheel, was a Microsoft USB optical till I had to change it
Compaq Presario keyboard, carried over from my old Presario
I'm not exactly sure of how much RAM I have, but it's at least over 400 Meg because part of it is adjustable and set aside for video RAM.
The trainer I was using I had been able to use with no problems whatsoever on my older copy of GTAVC, which now resides with my brother. The Trainer was LithJoe's Ultimate Vice City Trainer version 2.