Help with GTA3 & winXP....
01 June 2002, 01:31 PM
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Just got GTA3 - loads fine but I've got a graphics problem - no text on the screen!!!
I'm using a Hercules G-Force 2 GTS Ultra card with NVidia drivers (v. 5.01.2001 - XP publisher version)....
I'm trying to load in the Hercules drivers, but when I uninstall the NVidia, XP asks to restart, and upon restarting, the drivers are just re-installed!!!![img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
How do I disable this auto-install function? or any other ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
I'm using a Hercules G-Force 2 GTS Ultra card with NVidia drivers (v. 5.01.2001 - XP publisher version)....
I'm trying to load in the Hercules drivers, but when I uninstall the NVidia, XP asks to restart, and upon restarting, the drivers are just re-installed!!!![img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
How do I disable this auto-install function? or any other ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
01 June 2002, 02:22 PM
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Not sure about the installing thing but the text corruption is due to a bug in XP.
If you look at the read me file that gets installed on you program bar along with the game link it will describe the cure (just download a patch from microsoft related to a screensaver problem with XP)
What used to work on older versions of windows is changing the driver to a generic SVGA / VGA etc before uninstalling the nvidea driver. Alternately there is usually an utility to unintall nvides drivers bundled on the DVD from PCG magazine.
Good luck - its a great game and worth the hassle.
Rich
If you look at the read me file that gets installed on you program bar along with the game link it will describe the cure (just download a patch from microsoft related to a screensaver problem with XP)
What used to work on older versions of windows is changing the driver to a generic SVGA / VGA etc before uninstalling the nvidea driver. Alternately there is usually an utility to unintall nvides drivers bundled on the DVD from PCG magazine.
Good luck - its a great game and worth the hassle.
Rich
02 June 2002, 12:47 PM
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Sorted thanks!!!! 
Every now and again, the game hangs though, and XP comes up with a hardware error, resulting in a reset........
Oh well, great game though!
Dan
Every now and again, the game hangs though, and XP comes up with a hardware error, resulting in a reset........
Oh well, great game though!
Dan
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