Well, installed SA for the first time in a long period (around a year) and now it crashes after three minutes. It's a clean install, no mods. No errors, just minimizing and cannot be accessed without restarting the game. I need hep. EDITS: Well, as there not exist any SA support forum here, i placed it here. And also, i am on the mission "Big Smoke" and it might be a corrupt save? I have no idea. I need help quick.

Edited January 9, 201412 yr by Officer Vic

Did you say your are minimizing the SA window and then it crashes? Maybe that could be the issue?

Also, have you been able to play the game before on that computer? 

Are you playing a pirated copy? I'm currently playing a bit of San Andreas with no problems.

Legal, good before and it minimizes by itself.

Could you try and run it in compability mode for Windows 95-98? 

Tried installing it again? There's also a dozen tutorials on sites like gtaforum on how to fix crashes, look it up.

Well, i would reinstall, if i could acess my pc now. And compability mode i am gonna test.But it worked perfect yesterday.

Alright, now, when it minimizes i can see a program that uses a icon that is a camera with a gear next to it.

Any ideas? I actually have no idea, so i tried to remove processes, and closed down explorer.exe. Silly me. 

mmmmm If you have Windows 7 or 8! sometimes that happen. i know for Windows Vista if you go in Firewall/programs and click on DDP setting and Hit Enable adding the GTASA.exe File and any other EXE file in the Folder of GTA sa. Bam it would run smooth you would also need to run it as windows xp Service pack 2.....!!! That should fix the Crash or Not able to start issue if you have any...

mmmmm If you have Windows 7 or 8! sometimes that happen. i know for Windows Vista if you go in Firewall/programs and click on DDP setting and Hit Enable adding the GTASA.exe File and any other EXE file in the Folder of GTA sa. Bam it would run smooth you would also need to run it as windows xp Service pack 2.....!!! That should fix the Crash or Not able to start issue if you have any...

Still don't work. Trying google now.

Drr Google is the best friend you will ever have ..... Well sometimes :O

Well, it don't work... I'll try uninstalling and re install it. Hope it'll ends well.

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  *sigh*

ohh wait i know what you need to do! it should Weird but please try it! Install a no cd patch! Trust me It should solve all your issues... once you install the game! find the downgrade gta sa patch and then the no cd Crack...

 

Well, i don't wanna downgrade it and install a no cd crack, and it worked perfectly before.

You said it minimizes by itself? That's a normal thing in GTA-SA crash's, but at what point does it occur?

 

It's not a "clean install" if this is happening, GTA SA doesn't do that unless something is missing/modified.

You said it minimizes by itself? That's a normal thing in GTA-SA crash's, but at what point does it occur?

 

It's not a "clean install" if this is happening, GTA SA doesn't do that unless something is missing/modified.

Well, it was a clean install, but now when i uninstalled it and reinstall it says that gtasa.exe is not a valid win32 program. Any help?

1. Right click the gta_sa.exe file.

2. Go to "Properties".

3. Go to the "Compatibility" tab.

4. Check the box that says "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"

5. Choose "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)"

6. Check the box that says "Run this program as an administrator"

7. Click the "Apply" button.

 

 

If you still see the error, please screenshot it and attach it to your next post.

Please also include the version of GTA SA you are running (V1.1, V1.0 ,V2.0 (STEAM); US/UK, RU).

Have everything in the compatibility box checked, and running as admin, and runs on Win XP SP3. I have no idea, but it's the AO version. Bought in Sweden. Sorry for it being swedish in the screens.  

Edited January 30, 201412 yr by Officer Vic