I recently decided to get this brilliant game on my PC after I had not played it in years and I no longer owned a PS2.

Installation went perfectly, no problems. The game launches and I can play. One Issue I have noticed is I don't have any road textures at all.

A quick google search found that its a problem with switchable graphics which I've got on my laptop. If I launch the game on my High-Performace GPU (Radeon), I don't get the road textures yet my FPS is above 60.

Yet, if I launch it on my power-saving GPU (Intel chip), I get the road textures but my FPS stay's around 20-25.

Surely there's a way to get these road textures working on my Radeon? I really want to play this game again but driving on thin air will eventually piss me off.

Any help is appreciated. I'm on Windows 7 64bit

EDIT: Not my video, but this is exactly the issue I'm having:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2bO7EOsYzc

Edited August 19, 201213 yr by Harper

Man i haven't seen this game in a few years :P

I think this game is setup horribly, sometimes, similar issues like this happen on the PS2.

Man i haven't seen this game in a few years :P

I think this game is setup horribly, sometimes, similar issues like this happen on the PS2.

Rockstar warned us about it with their "True Grime" in San Andreas:P

I spent ages trying to sort this issue out myself, there is no real solution sadly.

The games pretty much doomed not to work properly with most ATI cards.

A lot of people point towards Windows 7, but there is plenty of people with Windows 7 who have the game running just fine, usually Nvidia Cards

I have been incredibly lucky with my latest ATI purchase in that true Crime NYC actually works with it ( 7970 ), but neither my 6850 or 5770 would display the road textures in any driver versions.

If it helps, I'm currently on driver version 12.6 and it works with my 7970.

Edited August 19, 201213 yr by kevmscotland

Did you get it running?

You've inspired me to play it again also, on xbox. I'm having fun.

We're probably the only two people on this planet to be playing this game lol.

Edited August 20, 201213 yr by Original Light

Did you get it running?

You've inspired me to play it agian also, on xbox. I'm having fun.

We're probably the only two people on this planet to be playing this game lol.

It runs perfectly on PC, I just don't have road textures

This game brings back some good old memories lol, I loved playing it on the Playstation 2 that was the beginning of police role playing for me,

If you want to run it normal bad enough, you could always get it for xbox. Hell, you could probably get both the game and the xbox for under $30. But if you're fine playing with no roads, then it's better to save money.

I love the Crown Vics in this game. They combined them just like GTA IV did with the Vapids.

The headlights and tailights look like a 98-11, the grille looks like a Mercury Gran Marquis, and the tallights are slightly modified. With the hazards, reverse, and brake lights all put together. The body looks like a 98-2011 Crown Vic.

Edited August 20, 201213 yr by Original Light

This game brings back some good old memories lol, I loved playing it on the Playstation 2 that was the beginning of police role playing for me,

same here xD

i spend ages arresting dudes...

what i loved was the ability to put evidence on people if they didn't had anything on them lol. i always did that with black people

(no just kiding xD)

by doing that your "bad cop" points where raising xD

Also great:

one time i was in one of those tourist shops where they sell those liberty statues and a guy with an Automatic weapon came in..

i really miss those things in gta. Those random kind of events would make the game much better