Ah... no no no. I am able to run DXDIAG, sorry if I was a little unclear on that. The problem is that it only runs the tests -- It does not present me with the option of switching to a software buffer at all.
Again, any help would be appreciated.

OKay on both my desktops which I built to be incredible machines, GTA 3 runs awesome with no problems at even very high resolutions. However my laptop runs very choppy. Basically whenever anything major is going on like cop chases with lots of cars, sirens, firing weapons and screaming people the game lags and slows down something fierce.

Now here's the thing. I know that DMA said that Laptops aren't really "Supported" and I would normally give up here, except that at the lowest resolution, and all backround programs turned off, it used to run just fine on my laptop. It is an 1100 MHZ P4 with a Geforce II card, 512 MB RAM and 30 GB HD space. The GeForce card only has 16 MB so I assume thats why it doesnt run on a higher Res. I tried turning trails off and the draw distance way down but still I cannot get the game to run the way it used to when I first installed it.

Any suggestions? Maybe something got corrupted? Oh and I am running Windows XP, which I know kind of sucks for this game. Maybe a file got corrupted? Could there be some hidden stuff running or something even though I turn everything off in the task manager? I am considering just uninstalling it and reinstalling it to see if that helps.

What are your thoughts? THANKS

i was playing gta 3 pc i had to leave and then i when i came back my video memory went from 36 to 13 MB what happend??? it wont let me play. whats wrong? man i am dead meat. please help. i am useless with out this.

My car chugs when i drive. it goes then it sorta stops, then goes again etc.

Need a new video card? Well I got an email from Tiger direct about one for real cheap (For G4s anyways). Anyways, here it is. Geforce

I fust got the GeForece4 MX 420 64mb video card from NVIDIA and it works great I can now play on high resolution without the game being sluggish. Go here for more information.

alright chiefs.. i've heard a lot of ppl with this problem and everyone avoids it... my computer stats are ..

pentium 4
DirectX8.1
1 ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 256
blah blah blah, it just owns.
Okay, when i try to load my saved game, my cpu just freezes. What the hell can i do to fix this

I have a
Compaq 5000
1.47 amd
Savage4 AGP Graphicks card
XP but i got the patch
when i make a fire i cant see it but if i look in the far back ground i can see it, is like the layers are messed up

Does someone know whats wrong?
Please help

quote Snoffalofagus

I have a
Compaq 5000
1.47 amd
Savage4 AGP Graphicks card
XP but i got the patch
when i make a fire i cant see it but if i look in the far back ground i can see it, is like the layers are messed up

Does someone know whats wrong?
Please help

Could you be a little more specific? Do you mean when you are using a flame thrower or molotov cocktail? What do you mean by looking "in the far back ground" and being able to see it? Are your drivers all the latest versions?

quote ChiroVette

OKay on both my desktops which I built to be incredible machines, GTA 3 runs awesome with no problems at even very high resolutions. However my laptop runs very choppy. Basically whenever anything major is going on like cop chases with lots of cars, sirens, firing weapons and screaming people the game lags and slows down something fierce.

Now here's the thing. I know that DMA said that Laptops aren't really "Supported" and I would normally give up here, except that at the lowest resolution, and all backround programs turned off, it used to run just fine on my laptop. It is an 1100 MHZ P4 with a Geforce II card, 512 MB RAM and 30 GB HD space. The GeForce card only has 16 MB so I assume thats why it doesnt run on a higher Res. I tried turning trails off and the draw distance way down but still I cannot get the game to run the way it used to when I first installed it.

Any suggestions? Maybe something got corrupted? Oh and I am running Windows XP, which I know kind of sucks for this game. Maybe a file got corrupted? Could there be some hidden stuff running or something even though I turn everything off in the task manager? I am considering just uninstalling it and reinstalling it to see if that helps.

What are your thoughts? THANKS

Chiro I was doing a mod to my game today and I had just reinstalled it, and opened the GTA3 Reshack program to look for the file I was going to edit....and it didn't exist, at least not until after I had loaded the game for the first time. I think after you play the first time, some files are created or something and your problem may have something to do with that.

Anyone have the original pedstats.dat file? I want to make it so no gangs will attack me when I drive through their turf, but they will fight back if I attack them.

When I make any fire at all i can only see it sometimes or when my car catches on fire i cant tell accept that i can hear the fire. and i can only see rain sometimes also. And all my drivers are up to date.

how do you find out what version of DirectX you have?

Click on "Start"-->"run"--> Type in "dxdiag" (without the quotes), hit "OK" and wait for it to load. Now look at the bottom of the dialogue box, and you will see the DirectX Version you're running.