I recently installed GTA III and a couple of things have been irritating me. First and foremost, my main problem is the freezing issue that happens when I drive into the blue circle to do Luigi's first mission, Luigi's Girls. There's no way out of this unless I CTL-ALT-DEL out and end the process. There are some minor issues as well such as the disappearing text at the menu screen and not being able to drive backwards at some parts in Portland. Here's a list of the things I've tried:
1. Updated drivers, defragged, cleaned up my computer, etc.
2. Ran the game in XP and Win98 compatibility mode
3. Patched it to 1.1 and then did the same as #2.
4. Set the gta.exe to use only one core of my dual core processor
5. Re-installed the game, but this time in Program Files instead of Program Files (x86)
And before I forget, here are my specs:
Intel E8400 C2D @3.0GHz
2x 8800GT 512MB (SLI)
4GB PC2 6400 RAM
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
I'm thinking it might be the fact that I have a 64 bit version of Vista, but I've heard that other people have played this game with no problems on Vista, so I'm at a loss. Thanks.