Masked Marauder

$116.00 later for a new video card and problem solved; so it seems. I am SO glad that I quit buying higher end stuff some time ago because this stuff just seems to puke on demand. My previous card was only a year and a half old for pity sake! Had a USB controller that did the same thing recently. I told the salesman that if I crashed my car into a tree that, yeah, there could be something wrong here. But stuff like graphics cards and what not it's just "POOF!" done. Running XP SP 3 cuz Vista blows and I was too late for the 7 upgrade.

Guess I learned something. What you are looking for should be in here: http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/topic/9134-downgrade-sa-v2-%26gt%3B-v1/

As Bokonon tells us: A lover's a liar, To himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes! I had to think on that one a bit for it to register. If I interpret Bokonon correctly: people in love are liars but the loveless are honest, with themselves and others, but the loveless have clouded vision? ... and why do my posts keep displaying html markup like line breaks and crap? Or is that part of being able to edit posts made with the full editor? Just looks kind of weird like I am doing something wrong or whatever.

Are you sure that it is because you have version 2? Or is your gta3.img archive set to "Read Only" or something? I could be a little SA ignorant, but I have never heard of this problem before.

After cleaning house, and updating anything and everything that I could possibly think of, I now suspect that I just have a crappy CD ROM drive. Great, mo' money shot to unholy... hello everybody! Remove this topic if you wish, Moderation.

Well, I'm a newb compared to you vets of the site. One of my first impressions of TGTAP was that is more active than other sites that I have bounced around in, yet a mere shadow of days gone by. As others have already pointed out, this is the "hoo-hum" period between 4 and 5. Yet we die-hard GTA gamers always yearn for something new and exciting to hold our collective interest in the meantime. Rockstar kind of helped with that with all of the sub-releases between III and IV: Vice City, San Andreas, etc. It has also been pointed out that IV is pretty much "unmodable". What has held my interest for quite some time is making mods for Vice City. I enjoy it and regard uploading mods for others to use as my own small way of helping to satisfy that "something new" craving (mostly with sexy women) until V becomes a reality. The forums are important, of course, but try to bring more attention to the modding aspect of GTA. Mods could be the most abundant supply of "what's new" to draw from in order to keep interest alive in these older GTAs while we wait for V. Mods could also inspire more discussion in the forums as well. Incorporate your reward and/or competition possibilities with it as well if you believe that it could help. And/or a "what's new", "what's hot", "mod of the week, month, year" feature as well; or whatever else comes to mind. Posted feedback/comments directly on individual mod pages for window shoppers to read and add to would definitely be a plus; if your server is capable. Yup, I am a modder; more so that a forum poster, so sure I am a little biased I suppose. But mods could be the temporary something new during this down time... give people something to talk about.

I have this recurring problem with Vice City crashing. Sometimes within only a minute or two of playing. Sometimes I get the "unhandled exception" error, but not very often; more or less expected once in a while. Sometimes it pukes, I go to the desktop, annoying Dr. Watson tells me that VC has a problem (really?) and needs to close. But the really strange crashes are when my whole system seems to take a dump. Even the monitor gets no signal and I end up having to hit the kill switch and do a hard restart. The BIOs gets all pissy because the clock settings are all screwed up, blah blah blah. This happened twice within about 60 seconds of playing. Then I started VC a third time the same way as always. But this time after I loaded the same save file then entered the same cheat codes as always with a certain trainer I tabbed out, closed the trainer, and had a non-stop kill fest against the cops until I got tired of it. So I am wondering if this trainer is making my machine take a painful crap all of the time and if anyone else has had a similar problem? My machine is all up to snuff: processor, drivers, monitor, video card, hard drive scanned for errors and defragged, buckets of RAM, store bought copy of the game, no patches, and no mods that make major overhauls. Any input would be appreciated. I was starting to think that maybe the game crashes because it can not find a way to get me killed, busted, or even shot. But that could not be it... or could it? Thanks, Masked Marauder

I don't have San Andreas installed right now, but the Los Santos prostitute who says something like: "I don't do girl-girl titty man!" if CJ is really fat.

This topic is a year old with half a dozen replies? Oh well, something for a newb like myself to add to. I went with the Stinger. Mid-size, fast, good handling, light, low center of gravity, and if nothing else: convertible. Kind of resembles a '60s Corvette. Sure a Rhino rocks, but it's the only tank that can be flipped upside down by hitting a moped or a flimsy barricade.

{spoiler} I did not know for years that the Dodo was even flyable for more than 4 seconds. Then I got hell bent to get that last hidden package SOMEHOW before starting any missions and without cheats. So I poked around and quickly found out that all kinds of people were flying damn thing! Watched some video, read a few tutors, and I think after 2 maybe 3 hours total of screwing around I got the hang of it enough to fly to the top of the drawbridge and get the package.

Problem solved yet?

I have heard of, but have yet to see, the submarine. Have even seen it listed in the img archive. Yesterday I accidentally found a caddy hidden in the trees by the lighthouse. I was walking and shooting everything in sight and something exploded. I went back later to double-check and there it was. Never knew it was there. Of course, not much reason to hang out at the lighthouse in the first place so, that could explain it.

There is a difference between who people are "attracted" to, and who they "want". Attractions are all around us, easier to find, and, dare I say, the most prevalent of relationships. Who you truly want will be much more challenging; in the grand scheme of things, maybe not even realistically possible. If you are unselfish, how can you want someone for yourself? There is a term referred to as "falling in love". If you fall, it is an accident. You did not plan it and were not expecting it. And I would suspect that, like a fall, for most people it is an instantaneous attraction. If there is someone that you truly want, work for her. If you want to fall in love, then probably don't try so hard. It will happen. And yet, you can't trip and fall if your not even on the sidewalk. Bah! What do I know? Love stinks.

I have Candy Suxxx from Vice City converted to III but... there is a bit of snag. All was going well but for the love of everything unholy I can NOT get her blankity blank blankin' arms positioned correctly! No matter what I do or try, no matter how correctly she looks in two different model editors, her arms will absolutely positively NOT position right in the game. Centering, rotating, parenting, global, local, I've tried it all. Perhaps now that I have left her alone for I while I should try some more attempts.....

Are you using Audio Editor by LithJoe? If so after the first file is replaced you have to type or copy/paste the name of the next file that you want to replace in the field yourself. Stumped me for a bit too when I first tried it out.

Greetings GTA Place Peoples. I seem to be on a mission to make a female player character for Vice City; perhaps the first, I am not sure. Why? I don't know, why not? Chicks can be criminals too. Besides, they are more pleasing to the eyes. Well, to mine at least. Anyway, I have edited and converted bucket-loads of sexy female models for Vice City and recently have begun editing the in-game player animations to be more feminine in appearance. Now for (hopefully) the last major overhaul to get done: swapping female audio files with the default in-game Tommy Vercetti files. Swapping them is not the problem, I can get that done easily enough when I take the time to do it. What I would like help with is deciding which female character would be the best to choose from, from Vice City or San Andreas. Preferably a character that works well with any race of the younger default Vice City female characters. Like an old lady from Red County probably would not fit very well with a young babe in a bikini. Choose the one that you think would work the best or be the most practical, not necessarily your favorite, and why. Try to consider all of the aspects of the in-game audio: like getting hurt, fighting, talking smack, getting busted, driving, etc. Keep in mind that the cut-scene and mission specific dialogue will not be affected, just the in-game audio. It would really help me out if Vice City gamers could give me some feedback/input about this because I just can't seem to decide who to choose from. Plus it is a lot of work to swap audio files so that they make sense in the game and I do not wish to start over and over because I chose one that just would not work. Much thanks, Masked Marauder

I tend to take the manual route, that way I have a better idea of what is being added and where it is being added to, which is handy to know for possible debugging or resolving conflicts. Sure it is a little more work and takes a little time, but it is worth it to me in the long run to know what's what. I have seen threads with gamers having problems, or possible problems, with VCMM but I have no experience with GTA Mod Installer. Any mod installer will only be as good as the scripting/coding that makes it work.

Can't hurt to try, but actually I have had the opposite happen. I hardly ever bother to rebuild the VC archive because I am always switching player models for testing, plus if it ain't broke don't fix it. One of the few times that I did rebuild it I right away noticed that some ped textures had disappeared (were white). I just had to replace them and all was well. I use IMG Tool 2.0 and just chalk it up to "stuff happens" I guess.

Mods may cause that problem, especially if they add objects to the game. The game saves object locations in all save files. If the number of objects in the game is changed, and then a previous save file is loaded, the engine can't make sense of it all and may make a "best guess" on where to start; if it does not just crash or lock up instead. A modded main.scm is a likely culprit.

Some days too many, other days not enough. Overall, from day 1 since I first ever played it until today, has to be in the tens of thousands; maybe even into the hundreds of thousands. My own personal venting rampages could last into the hours sometimes. Ironically enough, sometimes they would start because a ped dove in front of my car and got killed when I was trying my best to avoid them! I blame it on Rockstar.

Okay, well good deal if you can make it work. Compared to the long-time members I guess that I would be a "noob" myself (still finding my way around), so I do not know much about new award boxes and such things; they do look spiffy though. But something for modding could perhaps give the site, current modders, and possible beginners a sort of shot in the arm so to speak. Thank you for your prompt response.

Hello Site Peoples. This is more of a "just thinking out loud" site suggestion than anything. Anyway, I consider myself to be more of a mod maker than forum poster and was wondering if uploading approved mods could be used as a "member title" boost; or as a separate ranking altogether? Truth is it doesn't really hurt my feelings one way or another, but it did seem kind of strange to have over a dozen mods uploaded and still be titled a "nobody special". It would give site members a bit more credibility who are more active mod authors than topic posters. I suppose the idea would be too difficult to implement with factoring in the number of approved mods, mod ratings, number of downloads, etc; especially with automated servers and such. Hence the "wishful thinking" aspect of this topic. Still, 'twould be nice.

Right here: http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/topic/5959-sa-modding-guide/

I guess that this isn't too big of a bump. I think that I have needed to vent some of this stuff for a loooong time anyway. There are actually a few things that just piss me off to no end about III, mostly involving overall game play. Probably the worst it the fact that there are cops EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE, but they never go after the gangs that are walking down down the street shooting at whoever they please. It would have more of a sense of realism if the cops had more of a purpose than just going after the player, and it would just make more sense period. There is nothing like getting into a fight for your player's life with the cops and gangs working together side by side as a team to eliminate you. The next thing would have to be "pop up spawning". Cops, cars, gangs, pedestrians - everything pops up just out of camera view or directly behind. Even if you "look first" before making a move, as soon as you do: "whoop! there it is!". I just hate hate hate hate HATE that! Whew, I feel better now, a little bit. Thanks for listening.

I had a similar thing happen but when playing III. I had turned the frame limiter off and my character would fall down dead after taking a few steps. Sometimes my character would launch straight out from the first safe-house door and shoot all of the way across the street. Fortunately I had already read that the FPS limiter was touchy thing to try and mess with, so I promptly turned it back on.