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Game Forum / Action Games / Grand Theft Auto / July 2007VC: delay after save reload
Hi Guys. I¨m about 62% complete with VC. I have purchased all properties there is to buy, and currently I decided to halt with the storyline and concentrate in mopping up the details, like Jumps and Hidden Packages. BUT. Out of nowhere, the game started acting up. Where before, loading a savegame would put me into action in few seconds, now I am stuck with grey screen for _many_ minutes before letting me into the game. The same happens when I jump the ramps - screen goes into the "fly-by slow-motion" mode as before, but after landing, it does not go back to normal view as it should, but only after a period of couple minutes !! Needless to say, this makes it impossible to handle consecutive jumps, and quite possible keeps me from obtaining 100% completion. (and no, I have not used cheat codes, ever) I read somewhere that save slot at Car Dealership can corrupt the save file - can anybody tell if this might be the cause for my problem ? And how to work around it? Or am I just royally screwed?? :) Cheers, Rudi >Hi Guys. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >Or am I just royally screwed?? :) Yes, royally screwed. You are experiencing a bug that occurs in both VC and III. There is no known fix except to load a previous save. You do know that you should keep a couple of saves that you alternate between, don't you? If not, welcome to the really fun part of the GTA series. You will have to start the game over if this is your only save. Out of desparation you might want to try deleting the gta_vc.set file which contains hardware configuration info. VC will recreate the file and you can set your own config options when you run the program. The file is found: C:\Documents and Settings\<your name here>\My Documents\GTA Vice City User Files\gta_vc.set This fixes some problems but I didn't find that it helped much with this problem. Your situation my be different. Good luck and best wishes. OK Thanks for your answer. I do (did) rotate my savegames, but unfortunately I have saved my progress so frequently that all the saves are having this same bug (took me almost two hours to cycle all saves, the delays were already so bad). So I guess it is back to square one.... :( Cheers, Rudi. ps. From the text at the link, it seems that the corrupt save slot is in fact Cherry Poppers. Yes, i do own that and have saved there. I Must remember to leave that to last next time I play the game. >Yes, royally screwed. You are experiencing a bug that occurs in both >VC and III. There is no known fix except to load a previous save. You >do know that you should keep a couple of saves that you alternate >between, don't you? If not, welcome to the really fun part of the GTA >series. You will have to start the game over if this is your only >save. > I read somewhere that save slot at Car Dealership can > corrupt the save file - can anybody tell if this might be the > cause for my problem ? And how to work around it? It's actually the Cherry Poppers ice cream factory, all the others are fine. They were supposed to have fixed it on the PC version though. You might have no other option than to reload an earlier save. Cheers, Rob  Signature.__ __ |__ |__ .|__ __ | Rob White, Half Man Half Biscuit. | / \| \ | | || ||| /__\ | robthemod@googlemail.com | \__/|__/ |_|_|| |||__\___ | Wimbledon, London, England. "Do sugar cubes have dots or is that a dice I just put in my tea?" To the world you are somebody, but to somebody you are the world. > BUT. Out of nowhere, the game started acting up. Where before, > loading a savegame would put me into action in few seconds, now [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > does not go back to normal view as it should, but only after a period > of couple minutes !! Someone else posted about this sort of thing some time ago, but there didn't seem to be any definite cause or a solution, other that starting over or using an older save. The thread is at <http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.grand-theft-auto/browse_thread/thread/a 634fd5b297441da/> > BUT. Out of nowhere, the game started acting up. Where before, > loading a savegame would put me into action in few seconds, now > I am stuck with grey screen for _many_ minutes before letting me into > the game. Never got that one. > The same happens when I jump the ramps - screen goes > into the "fly-by slow-motion" mode as before, but after landing, it > does not go back to normal view as it should, but only after a period > of couple minutes !! This, on the other hand, started when I got a GeForce 6200TC to my system. Deleting the settings file so it'd be recreated didn't help, nor did starting a completely new game. :/ [moving my existing saves elsewhere, of course] Signature"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W. Bush [August 5th, 2004] |
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