Can anyone help me with GTA Vice City?

[tjr1973]

I recently upgraded my video card from a GeForce Ti4600 to an ATI 9800XT. I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows. Latest drivers and Direct X is new. Here's the prob...the game ran smooth and looked great with the Ti and now it's choppy and crappy looking. Is there something about this game that my new card doesn't like? I did what GTA's web site said to do (Disk Defragmentation, turned on Vertical Synch, etc) and it still is choppy. I also replaced my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card with a Creative labs Audigy LS. I experimented with all the sound settings with no results. If anyone can steer me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks.

[alien76]

Do you have AA and FSAA enabled in video drivers???

[dartor]

I have a 9800 Pro and if I turn frame limiter on in GTA it gets choppy. Other than that it should have no prob. I have AA and AF settings at max and vysnc off in the control panel.

BTW my rig is a 1gig Athlon on a KT7A with a SB live. I'm at work right now but can get you the exact settings later today.

Hope this helps

[tjr1973]

AA and FSAA are both on application preference. System is an Intel Pentium IV 2.5 with 512 M PC 800 RDRam. The game actually seems to run better the higher I crank the settings on the card but it's still choppy. I will check the frame limiter dartor, I can't remember what it's set on. I would appreciate any info on your settings dartor. Thanks.

[Mustanley]

Had this problem myself. You need to delete the file named "gta_vc.set" which is likely located in

\My Documents\GTA Vice City User Files\

That holds all the option settings. After deleting the file, run the game and then adjust your video settings again. After that I'll bet everything will be kosher.

[dartor]

Not sure if Mustanley's advice helped ya, but here is what I am running.

In control panel
AA= 6x
AF= 16x
AF method= quality
texture= high
mipmap= high
vsync= application
truform= always off

In game
frame limiter= off
wide screen= off
resolution= 1024x768

As I said it runs smooth as silk. Hope this helps.:cool: