Hi guys, I've been getting the whole 'halting after the first splash screen' problem. Now I'm running San Andreas on Windows XP service pack 2 via boot camp on my Macbook OSX, and using MTASAdm_v1.0-dp2.3. The game runs fine in single player before and after installing the MTA SA client and i'm also able to start a MTA server.
So after checking the faqs, i tried the possible fixes they had listed for "Halt after MTA splash screen" and "Crash after MTA splash screen", (with the exception of "If you use nVidia GeForce, try turning off nView Desktop Manager before starting MTA", as although i'm pretty sure the macbook IS using a nVidia based graphics card, there is no desktop manager, and turning off the Intel media graphics accelerator yielded no responce). Experimenting with different combinations of the fixes and downloading the Directx runtime files has proved fruitless. Google has also been of no use (either no other boot camp user has had this problem, or no one has really wanted to play using xp on a mac it would seem).
So whilst i understand there may not be much that can be said or done, other than to suggest jacking it in and trying to find a pc to play it on, I thought i would put a thread up on here to see if there were any Mac savvy peeps or other boot camp users that may be able to shed some light on the problem. Anyway enough of the life story, any help would be much appreciated so i can come kill you online as soon as possible