Problem when starting up MTA

[Guest]

When I start MTA it says use direction to gta_sa.exe, first time it says not found, second time it finds it but I get an error message, anyone feeling helpfull?

[Jani]

Really retarded question, do you actually have Grand Theft Auto San Andreas installed?

[Guest]

Why is that retarded?

Yes I have SA, why the hell would I be stupid enough to download MTA if I didn't have SA?That is retarted, I agree, but now when I have it, help me instead of just being rude.

[Jani]

There are an unsurprising amount of people who post the same problem on this board and they don't realise they actually have to have GTASA installed.

And your summary of the problem wasn't exactly detailed..."the second time I get an error"...well telling us what the error was would probably have helped a great deal since there's actually NOTHING we can do about "I get an error".

[Guest]

Well, since I live in sweden, it's in swedish, but it's the classic one with "The game is not answering, send report or send not", know what I mean?

[Jani]

Yes. How long ago did you buy the game? It's possible you have bought the 2nd version of the game, which is imcompatible with MTA because of changes that R* have made to it. However, there is an exe downgrader in this section somewhere (pinned I think) which you can use.

[Guest]

Well, it was a very long time ago, around when it came to sweden I think, so I belive I wouldn't have the 2nd, but I can try, thanks for the help.

[Guest]

Nope, didn't work.Any other ideas?

[Jani]

Do you have any other mods installed like car mods, texture mods etc? MTA won't work if you do.

[Guest]

Nope.Only the normal SA.

[erorr404]

Try re-installing MTA.

[Guest]

I belive I've done that 4 times now.