MTA Crashes. Nvidia new driver related.

[packolnikov]

Hey everyone.

I'm a regular player of MTA, never got a problem before.

I just updated my driver of Nvidia (I have a Geforce 9600GT) and all other games works fine except GTA:SA and of course MTA, both seems to start and, like always, change to "basic colours of windows 7" but then it returns to the normal aero theme and the process is like eliminated.

The version of the driver is 266.58 for Win7x64

Anyone have this problem?

[packolnikov]

BTW I also uninstalled GTA and MTA, then reinstalled both. And for no good.

[Towncivilian]

I don't know whether it's specifically an issue with the new driver because I very rarely play MTA:SA, but you can try reverting to the previous WHQL 260.99 driver to see if it fixes the issue. If it does, then you're obviously nailed the new driver as the cause.

[MastarVs]

I have the same problem but i have a ATI and didn't update it. But it don't works at school and at my girlfriend but at my own house it worked yesterday? So i dont realy get what the problem is. Maybe Network connection or something but that would nothing do with the singleplayer of GTA:SA where i have the same problem:(

[packolnikov]

Thanks a lot for the link Towncivilian! I'll try it right away

[MastarVs]

Please say when it works i will try it also then:)

[packolnikov]

Seems like the problem persist

I had a not so old driver, I'm gonna try with that one and tell you what happen.

[Towncivilian]

Okay.

Could you also provide a dxdiag report? Press the Windows key + R, type dxdiag, press Enter, click Save all information... and post the contents of the saved log here within Code tags.

[Towncivilian]

Oh, duh, forgot to mention. Try deleting gta_sa.set in the GTA San Andreas User Files folder of your Documents library.

[packolnikov]

Oh, duh, forgot to mention. Try deleting gta_sa.set in the GTA San Andreas User Files folder of your Documents library.

Dude, I own you my entertaining! Seems like erasing "gta_sa.set" solved the problem

Can I ask, just for knowing, what does that file contain?

Thanks a lot, btw

EDIT: Since the newer version of the driver wasn't the problem, I reinstalled the latest version, the 266.58 for Win7x64.

[Towncivilian]

The gta_sa.set file contains all of the settings (video/audio/controls/language) for the game.