Grand Theft Auto III won't start.

[Kartolus]

So, most recently I installed a GTA III on my Windows 10. Everytime I try to launch it, the game asks me to use admin privileges. When I do it nothing happens. Can you help me with that? I really want to play this classic one more time.

[TechNoirJacRabbit]

try to go into properties, and change the compatibility to either windows xp or 98.

[Kartolus]

That doesn't help. The game feels like it wants to start (screen flashes a few times) but still cannot be launched.

[TechNoirJacRabbit]

Try to verify the game cache that might help. I just installed it, and I'm using Windows 10 pro, and it started for me, the only issue i had was that the menu is invisible and I need to move the mouse around before the menu appears

[TechNoirJacRabbit]

Enable Frame Limiter too so you wont have that invisible screen in the menu.

[Kartolus]

That could be very helpful, but my game is a non Steam version. Do you know how to verify game cache without Steam? Thanks.

[TechNoirJacRabbit]

I am unsure how to do that unfortunately outisde of the steam version, but did your version of the game install DirectX?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

That might help if that wasn't installed onto your computer when you installed the game.