GTA: Vice City Not Working (FIXED)

[Adzinho]

Are you having that issue when you want to play you going in to library and go to GTA-VC and want to shoot peoples heads off with a sniper and see how many stars you can accumulate, then you press play and the 2 seconds later it just stopped (not even loaded at all) and you get pissed off as to why the heck it isn't working. Hopefully this can be the fix for you!!!

Now i'm sure that most of you all have/had the same issue as me and it wasn't working!!!

I just recently went through the whole process of contacting Rockstar asking what the issue can be. they went on to saying make sure everything is disabled and no programmes conflicting with Steam or Rockstar games launcher, so i did all that and it never worked!

Next they said to uninstall the Rockstar games launcher and reinstall it, so i did that and again never worked! So i thought to myself why not just try to uninstall and reinstall steam again and install Vice City again, as you can guess by now the way the whole story is going it didn't BLOODY WORK!!! haha

Now onto the fix that most of you may be experiencing!

What you want to do its go into the games library and right click on Vice City

Click on properties and and go to local files and then browse (It'll take you to the main folder for Vice City)

Once it is open you see the application file gta-vc, right click and go to properties.

On the tabs at the top go to compatibility, once on there at the bottom press 'change settings for all users'

For this part you want to tick compatibility mode and open the drop down menu to windows 98/windows me

After you have done that go to settings just under that and tick the 'run in 640x480 screan resolution' once all that is done press apply and then ok.

Now close all that and and open the application in the local folder.

ENJOY PLAYING!!!!

I hope this was useful for the people who were experiencing the same problem as me, thanks for reading.

[Internalized Bigotry]

you could've also set compatibility mode to Windows XP

[Dkorador]

thanks

[DeathBySnuSnu Doantek Vauntetto]

I just tried this and every other compatibility option and nothing worked. I even tried the Nexus mod for it, still nothing. I'm using Windows 10 on an HP Envy Laptop with all my drivers and everything up to date.

[Dkorador]

for me yes worked in windows 10

[ModerNertum]

Originally posted by Doantek Snusnu Vauntetto:

I just tried this and every other compatibility option and nothing worked. I even tried the Nexus mod for it, still nothing. I'm using Windows 10 on an HP Envy Laptop with all my drivers and everything up to date.

It is weird yes. How some multi-core PCs can run the game in a very smooth way and others struggle with it and this is not even the worse steam port on the GTA series. My PC is just an average PC for gaming (terrible for recent games but more than enough to run older titles).
And every old title I want to play and throw at it it will run the title just fine. My PC can handle all the mass effect trilogy games at high settings and with all DLC and those are graphically somewhat demanding games at that setting. This is to say this is weird how older games can reject PCs better than mine and not others. I guess it is better we know what kind of error you are getting so maybe we can help.
Like why the game is failling, does it just wont start?
Does it start and crash right away?
Can you play but get game crashes?

Those are 3 questions and the possible solutions may be different for all of them. This is why it is important we know what kind of crash you are experiencing

[DeathBySnuSnu Doantek Vauntetto]

Basically crash on start. No warnings, no nothing.

[ModerNertum]

Originally posted by Doantek Snusnu Vauntetto:

Basically crash on start. No warnings, no nothing.

That is most weird. Your PC should handle the game I think. If you have windows 10 64 bits you can try patch the .exe to accept 4GB RAM

But first you may try replacing your gta-vc.exe executable with the testapp.exe one. Sometimes it may happen that the original gta-vc.exe steam installs is incomplete and the testapp.exe is the correct complete executable

To replace the executable:
-Go to the folder where you have GTA VC installed
-Look for a file named testapp.exe
-Move that file anywhere outside the folder (Desktop, for example, where you can retrieve it later)
-Rename the file gta-vc.exe to testapp.exe
-Rename the file outside the folder of your GTA VC installation to gta-vc.exe
-Now put that newly renamed gta-vc.exe inside the folder of your GTA VC installation
-Try to launch GTA VC and see if you are still getting the same result

To patch the executable (recommended for x64 systems, not so much for x86):
-Search the internet for a 4GB patch tool (Largeaddress)
-The most common are the one made by Silent (for the GTA trilogy) or made by Daniel (for .exe files in general)
-Regardless of which one you use the instructions will be similar (either it will be a small tool program or a harmless command line prompt)
-Now patch the main .exe for gta-vc to accept more RAM
- The tool should automatically create a backup of your old .exe file in case you want to retrieve it (do not delete that file as it is a BAK or BACKUP file of your .exe file, which means just remove those 2 file extensions after deleting the newly patched file if you which to remove the patch)

Let me know if this works

[DeathBySnuSnu Doantek Vauntetto]

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

Originally posted by Doantek Snusnu Vauntetto:

Basically crash on start. No warnings, no nothing.

That is most weird. Your PC should handle the game I think. If you have windows 10 64 bits you can try patch the .exe to accept 4GB RAM

But first you may try replacing your gta-vc.exe executable with the testapp.exe one. Sometimes it may happen that the original gta-vc.exe steam installs is incomplete and the testapp.exe is the correct complete executable

To replace the executable:
-Go to the folder where you have GTA VC installed
-Look for a file named testapp.exe
-Move that file anywhere outside the folder (Desktop, for example, where you can retrieve it later)
-Rename the file gta-vc.exe to testapp.exe
-Rename the file outside the folder of your GTA VC installation to gta-vc.exe
-Now put that newly renamed gta-vc.exe inside the folder of your GTA VC installation
-Try to launch GTA VC and see if you are still getting the same result

Sadly that didn't work and I have an x86 Windows 10, sadly. lol

[ModerNertum]

Originally posted by Doantek Snusnu Vauntetto:

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

That is most weird. Your PC should handle the game I think. If you have windows 10 64 bits you can try patch the .exe to accept 4GB RAM

But first you may try replacing your gta-vc.exe executable with the testapp.exe one. Sometimes it may happen that the original gta-vc.exe steam installs is incomplete and the testapp.exe is the correct complete executable

To replace the executable:
-Go to the folder where you have GTA VC installed
-Look for a file named testapp.exe
-Move that file anywhere outside the folder (Desktop, for example, where you can retrieve it later)
-Rename the file gta-vc.exe to testapp.exe
-Rename the file outside the folder of your GTA VC installation to gta-vc.exe
-Now put that newly renamed gta-vc.exe inside the folder of your GTA VC installation
-Try to launch GTA VC and see if you are still getting the same result

Sadly that didn't work and I have an x86 Windows 10, sadly. lol

I am sorry to hear. GTA VC should run for you even if your windows 10 is 32 bits.
Maybe your antivirus software or windows firewall are causing the issue. Have you tried whitelisting GTA Vice City for them? It is unknown why they do this to games since they are not harmful to the system (even if the game is legitimately yours). But the fact is they do and sometimes may interfere in very neferous ways (like blocking the game from running and so crash on startup)

[Dkorador]

mee too is x86 and worked :P

[DeathBySnuSnu Doantek Vauntetto]

Still not working. x.x;

[ModerNertum]

Do you have the file d3d8.dll present in your game installation folder?

[zsharif3]

hell out not working vice city

[Stuart]

Use this on a fresh install n if you decide to remove it, uninstall and delete the mods from the install folder https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=706270825

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