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Pursuit of Happyness has Grand Theft Auto 2

Jul 4, 2017 @ 3:44am

GTA 2 NOT OPENNING IN WINDOWS 10?

Hello, i have recently tried to open the game, it shows in friend status that it opened for a second then closes and nothing shows in the process task manager.

Any help regarding how to operate?

Thanks

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Mickie Knox Jul 7, 2017 @ 3:53pm

Wondering the same thing, click play in steam and it doesn't do anything, tried to open from the file folders and just says Application Error

Mini Cheddars has Grand Theft Auto 2

Jul 9, 2017 @ 6:07am

mine dont open.!!

Eqnx8TH

Aug 3, 2017 @ 6:55am

I can not start the game, I get this message: "Unable to open file:/player/plyslot0.dat"

Exterminator has Grand Theft Auto 2

Aug 27, 2017 @ 1:37am

Hi all,

to solve this you need to enable Direct play inside Legacy Components in windows 10.

To do this open control pannel > Programs and featurs > Turn windows features on or off.

Within there you will see Legacy Components which contains the option for direct play.

Once this is installed the game still wont load because it only supports 16Bit colour - which windows 10 does not natively allow you to use. So forget about opening GTA 2 from steam.

You need to navigate to the location GTA is installed which on my system is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto 2" but on yours it could be different. Use the steam client to find yours...

Within the GTA 2 install directory locate both Executables. GTA Manager and GTA, on both right click and select compatability, within there you have the option to "reduce the colour mode" change it down to 16Bit and the game should run.

On my system im not sure if its another issue or not but I needed to run in window mode not full screen.

Hope it helps you guys.

And remember "Respect is everything"

Dead Man Maven has Grand Theft Auto 2

Aug 28, 2017 @ 3:59pm

Hey Exterminator, appreciate the post and the work around, especially since I wanted to give it a good play.

Eqnx8TH

Aug 31, 2017 @ 3:01pm

Not run, I get this message: "Unable to open file:/player/plyslot0.dat"

krashd

Sep 19, 2017 @ 9:23am

Originally posted by Eqnx8TH:
Not run, I get this message: "Unable to open file:/player/plyslot0.dat"

Then either that folder or file is read only or it's missing, just verify your steam cache for GTA2 and then make sure the folders and files are not locked. Google if you need to find out how, because I'm not going to explain to a PC user how to use a PC.

TheBigJar20 Oct 20, 2017 @ 2:48pm

Hello all,

Exterminator, i tried what you suggested and i got further along then just messing around myself. My new issue is that i have everything the same for GTA2 and the manager but not i get an error message that says "videomode 16x16x16 is not avaliable". Any ideas? i have windows 10 but i installed it from a disc from back in the day.

Thank you all!!

Exterminator has Grand Theft Auto 2

Oct 22, 2017 @ 3:17pm

likely if u installed from a disk, it wont have some potential patches / updates that the steam version has. Steam versions at times have compatability opions / updates disk versions wont especially as this game was released so long ago.