I played San Andreas for a little while but then it crashed and auto-rebooted the computer as I was being chased the first time I met up with the gang. After it auto-rebooted Microsoft Anti-spyware noticed the following change to my system:
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A startup value (Symantec NetDriver Monitor:C:\PROGRA~1\SYMNET~1\SNDMon.exe /Consumer) has been granted permission to be added to your startup registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Microsoft AntiSpyware has determined this program to be free of known spyware.
Why on earth would this happen? Is this usual for Norton's Antivirus to act this way?
I am using the language fix for GTASA. I will try the original Hoodlum crack and let you know if I still get the crash etc.
Now it looks like a simple crash and Norton's was just reacting to the computer auto-rebooting.
This game is extremely sensitive and should not be auto-rebooting. No other game crashes or auto-reboots for me like this one does. My system is very stable usually, thank god.
Here is what I did to stop the auto-rebooting :
- In DXdiag I turned down the sound acceleration to "Basic acceleration". I suspect that this was the fix because I use onboard sound chip and although it generally works fine with most games I noticed with San Andreas there were sound pops at the end of each line of dialog. I think it is related to the fact that the sound chip does not seem to have a proper hardware buffer or the game did not like my Nvidia nforce sound driver.
Update: I just found this in another thread so it does seem related to Nforce motherboard/onboard sound/Nvidia Nforce drivers:
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if you have a nforce motherboard and you are using the onboard sound change the audio driver to the latest beta or the realtek alternative.. this solved my blue screen reset problem
So the conclusion is if you have Nforce motherboard or have a board with a Realtek sound chip then change your drivers OR lower the acceleration setting with DXDiag.
Cheers, got it working properly now. The random reboots on both the MDETH and Hoodlum versions got so annoying I started playing the Xbox release instead, but the Realtek driver installation finally solved the problem.
Lopin18 wrote:
I think you played too much Fallout 3, Pedo Perk acquired.
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