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| GTA 1 on laptops with Nvidia graphic cards: STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL!
INTRO
GTA 1 usually doesn't work on the laptops with Nvidia graphic cards (series 8). The game starts normally but when the city loads the screen looks all messed up. Fortunately THERE IS A SOLUTION for this problem! You need to run the game in a virtual machine to make it work. Because it's not so simple and could take you some time to make it work I decided to write a STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL. So, here we go ...
SET-UP (do it just the first time, it takes up to 2 hours)
- burn GTA 1 on a CD and eject it
- download and install Microsoft Virtual PC
- lunch Microsoft Virtual PC and create New Virtual Machine: *specify the amount of ram by yourself! (do not leave custom settings)
- insert Windows XP with unique or cracked serial number
- start Virtual Machine you have just made
- click CD > Use Physical Drive E:
- click Action > Reset
- install Windows XP
- eject CD with Windows
- click Action > Install Virtual Machine Additions and follow the instructions
- insert CD with GTA 1 and install (or copy) it on harddisc
- make a shortcut of the game on the desktop of the Virtual Machine
- close your Virtual Machine and select Turn off
- select your Virtual Machine and click Settings
- click Display and check boxes: Hide vm menu bar, hide vm status bar and select Use only standard resolution
- close Virtual PC Console
- copy a shortcut of Microsoft Virtual PC on the Desktop (from the Start menu>Programs)
START THE GAME (do it every time you want to start the game, it takes up to 2 minutes)
- right-click on your Taskbar, check Lock Taskbar and remove taskbar from the display (so there will be more space for your GTA screen)
- lunch Microsoft Virtual PC from Desktop, select your Virtual Machine and click start (and wait until Windows loads)
- lunch GTA shortcut, enter the cheats and enjoy
* enlarge Virtual Machine screen when the city loads (if you got standard 4:3 screen, you can even try it full-screen)
* to exit the game just close the Virtual machine window and select Save state
FINAL THOUGHTS
Firstly, if anyone knows a better and faster way to make GTA1 work on laptops with Nvidia graphic cards, please let us know! Post it in some GTA1 forum and GTA community will be very thankful! This solution is just provisional, so it will be nice to know a better way to solve the basic problem.
I heve been searching for a solution for a long time. I finally got it work thanks to Delfi, who adviced me to try Virtual Machine (hvala, jernej!). In my opinion is GTA1 one of the best games ever released so I decided to write the tutorial to help others with the same problem. And there's another thing: if you run GTA1 in a VM, you can save the last state of the game. An interesting thing, though. |
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