Q: can't play games in MS-XP Home (does nothing)

M

MarkD

Using Office XP Home on an emachines install (don't get me
started...)

I just bought Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I was able to
install GTA, but when I try to start the game, it spins
the CD for a few second, but nothing else happens. I
checked the task manager and it doesn't look like the game
is runnng. No errors, no freezing, no BSOD, nothing
happens at all.

how do I troubleshoot?
 
K

Kolitha

Hello
GTA: Vice City is a Game which needs a user account
with administrative priviledges when run for the first time.
But if you still can't play then visit www.rockstargames.com for more
details.
As I think, if I'm able to play vice city on XP Pro,
there should be no problem with xp home too.

P.S.
Try getting XP SP1 or SP1a
 
G

Guest

I'm having the same problem. When I click in the .exe for Vice City, the
mouse pointer turns into a spinning cd icon, the cd spins up inside the cd
player for a few moments... and then nothing happens. In fact, I can't even
eject the Vice City cd- eject doesn't respond- without restarting computer.
This happened with external cd player, too. I'm running WinXP Home SP2 on a
system admin account. It ran fine for several days after intalling SP2, I
also installed Norton AV 2005 yesterday. Maybe that is the problem? I was
hoping for some online help before I start uninstalling things. (I already
tried uninstalling and reinstalling gta vc: no change in behavior.)
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi Gordon,

Definitely disable or uninstall Norton's 2005 to see it's causing
those problems, especially since they only started afterwards.

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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_________________________________________________________

| I'm having the same problem. When I click in the .exe for Vice City, the
| mouse pointer turns into a spinning cd icon, the cd spins up inside the cd
| player for a few moments... and then nothing happens. In fact, I can't even
| eject the Vice City cd- eject doesn't respond- without restarting computer.
| This happened with external cd player, too. I'm running WinXP Home SP2 on a
| system admin account. It ran fine for several days after intalling SP2, I
| also installed Norton AV 2005 yesterday. Maybe that is the problem? I was
| hoping for some online help before I start uninstalling things. (I already
| tried uninstalling and reinstalling gta vc: no change in behavior.)
| "MarkD" wrote:
|
| > Using Office XP Home on an emachines install (don't get me
| > started...)
| >
| > I just bought Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I was able to
| > install GTA, but when I try to start the game, it spins
| > the CD for a few second, but nothing else happens. I
| > checked the task manager and it doesn't look like the game
| > is runnng. No errors, no freezing, no BSOD, nothing
| > happens at all.
| >
| > how do I troubleshoot?
| >
| >
| >
| >
 
D

DINODELTA

Yep, straight after installing SP2, Vice City stopped working for me
The pointer changes to a CD icon and even if I stop the Vice Cit
executable in task manager, I don't get my pointer back :


-
DINODELT
 
G

Guest

Hey, Jimmy,
Yes, I did try disabling Norton '05 with no result. When I uninstalled it,
Vice City was running again! As an experiment I reinstalled it and, again,
no Vice City. I finally ended up reinstalling Norton '03 and didn't have
problems running the game... until a few days ago. I don't know what
happened, but the game reverted to not loading again. I didn't make any
changes or anything; there were no new programs installed. I tried using
system restore and went back to my most recent restore point and that did the
trick. The game now seems to be running fine (knock on wood). I hope there
might be some clues here that will help someone figure this out...
Thanx, Gordon
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi Gordon1955,

I'll forward this to some of the good folks at Symantec
so they can try to reproduce and resolve the issue. :)

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

Gordon1955 said:
Hey, Jimmy,
Yes, I did try disabling Norton '05 with no result. When I uninstalled it,
Vice City was running again! As an experiment I reinstalled it and, again,
no Vice City. I finally ended up reinstalling Norton '03 and didn't have
problems running the game... until a few days ago. I don't know what
happened, but the game reverted to not loading again. I didn't make any
changes or anything; there were no new programs installed. I tried using
system restore and went back to my most recent restore point and that did the
trick. The game now seems to be running fine (knock on wood). I hope there
might be some clues here that will help someone figure this out...
Thanx, Gordon

Jimmy S. said:
Hi Gordon,

Definitely disable or uninstall Norton's 2005 to see it's causing
those problems, especially since they only started afterwards.

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

| I'm having the same problem. When I click in the .exe for Vice City, the
| mouse pointer turns into a spinning cd icon, the cd spins up inside the cd
| player for a few moments... and then nothing happens. In fact, I can't even
| eject the Vice City cd- eject doesn't respond- without restarting computer.
| This happened with external cd player, too. I'm running WinXP Home SP2 on a
| system admin account. It ran fine for several days after intalling SP2, I
| also installed Norton AV 2005 yesterday. Maybe that is the problem? I was
| hoping for some online help before I start uninstalling things. (I already
| tried uninstalling and reinstalling gta vc: no change in behavior.)
| "MarkD" wrote:
|
| > Using Office XP Home on an emachines install (don't get me
| > started...)
| >
| > I just bought Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I was able to
| > install GTA, but when I try to start the game, it spins
| > the CD for a few second, but nothing else happens. I
| > checked the task manager and it doesn't look like the game
| > is runnng. No errors, no freezing, no BSOD, nothing
| > happens at all.
| >
| > how do I troubleshoot?
| >
| >
| >
| >
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