VC: delay after save reload

Hi Guys.

I¨m about 62% complete with VC. I have purchased all
properties there is to buy, and currently I decided to halt
with the storyline and concentrate in mopping up the details, like
Jumps and Hidden Packages.

BUT. Out of nowhere, the game started acting up. Where before,
loading a savegame would put me into action in few seconds, now
I am stuck with grey screen for _many_ minutes before letting me into
the game. The same happens when I jump the ramps - screen goes
into the "fly-by slow-motion" mode as before, but after landing, it
does not go back to normal view as it should, but only after a period
of couple minutes !!

Needless to say, this makes it impossible to handle consecutive jumps,
and quite possible keeps me from obtaining 100% completion.
(and no, I have not used cheat codes, ever)

I read somewhere that save slot at Car Dealership can
corrupt the save file - can anybody tell if this might be the
cause for my problem ? And how to work around it?

Or am I just royally screwed??


Cheers,
Rudi

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:39:56 +0300, Rudi <Rudi DeleteThis @iki.fi> wrote:

>
>Hi Guys.
>
>I¨m about 62% complete with VC. I have purchased all
>properties there is to buy, and currently I decided to halt
>with the storyline and concentrate in mopping up the details, like
>Jumps and Hidden Packages.
>
>BUT. Out of nowhere, the game started acting up. Where before,
>loading a savegame would put me into action in few seconds, now
>I am stuck with grey screen for _many_ minutes before letting me into
>the game. The same happens when I jump the ramps - screen goes
>into the "fly-by slow-motion" mode as before, but after landing, it
>does not go back to normal view as it should, but only after a period
>of couple minutes !!
>
>Needless to say, this makes it impossible to handle consecutive jumps,
>and quite possible keeps me from obtaining 100% completion.
>(and no, I have not used cheat codes, ever)
>
>I read somewhere that save slot at Car Dealership can
>corrupt the save file - can anybody tell if this might be the
>cause for my problem ? And how to work around it?
>
>Or am I just royally screwed??

Yes, royally screwed. You are experiencing a bug that occurs in both
VC and III. There is no known fix except to load a previous save. You
do know that you should keep a couple of saves that you alternate
between, don't you? If not, welcome to the really fun part of the GTA
series. You will have to start the game over if this is your only
save.

Out of desparation you might want to try deleting the gta_vc.set file
which contains hardware configuration info. VC will recreate the file
and you can set your own config options when you run the program. The
file is found:

C:\Documents and Settings\<your name here>\My Documents\GTA Vice City
User Files\gta_vc.set

This fixes some problems but I didn't find that it helped much with
this problem. Your situation my be different.

Good luck and best wishes.