ATI cards crashing GTA4

Posted on Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 16:23 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

PC Games Hardware confirms ATI Radeon HD 3850, Radeon HD 3870, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD 4870, and possible other ATI graphics card as well refuse to run Grand Theft Auto IV.

The site says they tested these four cards on two X48 based systems with Windows Vista x64 and ATI Catalyst 8.11 WHQL drivers and all they got was a crash right after the GTA4 welcome screen.

The site says NVIDIA cards also had some trouble, but after clicking the exe file several times the game would run fine. Hopefully AMD or Rockstar will quickly provide a solution for this problem.

It is of course possible that GTA 4 (PC) will run under different conditions (operating system, graphics card, driver, motherboard). But there are reports of users in our German forum and in the 3D Center forum that describe similar problems. It also seems like Nvidia cards are also negatively affected; we had to run the exe file several times before GTA 4 started.

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Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 17:46 CET

single hd4850, no problems at all.

Reply by Anonymous on Monday, December 08 2008 @ 20:17 CET

what driver do u use for no problems on single HD4850 ??

Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 1:26 CET

radeon 4870 and Windows Vista 64.
the game crashes at startup

Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 18:15 CET

ati 4850 crossfire vista x64 crach...

Reply by Anonymous on Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 19:00 CET

Same here.... Last time I bought ATI card, next time back to NVIDIA!
Reply by Anonymous on Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 19:30 CET

I got a 4850 Crossfire also...
Deactivating the crossfire helps starting it, but of course, i've got less memory to run it full options... and got some flickering...
Reply by Anonymous on Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 19:31 CET

Ati hd 4870 crashing at xp x32bit

Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Friday, December 05 2008 @ 16:16 CET

hd 3850 vista 32 crash

Reply by Anonymous on Friday, December 05 2008 @ 17:21 CET

You need TO instal Vista sp1 the update. RM40 will come up if u did not download the Vista SP1. FATAL ERROR. I run gta 4 on medium settings with hd2600 pro is pretty laggy. IM in need of a NEw gfx with more then 512mb ddr3

Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Friday, December 05 2008 @ 20:46 CET

My sapphire 4870 freezes when I want to change graphic settings.

Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 16:52 CET

ATI Radeon 9200 128MB
Can't even play the game without fatel errors! Keep getting DD3D30, downloaded everything for it though including the Service Pack 3.

Reply by Anonymous on Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 20:55 CET

dude, dont even think you'll be able to play GTA4 with 9200
Reply by Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2008 @ 0:27 CET

You realise your videocard is nowhere near good enough to run the game, right? It's well below the minimum requirements. Minimum ATI card is the X1900 256mb.
Reply by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 06 2009 @ 3:08 CET

a radeon 9200? that would just about cope with gta san andreas... be wise and check min system requirements..

Textures not loading properly on Asus radeon HD3870 did a total driver clean, all drivers up to date as is my vista 64...
Reply by Anonymous on Saturday, February 19 2011 @ 15:49 CET

PLEASE TELL ME BRO THAT CAN I PLAY GTA 4 ON MY RADEON 9200 256 MB

Re: ATI cards crashing GTA4
by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 06 2009 @ 3:10 CET

Textures not loading properly on Asus radeon HD3870 did a total driver clean, all drivers up to date as is my vista 64...

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