game GTA 4 compatibility problem

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Another problem. When i try to play GTA 4 on Windows 7 everything goes well until i try to run the game.

It wont work without compatibility. But on list there are two optiones "Windows Vista" and "Windows XP SP".

When i select Vista it gives me next messege "Service Pack 1 needed"

When i select XP SP2 it gives me next messege "Service Pack 3 needed"

Why there is not XP SP3 or VISTA SP1 in compatibility mode, any solution???

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I believe you need to pick the compatibility before you install the game to be able to play at all, ( On the setup ) that's what they say on various GTA related forums.

EDIT: Or try Windows 2000 Compatibility.

Run Gta4's setup.exe in Comp mode for xp sp2, then to run the game, launchgta4.exe in windows2000 mode. that's all

Taken from another forum.

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I believe you need to pick the compatibility before you install the game to be able to play at all, ( On the setup ) that's what they say on various GTA related forums.

EDIT: Or try Windows 2000 Compatibility.

Taken from another forum.

I installed the game in compatibility mode. You cant do it differently.

Windows 2000 did not worked for me when running a game but Windows NT4 SP5 did work today. But i tried it all yesterday and nothing worked.

By the way. In Windows 7 it takes two times longer to load the game compared to xp but the game is much faster on win7 than on xp.

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ppl.... this is still a beta, well i cant say that its even a beta yet, since the public beta may be a different build.... you cant expect games to run correctly under it at this stage...

These kinds of bugs are expected to happen...

What do you mean? I have been playing minesweepers for 17 hours, and it's running fine. No crashes at all.

It's so addictive! Minesweepers alone is already a big enough reason to get Windows 7.

j/k :p

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In Windows 7 you do not need to change the compatibility mode, it runs perfectly.

Only when going to install GTAIV do you have to go into compatibility mode to install the game but thats it.

not true. Maybe for you its that way. But everyone i asked had the same problem (4 people witch i know tried GTA4 on win7)

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ok, I could never get GTA to install without freezing on XP SP3 with .net 3.5 SP1 so I have tried Win 7 beta build 7000, I have got it to install fine by setting the compat of 'Setup.exe' on the disc to Win XP and everything is in place however when I launch the game, in safe mode or not, I get a 'SecuLauncher: Failed to start application [2000]' even if I change the compat mode of 'LaunchGTAIV' to win 2000, vista or xp etc... ne help? I really wanna play this game and my system is more than capable.

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ok, I could never get GTA to install without freezing on XP SP3 with .net 3.5 SP1 so I have tried Win 7 beta build 7000, I have got it to install fine by setting the compat of 'Setup.exe' on the disc to Win XP and everything is in place however when I launch the game, in safe mode or not, I get a 'SecuLauncher: Failed to start application [2000]' even if I change the compat mode of 'LaunchGTAIV' to win 2000, vista or xp etc... ne help? I really wanna play this game and my system is more than capable.

I already had GTAIV installed under vista X64, so I didn't do the installation procedure under Windows 7 X64, I just exported the relevant registry entries, and installed the social club. I forgot to install Visual C++ redistributable, and got the same error message as you, there is no need to set any compatiblity, just make sure you install the vcredist_x86.exe, located in GTAIV\Redistributable folder on the installation DVD. This also applies to X64 systems.

Running it now without problems.

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