GTA San Andreas - Studio 15 - Choppy game play perforance

I am trying to run this game on my dell studio 15 laptop, its got the ati graphics card in it.

but the gameplay it just too choppy, its even choppy jerking playing on the lowest resolution and lowest settings,

therefore makes me think its some other problem related to the studio 15.

My friend can play it everything on high with his nvidia 8400,

anyone possibly had experience to this problem or had it themselves with thier studio 15 ?

Thanks

 

Have you tried turning off the Frame Limiter?

And getting the newest nVidia drivers, and updating Direct X?

 

What are your laptop specs?

 

download the latest patch from rockstar

 

I have a msi gx720 and I have the same prob, I gave up trying. I guess its hdd loading related.

 

*ignore*

Read the title wrong.

 

The GTA SA frame limit is hard coded to only 25 fps, so as suggested try turning this off. Disable AA and make sure you have the most up to date graphics drivers.

 

Hey all, completely forgot I had made this thread !

Well, I have tried updating the drivers, but no luck.

Laptop specs:

dell studio 15,

T8100 2.1Ghz CPU
4 Gig Ram
250 Gig hard drive
ATI 3450 256mb dedicated.

 

Try deleting the gta_sa.set file in the folder GTA San Andreas User Files in Documents.

 

that graphics card will most likely not run gta 4 smoothly regardless

 

If anybody with a studio 15 can run this game let me know. I wanted to buy this game but i diddnt know if i can play it.

 

The OP asked about GTA San Andreas, not GTA 4.

GTA San Andreas should run fine on a Studio 15. Hopefully we'll hear back from the OP to see if he's had any success with the latest suggestions.

 

GTA iv will run fine on studio 15?
Also ya san andreas runs without a problem on my baby.
I was just wondering on the new gta iv.

 

I meant GTA San Andreas, since that's what this thread is about. I edited my previous post to be more clear

GTA IV will be unplayable.

 

Lol, he's in for a rude awakening if he doesn't come by here again.

 

I know it should run it, it should run it on max !

my mates laptop with a nvidia 8400gs 128mb runs it on max !, so he says, but he wouldnt lie.

i wanna try doing the driver again, i would like to completly remove the drivers and start fresh, been looking for a decent driver cleaner of some sort,,, anymore reccomend ?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista32/common-vista32

out of those, pretty sure thats the right one, there doesnt seem to be anything ont he ati site thats for mobile gfx, just falls under the normal category ?

and yeah, this is for gta sa, I wouldnt even think of trying gta 4, i hear its struggles to be played on some high end desktop systems.

 

Nah, no luck, still the same.

This is with the latest 9.1 ati drivers, some reason the control centre didnt install with it, as I wanted ! and chose on the ati driver site.

and on dell, the latest driver is only the 8.5 version...

This really is getting on meee nerrves

 

thats really odd an Nvidia 8400 can probably run this game maxed out so somthing is certainly not right here......

 

I still remember when i replaced my original Fujitsu HDD in my Pavilion with a Seagate SATA, I got the same choppy gameplay in San Andreas. The game will run fluently but the graphics will become choppy for a few seconds and then revert back to normal.
@OP: Try setting the affinity of the game to one core in Task Manager. It might help.

 

san andreas runs on netbooks.... whats going on?

what RAM and processor do you have, and when did you last ccleaner and defrag your drive? only things i can think of really. 3450 should have no problems.

 

I can play San Andreas at 1024x768 on my ancient Athlon XP 3000+, 1gb Ram, Radeon 9600 pro desktop with everything on high, no AA. There's got to be something wrong.

 

Thats what I am trying to say !!! Yes there is something wrong...

roosta, my specs are further up top in another post of mine...

I have been ccleaning everything 2 days for the last week or so,

The drive does not need a defrag either, under 7% fragmentation.

Making it run on 1 core did not work either...

Btw. I can run steam games fine, left 4 dead, css, tf2, gmod, etc, all fine.

 

Since you have already exhausted all options, I think there is nothing wrong in going about that extra mile and contacting Take Two Support regarding the choppy performance.

 

I'm having the same problem, installing the patch v.1.01 made a little improvement but still ...

Anybody made any real progress with this?

 

I have a Studio 15 with the ATi 3450 graphics, and GTA: San Andreas plays just fine for me. This laptop is way more than powerful enough to run that game.

 

this is stranage. if all else fails, reinstall GTA:SA? mine runs it maxxed out on a 9200, 3470 is about equal, if not more powerful than the 9200......

the only other thing i can think of is a FEAR style hardware conflict with your mouse etc, but ive not seen it mentioned anywhere.

 

Try setting the resolution higher, sometimes that actually helps FPS.

I can't think of what would be causing it, other than that.

 

yeah save your game files and reinstall after that download the latest patch ......hope that works

 

hum forgot about this thread, anywhos, I at the time, tried every thing, but still had some heavy choppy stutters. putting the option "effects" on low dramaticaly reduced the prob, while not removing it, however, it should run fine on my msi 720 with ultrahigh or low "effects", it did run fine on a old 7400go laptop.

so yea, just updating it for anyone who that might help.