Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Forum

Hello every body.
I played GTA years ago on a PC and i'd like to play it again on my new MacBook Pro. I installed it, it does works. But i'd like to load my saves, I put the saves in My documents folder but when i load it the game crash.
Any ideas ?
Thank you in advance for your help

The save games may or may not be saved in your existing "My Documents" folder, depending on game version and compatibility settings.

Set the GTA bottle to the windows version you originally created your save game with (winecfg, first tab).
Move your save games to your desktop, start a new game, save and exit. Replace the generated save with yours.

If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the game in a new bottle.
If that doesn't work either, your save games MAY be corrupt.

Sometimes when I have something like this, I backup my save-games. Then I start a new game and save it. Then I go and look for the place where it saved the game. I delete the new save and move my old save-games to that folder. Try that.

magicmidna wrote:

The save games may or may not be saved in your existing "My
Documents" folder, depending on game version and compatibility
settings.

The game has created a folder (GTA San Andreas User Files) as on a PC in My (mac) Documents, and i found there the saves i did played on my mac (first mission just to be able to save)

magicmidna wrote:

Set the GTA bottle to the windows version you originally created
your save game with (winecfg, first tab).
Move your save games to your desktop, start a new game, save and
exit. Replace the generated save with yours.

Bottle : Windows XP as i was on when i first played to GTA
I already tried to save in game on mac and replace those saves by the older. Didn't work, still crashing right after the loading

magicmidna wrote:

If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the game in a new bottle.
If that doesn't work either, your save games MAY be corrupt.

Already reinstalled the game, in another bottle (but still WinXP)
And my saves still works on a PC (i tried yesterday) :(
(sorry for my english i'm french)

Have you tried running a log to see what the crash is?

On the crossover games menu, go to [programs] and [run command]

Select the bottle you're going to use, and use the [browse] button to navigate to the exe file you want to run.

Under [debug options] (click the arrow to open) check the box marked [create log file]. Click [run]. It will ask you where to save the log. I created a folder in my documents called Crossover Logs and I put all my logs in there.

Run the game. When it crashes, go back to where you saved the log file and open it with Text Edit or a similar program.

Look at the end where it crashes. Are there any messages? Error? Could not find (x)?

Thank you to try to fix my issue !

The log display :
"Backtrace:
fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while ll-driver open
err:mmtime:TIME_MMTimeStop Timer still active?!"
and some other stuff before (probably not interesting)

Any ideas ?

That I haven't seen before, so I'm not sure of a fix.

When you save a new game, can you play THAT save? I know you can't run the old windows saves, but are you able to play a game you saved on your (MAC?) through crossover?

Second, just out of curiosity:

These are useful registry keys
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

On the crossover games menu, go to [programs] and [run command]

Select the bottle you're going to use, and type [regedit] (without brackets) into the command you want to run.

In the list that opens in the Crossover bottle registry, go to [software], [wine], [direct3d]
In the direct 3d folder, right click and create a new string (if there isn't one already) called UseGLSL. Right click it and select [modify] and for [value] write [disabled]. If that doesn't work, try [enabled], and if that doesn't work, delete that entry from the bottle registry.

You could also try [software], [wine], [direct3d] and create a string called OffscreenRenderingMode and give it a value [backbuffer] (no brackets). If it doesn't work, set the value to [fbo] (which is the default.

No guarantee it'll work, but I've used these on a couple programs that didn't want to run and as long as you set the registry back again, nothing is lost if it doesn't work.