Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Tips

Note: This installation walk-through was put together using Crossover Games 8.x.x
and linux. The same procedure still applies for  Crossover Games 9.0 however the
images below depict the CXG-8.x.x GUI elements -- if you have any problems with
incorporating these instructions into the CXG-9.0 situation, post to the Forum here.



This game installs cleanly into it's own bottle using the
winXP bottle profile. Do not launch the game at the end of
installation - just exit the installer.

=NOTE= ; There are two(2) official patches for this game,
in English and German versions, however the readme file
included in these patches says "only apply this patch if
you are actually experiencing these problems", so keep
that in mind - I saw no graphics problems at all. You
might try here for the English version, and for the German
version try here.

If you need these patches, extract the .exe file, and copy
 it to the following location (linux path shown);

~/.cxgames/<bottle name>/drive_c/Program Files/Rockstar Games/Grand Theft Auto Vice City/


This game supports multiple 4:3 aspect fullscreen resolutions, however
for those of us running widescreen 16:9/10 display hardware, this will
require running crossover/wine in windowed mode (Emulate a virtual desktop)

We will also use cxsetup here, to install the official v1.1 patch copied
in the step above (if required).



0. Start  cxsetup

1. Highlight the bottle you installed the game into

2. Click on 'Configure' => 'Control Panel' => 'winecfg' -- the Wine Configuration GUI will appear





3. Now click on 'Graphics' tab => tick  'Emulate a virtual desktop'





4. After enabling virtual desktop mode, the default desktop size will be 800x600 - change this to 640x480.




5. Click on 'Apply' => 'Ok' => 'Ok"

6. With the bottle you installed the game into highlighted, click on Configure => 'Control Panel'

Note: The CD check routine is now working in COG 8 and the 'play' CD must be mounted
for the game to start/run.