Intermittent crashes playing GTA: San Andreas
Wassup guys? I'm having a problem with one of my favorite games, GTA: San Andreas. Every once in a while, while I'm playing, the screen will suddenly go black, and an error message will pop up saying that gtasa.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Sometimes, I can play all day with no problem, but other times, it will happen after 10 minutes or so. After the error occours, I can start the game again, and continue playing from my last save. Thank God this has never happened after completing a hard mission before I have a chance to save (yet)! My system specs are listed in my sig. I am playing the game at 800x600x32, with visual fx set to "high". There is some occasional lag in the game, but not enough to want to lower the visual fx. Is there any patches out there that can fix the problem? Any help would be appreciated.
My Network:
-Workstation1: AMD64 3400+; 1gb RAM; 360GB Hdd space; GeForce FX5500; SB Live! 24-bit audio;WinXP Pro SP2
-Workstation2: PentiumIII 800 Coppermine; 384MB RAM; 36 & 9gb Ultra 160 HDD's; Matrox G400 Dual Head; Yamaha DS1 audio; Win2k Pro SP4
-Workstation3: PentiumIII 800 Coppermine; 384MB RAM; 80GB HDD; GeForce MX4000; SB Live! Basic audio; Win2k Pro SP4
-Laptop: Pentium M 1.66GHz; 512MB RAM; 27GB HDD;
Win XP Pro SP2