Gta2 Car

[Valda Atkeson]

Ibought an unopened Grand Theft Auto 2 disc from eBay recently and installed GTA2 on my system. After installing the game and DX6.1, I selected the British flag then tried to load the game, but am greeted by, "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Has anyone tried this game on older hardware? I'm trying to run it on a Cyrix 5x86-133 and have tried two such systems so far, one with a Voodoo2 and one with a Voodoo3. I've tried 3dfx glide and D3D modes, but the results were the same. GTA 1 runs just fine though.

Thinking that the game may require Pentium-specific instructions, I installed it on my Cyrix Media GXm 266 MHz system w/3dfx Banshee and it ran just fine. I do not believe the MediaGX includes the instructions added with the Pentium, though maybe they were snuck into the later CPUs? The GXm does contain MMX instructions, though, so I would be surprised if GTA2 only worked with CPU's containing MMX.

"GTA2 Manager.exe" is bugged AFAIK. Always kinda messes up my file explorer window in Windows XP.

Now GTA2 was/is offered as a free download by Rockstar games and there is a version on the internet available with these remarks:

"Bugfixed version of GTA2 by Vike the Hube" "v11.44 2013-09-07"

For one, this version does not give the explorer issues mentioned above. It should be easy to find this fixed version of GTA2.

My copy of GTA2 has issues with loading from CD-ROM (it needs to be in the drive due to the copyright-control system) and sometimes will crash upon start-up if I try to start the game directly from the hard disk instead of waiting for the CD to autorun and then starting the game. It's also crash-prone when loading the next music track while a video slowdown occurs (e.g. when loads of chained explosions occur).

From memory, I recall the newer GTA2 downloads requiring DX8, which I don't want to install on such a system. DX 6.1 is as far as I want to go on a Cyrix 5x86. This is why I wanted the original GTA2 version; it requires DX 6.1. I'll try to locate the bug fixed version, and also try loading the game while the CD-ROM is spinning, or perhaps load the game from the CD-ROM's autostart menu if there is such an option.

Unfortunately, loading the game with the CD spinning didn't help. The issue may be related to gta2.exe and not gta2 manager.exe because when I run gta2.exe by itself, I get the illegal operation message.

Error Starting Program

The C:\PROGRAM FILES\GTA2\GTA2.EXE file can't load at the desired address, and is not relocatable. Contact your vendor to get a version that is compatible with this version of Windows.

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