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"GTA3 issues"

When I am playing GTA3 I experience problems with missing textures. They are simply not there, parts of the road are transparent and in certain cases, entire buildings.

I am using a Radeon 8500 and the catalyst 2.5 drivers, with the GTA3 v1.1 patch installed, I am also using the latest motherboard drivers.

Any ideas as to what the problem could be???

I am considering installing DirectX9 and the new Catalyst 3 drivers but am doubtful this will help.

I have messed about with draw distance and am using the most current drivers I can without upgrading to DX9, I have defragmented my hard drive and turned on Anistropic filtering and it seems to have improved slightly but yes, it is very consistent, as in about every 30 seconds I see somehting invisible.

GTA 3! what a game! weve all got to of played that at one time

Is it consistent?

Well all I can recommend is newer/different drivers, or see if you can change your D3D/OGL (whatever) compat. modes. or anything to do with textures at all.

Serves you right for buying an ATI though tbh.

It is similar to this but instead of fading in nothing happens, the buildings are either completely transparent or have no detail whatsoever, ie large grey blocks and the roads are similar, when you drive across the transparent parts it just turns blue.

Does it fade in when you get close, almost like snazzy pop-up? As this happens sometimes on the PS2 version.

When I am playing GTA3 I experience problems with missing textures. They are simply not there, parts of the road are transparent and in certain cases, entire buildings.

I am using a Radeon 8500 and the catalyst 2.5 drivers, with the GTA3 v1.1 patch installed, I am also using the latest motherboard drivers.

Any ideas as to what the problem could be???

I am considering installing DirectX9 and the new Catalyst 3 drivers but am doubtful this will help.