When i play vice city the graphics are really flickery and so are the menus. I have the patch install but what else should i do to solve it? http://updit.com/view/image/2566/gt...

I would guess it's probably something to do with Vista. Vice city is quite an old game and I doubt Microsoft had it in their mind when they were producing Vista. P4 3.20HT 800mhz FSB Abit IS7-E2 2x1024mb OCZ Value DDR400 Dual Channel 80GB Diamondmax9+ SATA 160GB Diamondmax10 SATA Sapphire Radeon X1650 PRO 256mb Hiper Type R 530W PSU

It's your video card. When I put Vice City on my sister's laptop I opened it up and it was like that because of her Intel Integrated Graphics... What are your system specifications? Or... Just tell me your video card. If you're unsure how to do this, go to start, run and type in "dxdiag" without quotations and click on display. I like chicken.

my Compaq presario v2305ca has a crappy ATI x200m 128 meg integrated and runs vice city PERFECTLY, my old ass desktop with a radeon 9200 128meg runs vice city PERFECTLY and both of them even run gta:san Andreas for some reason it dosent let you up the res from 640x480 so even on full graphics settings it runs on both of thoose computers, so the likelihood of his hardware being too slow is very small. it is most likely vista or your graphics drivers on vista, i have vista on my laptop on a separate hard drive and i rarely boot into it because ati dosent have proper video drivers for the x200m for vista

my graphics card is an intel 945gm 128mb

Well that looks like the problem. SCX_Tyler, you mention that your laptop graphics are speedy enough to run GTA. This is not the case here: the issue is not speed, but capability. Intel's GMA is very much a barebones solution: it uses system memory (fighting with the CPU for pipes), is built on low-power PowerVR-MBX architecture, and does not support transform and lighting in hardware. This card simply doesn't have the tools to play most 3D games, so it emulates functions in software, which leads to slow performance, glitches, and incompatibilities. Almost ANY discrete graphics solution would be an improvement on your current situation. However, if you're running a laptop (you didn't mention that) then your upgrade options are severely limited, if nonexistent, and you're better off playing on a desktop. If you're on a desktop, post your motherboard info. I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.

i am running a laptop so upgrading is a problem. Is there anyway i can play without upgrading?