How do you get GTA IV to work in Win 7?????

Originally Posted by hussanali

Is it pirated. ?

No its a retail dvd, pointless pirating it really as the online game is mint, not to mention my local Morrisons sell it for £9.99

I have the retail version and that works fine for me too. Installed and played with no problems.

System: Windows 7100 - 32 bit
E8400 processor
P5QL-E mobo

Hi,

I realize this is an old topic but I'm rather frustrated, and all the loops you have to jump through just to play this game is so annoying I nearly took it back.

Anyway, I get it installed just fine (win7 x86) but when I attempt to run, even with most compat modes ... it gets to the point where it reads the cd, passes that and then ... nothing. Rinse/repeat even after updates and even after attempting to use nocds .. same result. I really don't think I should have to go through this much hell to play a game I payed for. Is it going to take going back to XP to get this to work or am I missing something obvious. .. or?

Well, I had that problem also, and it took me a reinstall of windows 7 and updating the drivers and installing directx 9.0c before i connect to the internet or install games to get it to work. I have a topic opened on this forum for the right way to install it. Problems with games on windows 7? this works most of the time. I would try this first before you go back to xp, it seems that GTA IV and other games run a lot smoother with win 7, at least with the 64 bit version.