I've found a solution that I haven't found on any website.

There is a process called "QPService.exe" that has a conflict with GTA San Andreas. The description of this process in the task manager is "HP Quickplay Resident Program".

I found that by terminating this process and then running the game, it works perfectly.

This process comes after installing HP Quickplay on your system. HP laptops already come with it.

To get San Andreas working, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL then click "Start Task Manager" go to the "Processes" tab and look for "QPService.exe" and end it.

This fixed on my computer:

- The time it took between loading the game and showing the menu on the screen.

- The time it took to show the menu when I paused the game.

- Occasional freezing.

by Sebastian Sancho

I have windows vista and gta sa 1.0. I cant get in the game. I open the exe archive and in 5 seconds it says gta sa has stopped working

Windows 7 Build 7000
Before the menu, the screen fades out and freezes. I have tried all of the fixes i could find and none work. It works fine under XP. It worked for some time under vista.

I have a problem when i try to click with my mouse it doesnt work and when i try to start up the game it just stops then i exit and it says not responding.Any ideas why?

My game runs fine now that I updated all my drivers and reinstalled the game................thats basically all you have to do if your running any version of windows vista on your pc

I have the original game of gta san andreas when I go to start panel then play gta sa it appears gta_sa stopped working I tried all that I found on internet

This game works great on my lenovo y 450 with vista service pack 1. i'm playing gta san andreas version 1.00

GTA SA works fine for me under windows 7 but works a little bit slower as compared to running it on win xp x86

San Andreas works fine with no lag on my laptop with a pentium dualcore 1,60ghz (x2) and with 1gbram with at least 700mb of it left. 8400m GS 512mb videocard. I got the same mouse problem here at version 1.0 on xp pro sp3. And also sometimes when I step in a car the moment cj gets his foot in the car it sometimes makes the game freeze wich forces me to go to hibernate and go back to windows again, wich is the only thing to fix the crash. Or if I drive very fast out of my garage, i get it. I think because my laptop's hardware was originally made for vista only, and because it's OEM, that it doesn't work. Any of you people have Vista machines with XP?

I just bought GTA San Andreas Version 2 and I have the same mouse problem. I'm working on Windows XP Pro SP3, and after reading several posts I can only assume that there are two solutions for the mouse problems(apart from pausing,entering,pausing,entering several times):

1)The problem occurs when using USB mouse, NOT PS/2 mouse as I had no problems with PS/2 mouse on the same operating system. So changing your USB to PS/2 with an adaptor may solve the problem. If it insists change the place where you connect your USB and restart San Andreas.

2)This solution solves the mouse problems but it has to be done every time you begin the game.Start the game and at the main menu Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Task Manager. There find gta_sa.exe right click it and select Set Afinity... Leave ONLY CPU 0 ticked press OK and get back to the game. It should be solved, but you may encounter performance issues on older PCs.Newer PCs (or laptops) have no performance issues.

Very good game.. Running on v1.00, can mod the game for special cars. Only problem i lag on high settings and crash most of the time alt tabbing. Other then that this game is great.
Running nvidia geforce 9400 gt

Windows Media Center with Service Pack 2 (fresh install of the OS). The game simply will not load. Crashes to desktop every time.

Using Intel Core2Quad PC with 4G RAM and Windows 7 64bit
The game won't start at all...have tried istalling the latest graphics driver...to no avail
It worked fine in XP and Vista

I have an old laptop from 2002, Toshiba Satellite 1400.
It has 32 MB VRAM of its Trident Cyberblade XP GPU.
After starting, it plays credit (which I skip) and the San Andreas logo with some information appears. Within a few seconds it quits immediately, no logs, no errors, no everything. Can't get it to work.

It started working after I placed the game folder in :c->local disk->users->my user
The game still didnt work until I did the following:
Then I also turned off windows live from process (ctrl+alt+delete)