GTA 3 installed on Windows XP and 98

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Intro: 00:35
Installing on XP: 02:12
Quick History Lesson: 03:49
Launching the game: 08:33
Windows 98 Install: 18:44
Trying to run it: 22:37
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[@madjimms]

One of my most sought after games as a teen. I was OBSESSED with GTA 3 when it first came out. The nostalgia it brings me is too much. The sountrack, the absolute freedom it had compared to other games of the era. It will always remain in my mind as an iconic game. GTA V is nothing compared to the memories I had with this.

[@Nick-ology]

Nostalgia is a heck of a thing! I'm glad you got to experience it that way and had been there when the series really blossomed. Thanks for stopping by!

[@grannateTY]

It is cool and take the time back again when gta was different than now

[@Bob-v3d8t]

I remember playing Vice City on my PC, I had an old 20" workstation CRT monitor that was way better than the LCD of the time, it was silky smooth, zero lag. really took like 15 years until i could play anything that smooth again on modern monitors.

[@Nick-ology]

Crt monitors really kicked butt compared to those early 2000s lcd displays, especially the way the animations played out in gta 3 and vice city. Those were the days!

[@newDell-q4w]

Nice video! It takes me back seeing the jewel case and cd art. I recall being super hyped for GTA III coming to the PC. It was already such a phenomenon of a game by then and the PC version came with huge graphical improvements.

[@Nick-ology]

Thank you for stopping by, and it was absolutely a huge deal that we both were hyped for back then!

[@fra4455]

Great video

[@Nick-ology]

Much appreciated! Looking to do some more in a similar style, hopefully with more success on installs or some better pre-planning instead of a "blind install".

[@ilbro_]

very cool! can you do that with vice city?

[@Nick-ology]

I have a copy for pc, I'll definitely put that one in the lineup. Thank you for the suggestion!

[@southernflatland]

I can confirm that GTA San Andreas also works fine on XP. I dunno about 98, but if I had to spot a guess, that would likely work as well.

[@Nick-ology]

Depending on the graphics card, for sure! I'll have to look into a newer card for my p3, or try to install windows 98 on my p4 machine and call it a day!

[@ilbro_]

@@Nick-ology waiting for it! ❤️

[@HickoryDickory86]

I wish I still had an old Windows XP PC to play all my favorite old games with no issues. And I miss old CRT monitors and televisions. Not just pixel art, but even newer graphics look phenomenal on CRTs.

[@Nick-ology]

Agreed! Depending on the monitor it can look a bit darker, but still vibrant. As for older pcs, there are a lot of good dos and windows emulators out there, but also some decent old business xp machines still out there being sold for cheap locally... Good luck and have fun!

[@TobyRieper48]

I've just installed GTA III on my Xp machine, which works great with my athlon xp 2400, ati 6500 pro. Can't get skygfx to work but silent patch III works so im happy. The original GTA and GTA london work well on the XP machine but didnt on my DOS/98 setup.

[@Nick-ology]

Interesting, I haven't tried too many mods with gta 3 outside of just player skins, but I remember modding gta 1 a whole lot back in the day. I wonder why gta and gta London didn't work on 98, of I remember correctly it was sensitive to the cpu you have and the speed. Good luck if you try it again, and thanks for sharing!

[@aizawatakemichi9502]

do you have THPS 2?

[@Nick-ology]

Funny enough, I have that for the Dreamcast but I never really played it much. I played the warehouse demo for THPS1 to death, but I think I got thps2 for cheap one day int he hopes of playing it.

[@TuhnraCelinks]

​@@Nick-ologyI want to see the pc version for this OS because in the modern theyre cant doing alt-tab or enter

[@softwarerendering]

I think You are wrong about DX8 part, because I can run GTA SA on DX6 iGPU. Try 3D-Analyze with "caps emulation".

[@Nick-ology]

That's pretty neat, but I was mainly trying the "stock" out of the box setup. I'll have to try this for science of course, but GTA3 does in fact state it requires a dx8 enabled gpu. Stock setup, at least. I may have to try it again to see if something else was causing the issue, but it seemed pretty cut and dry. Thanks for the heads up!

[@softwarerendering]

@@Nick-ology there is VOGONS thread "What are some DirectX 7 compatible DX8/9 games?" GTA3 listed there. Of course, not official, but "should run".

[@Nick-ology]

@@softwarerendering appreciate that, I might have to also install dx separately in case the gta 3 install didn't.