Its better they say you can't run it when you can, then say you can run it when you can't

EDIT: This also applies to CourgarMan Below me

its not accurate, told me i cant run loads of games and i was able to play those games in low or even medium settings.

Mine has difficulty with GTAIII.... but oddly GTA:VC runs fine (still on low settings though)

Is there a PC version of San Andreas? and while I am here does anyone think it will work ok given VC runs fine? I am not too fussed as I have experienced the game and I much prefer Vice City and III, but it's still a decent game.

Yeah, but even the minimum reqs of games aren't accurate somehow. Saints Row 2 says a 7600 minimum, and I have a 7300 and can run it fine, so, if the developers don't even know the minimum reqs, a random page can't do it better

There is, but be careful, it requires more specs than VC (I remember upgrading my video card just to run it)

Same here.

To bring out the full potential in the highest settings mode, you need (at least) an Nvidia card with PhysX, most likely the AGEIX PhysX Accelerator which is found on higher-end graphics cards.

There was a new driver release (this also includes notebook PCs now, since I first post this before and no one seemed to reply on a thread I had on here about it): http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us This update is to the driver 185.81 for GeForce cards. You have to download the file to your computer and install TWICE, as their is an installation error and I needed to install it twice in order to correct it. I also did this on my other laptop with installing twice to correct the error, so it wasn't just the laptop that I'm using.

My PC was able to run GTA VC but not San Andreas ,the game didn't even start it just kept crashing until I upgraded it.

You might be able to get san andreas running on the lowest settings but it wouldn't be very pleasing to the eye.

But did VC require higher specs than III? because my laptop only runs the latter for some reason (well it does run GTAIII, but it seems to have a 75% chance it will crash shortly before I get to the garage for the first save.... and if it gets past that point, there is horrendous pop-up of objects (sometimes about 5 seconds AFTER I crash into them) and is still liable to crash at any given time.

I am not interested in it's graphics, first of all they are quite ugly games even at their best, and second I can look past pretty much any poor graphics as soon as I start playing a game.

I don't think I will risk it unless I see it really cheap... the same as I did with Vice City (I asked if the game would run in PC World, telling the guy that GTAIII didn't run well, and he suggested it very likely would not.... but I bought the game for £3 a couple of years later and it works fine)

My laptop is over 5 years old now, and while it was a decent enough model back then it wasn't built for gaming.

I don't see a reason as to why you wouldn't able to run it on low [maybe medium-ish] settings.

GTA 3 reqs

• 450 MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon CPU
• 96 MB RAM
• 8x CD-ROM drive
• 500 MB hard disk space
• 16 MB DirectX 8.1 compatible graphics card
• DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
• Windows 98/98 SE/Me/2000/XP

VC reqs

• 800MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon CPU
• 128MB RAM
• 8x CD-ROM drive
• 915 MB hard disk space
• 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics card
• DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card
• Windows 98/98 SE/Me/2000/XP/Server 2003

SA reqs

Microsoft Windows^[8]

• 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon CPU
• 256 MB RAM
• 8x DVD drive
• 3.6 GB hard disk space
• 64 MB DirectX 9.0-compatible graphics card
• DirectX 9.0-compatible sound card
• Windows 2000/XP.

They get progressively higher, maybe it would help if you posted your laptop specs, but it's weird that it runs VC and not III. I'd say that if it struggles to run III, then it shouldn't run SA, but who knows