Getting White Cars? Look Here.

[Neil]

If you're getting white cars in Vice City, follow this procedure and it should all resolve itself.

1. Browse to C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Vice City (or wherever you installed it)

2. Open the Models directory

3. DELETE the file named GTA3.dir (Do not delete GTA3.img)

4. Restart GTA Vice City, and you should see a message informing you that the textures are being converted to an optimal format for your video card.

Unfortunately, you'll probably have to do this every time you install a mod. It's all because your card doesn't support DirectX Texture compression. A good solution would be to buy a new video card, anything above the Geforce 3 or ATi Radeon 8xxx range should do.

If you have any other problems, just reply to this thread.

[j-o-3]

I did that, but now I get an unhandled exception. :(

[The Reaper Banned]

My friend just tried that and he's pissed. What does he do now?

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

I get an unhandled exeption to.

[Neil]

This should force the game into rebuilding the textures. There's no other way to do it, and perhaps it's best if you BACK UP YOUR FILES

Just because I didn't tell you to in the first place doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, so to those who are "pissed" about it, don't blame me.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

fortunatly i did back up my files (for those of you who didnt they will probaly be in the recycle bin.)

[i_poo_floaters]

it worked for me fine but i have no sound fx

[The Reaper Banned]

He reinstalled it and tried it again. Unhandled Exception again.

[Neil]

Perhaps he should try updating his Graphics/Sound/Motherboard drivers and installing the latest version of DirectX. (9.0b)

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

I have the latest of everything and I get the errors :( might be because my graphics card is quite old

[The Reaper Banned]

Good show! It worked!

[T A-C]

Q: will this work for GTA3 aswell

[BC Rich]

Try it. I just did and it didn't work. Maybe it will for you.

[Mike22k]

i had that problem and sometold me, cant remember who, all you need to do is delete TXD.IMG in the MODELS no unhandled exceptions anymore. well not for me anyway.

[Devildriver]

I tried it and got an unhandled exception? *gives neil an evil look*

[Dragon96]

OMG NO NO NO NO NOO!!! YOU DON'T DO THAT!!! Easy, just replace teh files in teh gta3.img, then all you have to do it replace the txd file with the one in the txd.img, THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO! I figured that out one day......So replace the files with gta3/img and teh txd files in txd.img, Do not let the thing load the textures, that wastes time

[TriadFishVan]

Dragon's right on the money.

TXD.img is created by the game automatically if you're on a video card that doesn't support DXT texture compression. It contains all the uncompressed texture files for everything in the game. All you need to do is open it with IMGTool, find the texture for the car you're replacing, and replace the old texture with the new.

If you have a new video card, you probably don't even have TXD.img, so don't fret ;)

[Nemesis]

Just reinstall DirectX guys. Do not mess up with any files.

[Fazlee]

fab... thanks Neil...

[Oscar]

Ey, this might sound stupid, but if you reffer to the white car like the player skin when you put nothing on the bmp or you replace it with only white (only the structure, but no color and no effect of painting, etc), is because you have two txd on gta3.img with the same name, probably because you put a new mod, without deleting the old txt from the gta3.img (I think is the same with the dff file but I am not sure ), it happened to me a couple times when I began replacing cars, so find the latest cars you replaced and look if the txd appears 2 times.

Again, this could sound stupid, but happens.

See ya.

[Piggus]

I had this problem with both GTA3 and Vice. For GTA3 I used the GTA Mod Installer and it fixed the problem completly. I still have the problem with Vice City.

[TOMMY_MONTANNA]

but im geting white cars wit the vcm and the vcm cars and motorcycles and mabye the helis please solve my problem cause what neil is solving is the manual install mods not the vcm mods

[Olin]

Go to C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto Vice City\Models\, then delete 'txd.img' and 'txd.dir.'

If you don't have those files, then this won't be of any help to you.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

If you don't have the files your graphics card supports direct x texture compression. Then, the textures will load correctly. Unless its a dodgey mod.

Also with my old card that didn't support direct X texture compression, when I deleted those files I kept getting unhandled exception errors.

So back them up before you try it.

[bailmeout]

Originally posted by Neil
If you're getting white cars in Vice City, follow this procedure and it should all resolve itself.

1. Browse to C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Vice City (or wherever you installed it)

2. Open the Models directory

3. DELETE the file named GTA3.dir (Do not delete GTA3.img)

4. Restart GTA Vice City, and you should see a message informing you that the textures are being converted to an optimal format for your video card.

Unfortunately, you'll probably have to do this every time you install a mod. It's all because your card doesn't support DirectX Texture compression. A good solution would be to buy a new video card, anything above the Geforce 3 or ATi Radeon 8xxx range should do.

If you have any other problems, just reply to this thread.


new video card is a start :D something i really need to do
gecube radeon 9600 xt its decent isnt it?
as for the unhandled exception... dont most of the mods have the automatic shit anyway!!?

[ScoobyDoo82]

This isnt about mods but when I download Vice City it will download some files but not finish it will say insert disk 2 that contains something I forgot but anyway I inserted the play disk and somehow it got passed it so then It asked to insert disk 0 that contians the file data4.cab do you know why this is happening Neil , Please reply ASAP

[GhostCom]

I also got the white cars and after following the directions i also got the unhandled exceptions..BUT i did find a solution! - at least it workied for me :D

1. delete the gta_vc.set in GTA Vice City User Files
2. uninstall your current videocard drivers
3. borrow an old videocard from a friend. a TNT2 or GeForce2 will do it, and install it.
4. boot the computer and install an older nvidia driver.
5. start up GTA Vice City and select your desired screen resolution. i used 1024x768 @ 32 bit colors.
6. start the game and notice that it will convert the textures for optimal performance. what happens here is that the following files are created:
data\CAPS.DAT
models\txd.dir
models\txd.img

7. play the game a few minutes and exit.
8. uninstall the video driver.
9. shut the computer down and reinstall your own videocard.
10. boot the computer and install an older nvidia driver that matches your videocard. mine is a Asus GeForce3 TI500 and i used ASUS display driver version 56.72 for Win2K and XP from here:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/selectftp. aspx?l1_id=9&l2_id=2&l3_id=3&m_id=13&f_name=nv5672_2kxp.zip~zaqwedc

it should work for all GeForce 3 videocards regardless if it's an Asus or not.
11. now the important step to get rid of the unhandled exceptions!
This is done by turning off the antialiasing feature in the GeForce Properties window. To do this:

--Enter your Display Properties menu for your GeForce Card, and change the "Intellisample" settings to "Application." To do this:

Right-click on your Windows Desktop, and select "Properties" from the drop-down menu.

Click on the "settings" tab, found near the top of the Display Properties window, then click on the "Advanced" button.

Click on the GeForce FX tab near the top of the screen. This should open up a window displaying settings for your particular GeForce card. If a side-menu does not appear, click on the small green button on the left hand side of the window; a smaller window should appear on that side.

Click on the "Performance & Quality Settings" option.

On the Antialiasing Slider, click and drag the slider bar all the way to the left hand side to disable the Antialiasing. Click "OK" twice to close the windows.

One last thing! - A third-party feature pack for streaming video files, called "Nimo Codec Pack," has been known to cause a number of different problems when trying to install and run GTA: Vice City. If you do have this installed, it's recommended uninstalling the Nimo Codec Pack, then try to install the game.


phew..that was a lot of text but it works! (at least for me) :p

[cena]

big thx

[dragon lord]

It worked fine for me,thamks neil.

[kyle6186]

just add the txd file you get with the mod into the txd.img aswell and it works fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stevemaster]

how do i get it in vcmm i click download and it comes up open or save witch one do i do? i can't get them in my game can you help me?

-stevemaster

[icetuner]

It sometimes happen to me (I mean white objects) when I delete and then add files in the img archive without rebuilding. If I rebuild the archive the problem gets solved. Why does this happen?