Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

What works

You can install and run it successfully in a Windows machine.

What does not

It simply refuses to run with following message:

0024:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION

Workarounds

You can install it successfully in a Windows virtual machine or baremental.

It is not installable on wine (4.0/5.0/5.0.1/5.13 tested).

Workaround is to install it on Windows and copy files from install location to Linux machine.

What was not tested

Nothing could be tested because it does not run at all.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

It used to run on wine 4.0 (from Debian repos) on my Debian 10 Buster installation.

Then I switched to Debian Bullseye with wine 5.0-4 (from Debian repos). It stopped running. At that time, it gave no output on console. The command "wine /path/to/gta-vc.exe" or "wine start /path/to/gta-vc.exe"  ran like the command "sleep 3" would have run. i.e. nothing happened except the command ran for a few seconds without any output and then exited automatically.

Then I installed winehq-stable (5.0.1) from winehq repos and results were same except it showed following error message:

0024:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION

Then I installed winehq-devel (5.13) from winehq repos and still the same error message.

Admin note: the instructions below are extremely old and may not apply to current Wine. Follow at your own risk. 

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In this HowTO I use Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy with wine 1.1.3.

Install the game ­

1. Mount the install CD (this is distribution and configuration-dependent)
   
2. Using the terminal, browse into the mounted CD directory and type "wine setup.exe" (without quotes)
3. When Setup menu appears, select your preferred options (selecting radio station requires the second CD)
4. When the installer asks for second CD, type in another terminal "wine eject" and mount the second CD (or image). (For me worked too without wine eject, I simply unmounted and Re mounted second image)
5. When installation finishes you must disable the CD check by using a crack . Backup the original EXE before applying the crack.

 You may also want or need the following steps to configure GTA:VC

Configuring Wine for GTA:VC

1. Run wine configuration (or type winecfg in terminal)
2. Add an application and select your "GTA VC exe"
3. In graphical options enable all first 4 options (from Directx .... to Enable virtual desktop) and set Virtual desktop to 800x600.
4. Now you can start GTA VC (be sure "Vice City Play" is mounted or inserted, My crack tries to find CD, but will accept both the original or the image).
   

If you get this kind of crash and your resolution is set down to nonsense, execute the command "xrandr -s 0" on a Konsole window or a XTerm.

Make sure the option "Allow the window manager to control the windows" in winecfg (tab "Graphics") is activated.

To kill off a running, but not responding, GTA (and any other programs/processes that Wine is running), run "wineserver -k". You may need to log in to a text-only terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 (on most distributions).