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Argonath RPG Community => Hardware/Software support => Resolved issues => Topic started by: Antonio. on July 26, 2011, 12:52:38 pm

Title: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Antonio. on July 26, 2011, 12:52:38 pm: Yeah, I just downloaded the game last night on my cousin's PC. The PC is pretty shitty.... but that wouldn't be the problem, would it? I tried f7, but chat doesn't appear... so if anyone knows the solution to this problem, please tell me.

:ps: I changed the resolution, still no help.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: sandisk125 on July 26, 2011, 01:05:51 pm: Can you show a screen of the invisible chat?
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Antonio. on July 26, 2011, 01:14:24 pm: Quote from: sandisk125 on July 26, 2011, 01:05:51 pm
Can you show a screen of the invisible chat?
Sure....

(http://i54.tinypic.com/30a5ijt.png)
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: jdixo17 on July 26, 2011, 02:27:18 pm: Have you tried reinstalling SAMP? Also, did you get the latest from the official SAMP site?
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Antonio. on July 26, 2011, 02:30:13 pm: Yeah... downloaded the mirror from SA:MP Team. SA:MP 0.3c R3 is what I got.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Leroy on July 26, 2011, 02:34:09 pm: Looks like resolution, try turning it up or down, down if your cousins monitor is small and up if its bigger.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Antonio. on July 26, 2011, 03:09:16 pm: It's small... turned it all the way down. I guess it's just not meant for SA:MP. :lol:
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Gandalf on July 26, 2011, 03:10:41 pm: Check on how many colours the setting is. Could be that you need minimal 256 colours.
Title: Re: Can\'t see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Antonio. on July 26, 2011, 03:13:15 pm: Quote from: Gandalf on July 26, 2011, 03:10:41 pm
Check on how many colours the setting is. Could be that you need minimal 256 colours.
Where can I check that? I mean I know it's using 32-bit system.
Post Merge: July 26, 2011, 03:37:52 pm
OK, so I right-clicked on the SA:MP icon, and on the GTA_SA.exe and clicked "properties". The I went on the "compatibility" tab, and clicked "Run in 256 colors". I checked that for both SA:MP icon and gta_sa.exe. There is also "Run in 640x480 resolution", "Disable visual themes", and "Turn off visual text services for this program". What do I need to do? I checked only 'Run in 256 colors', but the chat still doesn't show up in game.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Jellyfish on July 26, 2011, 04:09:47 pm: Had the same problem.
Downgrade from the SAMP 0.3 R3 version and this bug will be fixed.
Install an older version and everything will be back to normal.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: CaptainCrazy on July 26, 2011, 05:48:19 pm: Delete the "gta_sa.set" file inside your GTA San Andreas Userfile folder. Make sure you copy the file before you delete it if that isn't the problem.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: 9r2e5i3k on July 26, 2011, 05:59:39 pm: You could try /pagesize 20 in-game...

Also try different resolutions.

Also try different video drivers (including the default Microsoft Windows one).

Also I wouldn't run it in forced 256 colors, nor forced 640x480.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: SFTC on July 27, 2011, 12:13:28 am: Sure you are not with F7? try tipping it
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: sandisk125 on July 27, 2011, 01:13:05 am: Quote from: SFTC on July 27, 2011, 12:13:28 am
Sure you are not with F7? try tipping it
It's not the Problem..
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Jellyfish on July 27, 2011, 07:25:12 am: Quote from: Barney on July 26, 2011, 04:09:47 pm
Had the same problem.
Downgrade from the SAMP 0.3 R3 version and this bug will be fixed.
Install an older version and everything will be back to normal.

;) Try it

A note to everyone having this problem,pagesize only makes it worse.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: JasonSaint on July 29, 2011, 06:12:04 pm: same problem here -__-' tried everything except downgrading, cuz i couldnt find the download
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Jellyfish on July 29, 2011, 06:32:58 pm: Quote from: JasonSaint on July 29, 2011, 06:12:04 pm
same problem here -__-' tried everything except downgrading, cuz i couldnt find the download

Sadly that's the only thing that works

Here http://dracoblue.net/download/samp-client-03c/47/ (http://dracoblue.net/download/samp-client-03c/47/)
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: JasonSaint on July 29, 2011, 06:45:09 pm: Thank you very much barney! i,m going to try it now!

Edit: it worked i can see it now but the game won't connect
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Antonio. on July 30, 2011, 08:36:43 pm: You can lock this topic now. I won't be using cousin's comp, was just using it for about a week and downloaded SAMP to play it while I was bored.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: JasonSaint on July 30, 2011, 11:49:29 pm: Downloaded wrog version;p it is fixed now! Thanks barney!
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Julio. on August 01, 2011, 12:47:53 pm: theres buttons on the monitor that moves the screen up and down, try it.

Also try turning widescreen in the options off and on.
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Ted on August 02, 2011, 04:02:10 am: Hello.

I know this is quite late however this can be seen for future reference for you and others.

http://forum.sa-mp.com/showpost.php?p=1320582&postcount=4 (http://forum.sa-mp.com/showpost.php?p=1320582&postcount=4)

Quote from: Kalcor SA-MP forums.
For anyone with this problem, please try the following.

- Install the SA-MP 0.3c R3 client
- Download this zip containing a replacement samp.dll
http://www.sa-mp.com/stuff/samp_dll-03cR3-intel.zip (http://www.sa-mp.com/stuff/samp_dll-03cR3-intel.zip)
- Extract the samp.dll from the above zip file and paste it in to your GTA San Andreas folder, replacing the existing samp.dll
- Run the game and see if the chat screen works as expected
- If it works, please report so here
- If it doesn't work, please post the contents of your chatlog.txt, found in your GTA San Andreas\SAMP folder under My Documents. This file should contain the reason why it didn't work

Thanks
Title: Re: Can't see SA:MP chat when I get in game.
Post by: Jellyfish on August 02, 2011, 07:14:36 am: Beats degrading by a long run,although I did have the problem before this topic was ever created.
Thanks Axis :hurray: