Ok, the first thing I would do, is go to either www.fileplanet.com or www.gamespot.com and see if there is a patch for the game to prevent this. There may even be a patch at this site that you can download, as well. The second thing I would do, is go to the microsoft windows update page, and check for updates for your system(security updates, drivers, etc). I hope that helps. If ya need any other help, let me know.
my computer keeps restarting itself when i play gta san andreas and i dont know why its doing it it always happens when i get into fights and stuff i trid lowering the resolution and visule effects but nouthing and when its done restarting i get a message that says windows has recoverd from a seirous error and i dont know what happend and i bought my computer a year ago so can somebody help me is ther something i can download or adjust to fix this problem this is really getting on my neves i cant even make it across town and before my computer restarts i always get a blue screen that says driver_irql_not_less_or_equal what dose that mean please help me and i dount think overheating is the problem but i apperacite all help espicaly by people who had the same problem and fixed it and as far as i know this is the system info
eMachines
W3052
AuthenticAMD
AMD Sempron(tm) 3000+
1991 MHz
166 MHz
and my video card is nvidia geforce4 mx intergrated gpu

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