Quit all other applications and insert the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Install disc into your CD-Rom drive. • Ensure you are logged in using an account which has administrative privileges. • Mount the downloaded game disc image or insert CD into drive. • Drag the icon. Aren't afraid of calling for backup, before you know it a. Clean your disk, disk player, and PC Get your hard drive clean and in order Use the latest updates Turn off unnecessary applications before running the game and. Glenster's Some of Vice City Starter Saves The convenience of copies of your GTA Vice City User File Some advice about saving the game A.

Download Now- Grand Theft Auto - Backup is a must have program for any GTA PC player, modder or not! GTA Backup 2.0 is currently in development. Please see for more details and future features. What Is GTA - Backup?

GTA - Backup is a small application that will automatically backup your saved games when you launch a GTA game though this program. What Games Does GTA - Backup Work With? This application will backup your saved game for GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and Episodes From Liberty City.

Do I Really Need GTA - Backup? Every PC gamer has lost saved games due to a bad mod, hard drive problem or accidental deletion.

Unfortunately it is only after you have lost a saved game this question will be answers for you. So save yourself the pain of having to start your game over, by downloading GTA – Backup before it is too late. How Do I Install GTA - Backup?

Simply extract your download (grand_theft_auto_backup_v1. Stephenie Meyer Midnight Sun Italiano Pdf Merge here. 4.0.zip) to your desired location. When you run GTA - Backup for the first time, click the settings button and check the paths for each game are correct. The default settings should be correct if you installed your games with the default settings, other than GTA IV & EFLC. GTA IV & EFLC require you to select your saved games location. Subsonic Labs Wolfram Downloads.

When Does A Backup Get Done? By default GTA - Backup will check if a backup is required (Will check if the saved game file has changed) while you are playing (every 15 minutes) and when you close your GTA game. You can however customize when GTA - Backup will check your saves, by selecting to backup Pre Run, During Run (Every 15 minutes) or Post Run. Where Do Backups Get Saved? GTA - Backup puts your backed up saved games in a “backup” folder in the save location as your saved games. In this folder there is a child, parent, grand parent and archive structure.

Child backups are your most recent, then parent backups, then grand parent backups followed by archive backups which are compressed to save space. How Can I Show My Appreciation? By simply posting a thank you comment on GTA Garage or GTA Forums, I will know my time and effort has been worth wile.

And if you are feeling very generous you can donate a little something (even just a £1 or $1) via the PayPal link on my website (see above). Version 1.1.0 has now been released Change Log ---- Application ---- (Added) New organization system. Now uses 'child', 'parent', 'grandparent' and 'archive' folder structure (Added) Check to see if saved game has actually changed from last backup (Added) Compress saved games (only active on 'archive' backups) (Fixed) Program not closing.dat files after reading them ---- games.dat ---- (Fixed) Saved game name regular expression for II, VC & SA in games.dat (Fixed) Game location for IV in games.dat (Fixed) EXE name for IV & EFLC in games.dat. Version 1.3.1 has now been released.

Had requests from a couple of users to add an option to remove GTA games that are not installed. I have now added an 'Is Installed' setting for each game.

When you first run GTA - Backup you will need to edit teh setting to let the application know what GTA games you have installed. Change Log ---- Application ---- (Added) Is Installed setting for games (Updated) READ ME.txt If you have any feedback please post it in this topic. I would like to know how people are getting on with my program, and if there are any ways you feel it can be improved. @SilentPL: That is a good idea. I have a couple of other ideas I'm working on just now but will look into that and give you a PM if I need some help. Version 1.4.0 has now been released. Change Log ---- Application ---- (Added) Backup while playing game option (Checks every 15min) (Misc) EXE Path & Saved Games Path text boxes turn red if file/folder does not exist ---- settings.dat ---- (Fixed) Game location for III in settings.dat If you have any feedback please post it in this topic.

I would like to know how people are getting on with my program, and if there are any ways you feel it can be improved. Other than any bug fixes, this will be the last release for a while. I have started work on v1.5 which is a complete re-code (code was messy to start with, and got worse as I added new features) and will include a mod install/backup function. Due to other projects I am working on my spare time is limited, so I don't know when I'll be done with v.1.5. I would say that if you like the program give me some feedback.

So far for the 500-600 downloads I've had accross GTA Garage and my website, I have only had two people post feedback. Project On Hold I have recently moved my final Windows machine to Linux. Although this is good for me and many of my other projects, it means all my Visual Studio based projects are on hold.

GTA Backup however is one of the few that I do plan to migrate to another language and continue work on. This will not only allow me to continue the project, but will also allow me to support the Linux GTA players (who play with using WINE). I expect to have GTA Backup rewritten in another language by Feb 2013, so expect beta versions of 1.5.0 around March. I will be needing Windows testers, so if you currently use GTA Backup and want to help out, PM me and let me know.

Project Update After posting the GTA V backgrounds I had another look at GTA Backup. Due to the source code being a mess and new ideas requiring a different approach the current code is not much use, so 1.5.0 has been scrapped. Instead I have started writing GTA Backup 2.0 from scratch.

GTA Backup 2.0 will include all previous features as well as; Support for GTA 1, London & GTA 2. ASI launcher (thanks SilentPL for the ideas and help). And other additional small features and advanced settings. The biggest new feature will be a new Modification backup utility, which will allow you to backup game files before you install mods. Time is short so I have no release date (if you want it sooner nip over to my website and hit the donate button ), although all previous features have been implemented into GTA Backup 2.0 and I am well into adding the new features.

If you have any ideas for things you'd like in GTA Backup, just post and let me know. Well, it's been a long time since we had any GTA Backup updates.

After having a few friends ask about adding GTA V support for the PC version coming out, I've decided to start work on GTA Backup again. I'm not working on version 2 which I mentioned above. Instead I'm updating the current version with GTA V support as well as support for a hand full of custom games (for total conversion mods like Vice City Stories), a better GUI (like you'll see in my GTA Launcher program) and a few other little additional features.

As always I am happy to hear your suggestions and take them on board. The features of version 1.5 however are locked down and wont change, as I want to get it released in time for you to enjoy GTA V, knowing your saved games are safe.

And here comes the mooching bit. As you know GTA Backup is 100% free with no adverts, therefore I don't make a penny out of it. If you use and like GTA Backup or if it has saved one of your saves, nip over to the and donate a few quid to show your appreciation and help me put more time into the developement.