GTA: San Andreas - NoCD Problems

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hi all,i was having the same crash to desktop problem as other people,i tryed a lot of things to fix it patches etc but in the end i sorted it out by simply doing the following(cant take credit fould it on sum forum)
a) Make sure that your windows log-in account has a password, the change that you have to make doesn't allow a blank password to be entered.

b) Second click "gta_san.exe" (usually in Program Files > Rockstar Games) > "Run As" > "The following user"

c) Select the user you have a passoword for, type in password, press OK.

d) Log out (if you dont the game runs really slow for some reason)

5. Log back in and play the game!!
the game now works fine for me so hopfully it might sort yours out.