MTA:SA fix

NVIDIA Optimus warning or hybrid-GPU startup trouble

Use this when MTA offers an Optimus startup choice on a compatible laptop. Try each choice it offers, one at a time.

Steps

1. Try each choice MTA offers

   Only if the MTA startup dialog appears and offers Optimus choices.

   Note your original choice, then test each offered choice, one at a time. Do not do this on a PC that does not show that warning.

   Source: MTA help

2. Update the laptop’s graphics driver

   If neither offered choice works, go to your laptop maker’s or NVIDIA’s support page for your exact hardware and install the right driver.

   Source: MTA help

3. Update MTA and try again

   Install the current official MTA release and do the startup test again. If it still fails, tell MTA support which of the offered choices you tested and your laptop model.

   Source: MTA help, MTA download, MTA forum

Still not fixed? Copy the whole message, not only the code, and check your log in the Fix tool. It is read on your own computer.

Other problems like this

• GTA fails to open or crashes before MTA starts
• MTA reports low disk space
• MTA cannot find required Windows fonts
• MTA installer says the download is incorrect
• MTA will not start and shows no clear error
• Black screen or frozen logos when MTA starts

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