Fix Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error GTA Vice City in Windows 10

How to fix Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode GTA Vice City error in Windows 10

Cannot Find 640x480 Video Mode

The most exciting Grand Theft Auto Vice City from Rockstar Games is throwing “Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode” Error when users try to open the application. GTA is the widely played and the most popular action game ever that made the childhood of millions of people full of thrill. All of a sudden, an error forcing you to abstain from playing it doesn’t sound interesting really.

Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error in GTA Vice City is not so much complicated rather, you can fix it easily by tweaking the game for compatibility mode. Today in this write-up, we will show you the hotfix to resolve this error easily.

Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode

Here is How to Fix Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error in Windows 10 –

1] Modify the Game Compatibility to fix 640×480 video mode error

Oftentimes, tweaking the game compatibility resolve Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error in Windows 10. This is the easiest and most convenient resolution used by most of the people facing the mentioned error. To modify the settings, follow the below steps –

  1. First of all, open File Explorer and navigate to the below-given directory –

C:\Program Files (x86)\Grand Theft Auto Vice City

OR

C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto Vice City

  1. In the destination folder, right-click gta-vc application extension.
  2. If you have a desktop shortcut of the same, then do a right-click on it. Select Properties option from the context menu.
  3. When the popup opens, enter into Compatibility tab.
  4. Check the box that reads “Run this program in compatibility mode for:“.
  5. Click the dropdown menu below and choose Windows 10.
  6. Proceed forward to Settings area and check the box set for Run in 640×480 screen resolution.
  7. Also, check the box that says “Run this program as an administrator“.
  8. Now, click the Apply button followed by tapping OK.
  9. Close the popup window and run the game.

By now, hopefully, you have already fixed Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error in Windows 10.

2] Add ddraw.dll file manually to the Game folder

Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error in Windows 10 can show up in a system due to missing dynamic link library (.dll) file in the game folder. Usually, the Graphics card driver must have all sorts of DLL files to open up any game but that doesn’t happen always. Likewise, the ddraw.dll may be absent in your operating system leading to the error. Therefore, we can manually download this file and add to the game folder and try running the GTA Vice City.

Basically, there are three versions of GTA Vice City namely Crack, Steam, and retail where you cannot use this workaround for Steam version. Adding external files will violate Steam’s terms and conditions and you might be in trouble. In case of using the Crack and retail versions of GTA Vice City, follow the below guidelines to fix 640×480 Video Mode Error –

  1. Open a web browser and visit this link to launch the web page directly.
  2. From this page, click Download button checking the compatibility of it with your system configuration.
  3. Once the download gets over, open the zip file to extract it in a folder.
  4. Copy the downloaded ddraw.dll file from the extracted folder.
  5. Now, if you have a desktop shortcut for GTA Vice City, right-click it.
  6. Select Open file location to navigate to game folder.
  7. In case the Desktop shortcut is not there, go to the following path –

This PC\Local Disc(C:)\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto Vice City

  1. Paste the ddraw.dll file here in this folder.
  2. Close the folders and try opening GTA Vice City.

Hopefully, you will not encounter Cannot Find 640×480 Video Mode Error in Windows 10 anymore.

Methods:
1] Modify the Game Compatibility
2] Add ddraw.dll file manually to the Game folder

That’s all!!

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  1. thanks it worked for me, but instead of choosing run in compatibility mode for Windows 10 I choose windows 7 and it worked fine… By the way I am using windows 10