When trying to play my backed up copy of GTA 3, the saved games won't load up. As soon as I select load a game it acts like it's trying to and suddenly I'm at my desktop with no game in sight. Anybody know a remedy for this?

Sounds like you have a bad cracked EXE on it. There was a fix released to patch the original ISO ages ago.

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ok this is my first message so take it easy..........i have a copy of GTA3 which i have clocked........what u need to do is apply the official patch from rockstars website and then play the game......if u have a pirated version it should still work