A Bug in GTA: SA Emerges After 20 Years
OPla G
yesterday 21:30
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0Upgrading to a new operating system always comes with various difficulties, such as older video games not working properly. But with Windows 11 version 24H2, something unusual happened. In the recently updated OS, a bug was discovered in GTA: San Andreas — a game that’s already over 20 years old — which had gone unnoticed all this time. The author of SilentPatch wasn’t the first to notice the issue, but he was the first to fix it and provide a detailed explanation.
In Windows 11 version 23H2, the Skimmer seaplane exists in the game and works, but after the update, it seems to have been removed. It no longer appears at its usual spawn point, not even when using a trainer.
In GTA: Vice City, the seaplane was categorized as a boat, but in GTA: SA it was reclassified as a plane. However, no additional parameters were added to the vehicle’s data. This didn’t cause any issues before 24H2, but changes in API handling broke everything.
To restore the Skimmer in GTA: San Andreas, follow these steps.
In Windows 11 version 23H2, the Skimmer seaplane exists in the game and works, but after the update, it seems to have been removed. It no longer appears at its usual spawn point, not even when using a trainer.
To restore the Skimmer in GTA: San Andreas, follow these steps.
- Open the data\vehicles.ide file using Notepad.
- Find line 460.
- Replace it with the following:
460, skimmer, skimmer, plane, SEAPLANE, SKIMMER, null, ignore, 5, 0, 0, -1, 0.7, 0.7, -1
- Save the changes.
