GTA San Andreas on PC

GTA San Andreas broken mirror reflections or missing sun lens flare

Single player: mirror reflections break when Anti-Aliasing is on, or the sun's lens flare is missing or very thin on an AMD or Intel graphics card. SilentPatch fixes both.

Steps

1. Single player: install SilentPatch

   SilentPatch's page lists fixes for: mirror reflections that break when Anti-Aliasing is on; the sun lens flare not showing on AMD and Intel graphics cards; and graphics errors from people's animations when the game uses a lot of RAM (the "streaming memory bug"). These work with the 1.0, Steam and Rockstar Games Launcher copies. PCGamingWiki also gives SilentPatch as the fix for the reflections and the lens flare. Download it from the author's page, silentsblog.com/mods/gta-sa/.

   Careful: Single player only. Before you play MTA, MTA asks you to delete every .asi file from the GTA and MTA folders. Its own example is SilentPatch's file. If you also play MTA, read the last step first.

   ASI plugins or a game-folder DLL block MTA →

   Source: SilentPatch page, PCGamingWiki, PCGamingWiki, MTA help

2. SilentPatch needs an ASI Loader

   SilentPatch needs an ASI Loader. Its page links Silent's ASI Loader, further down the same page. On the Rockstar Games Launcher copy, use Ultimate ASI Loader instead. The page links it too.

   Source: SilentPatch page, SilentPatch author blog

3. Put the files in the game folder

   Open your game folder. Steam: right-click the game, choose Manage, then Browse local files. Rockstar Games Launcher: click Settings, click the game in My installed games, then click Open next to View installation folder. Disc copy: right-click the game's shortcut and choose Open file location. Then right-click each downloaded .zip file (SilentPatch and the ASI Loader), choose Extract All, set the game folder as the destination and click Extract. If Windows says the destination has files with the same names, choose Replace the files in the destination.

   Careful: Single player only. Before you play MTA, MTA asks you to delete every .asi file from the GTA and MTA folders. Its own example is SilentPatch's file. Do not do this in the GTA folder that MTA uses (see the last step).

   ASI plugins or a game-folder DLL block MTA →

   Source: SilentPatch setup page, MTA help

4. Keep a clean GTA copy for MTA

   SilentPatch is for single player only. MTA's manual says the GTA copy for MTA should have no mods, because they may conflict with MTA. To keep SilentPatch, install GTA a second time in another folder. Use the copy without mods for MTA.

   Using GTA mods with MTA →

   Source: MTA wiki, MTA help

See also: GTA San Andreas stretched picture, widescreen or missing resolution, GTA SA crashes near escalators, vending machines or car explosions

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