MTA:SA setup

MTA:SA on Android or iPhone

MTA:SA is a PC program. Its official requirements start at Windows 7, and the only other systems MTA documents are Linux, macOS and the Steam Deck, all by running the Windows client. MTA offers no phone version of the game.

Steps

Try one step, then check whether the problem is still there. Follow any "only if" line before changing a setting.

1. Check the official requirements

   MTA's client manual lists Windows 7 or newer, a keyboard and mouse, and a clean PC installation of GTA San Andreas version 1.0. The official installers are Windows programs.

2. What MTA documents for other devices

   The client manual has one line for other systems: Linux, macOS and the Steam Deck. Each of those runs the Windows client through Wine or Proton. Phones and tablets are not on that list.

3. MTA's team has said no

   On MTA's forum a member of the MTA team answered this in June 2020: MTA will never be ported to any mobile device. He gave two reasons. It would mean writing MTA again for a different platform, and the mobile game is a newer Rockstar release that MTA will not mod. In December 2020 a moderator repeated that a mobile build is not being considered.

4. The one "mobile" app on MTA's wiki is not the game

   MTA:SA Developers: Mobile is an app for scripters. The wiki says it shows the forum, the wiki and the community site, and lets you view and edit script files. It does not run the game.

5. Play on a PC instead

   To play MTA you need a Windows PC, or one of the systems above, with the classic GTA San Andreas installed. The Play GTA SA Online page in CIT Tools walks through it.

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• Play MTA:SA on a Steam Deck
• MTA:SA on a Mac

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