Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas FPS Tweaks & Lag Fix Patch For Low End PC (SA-MP Version)

Modification for: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Author: OsaMaleecius (Recompiled by BlackOne)

Release: 2014

Version: Final

Size: 1,61 MB

This mod will change Draw Distance, Textures (Particles, shadows) & Fix low FPS. It is compatible with San Andreas Multiplayer. Tested on very low PC & Notebook (No lags, no bugs).

Features

• Rip & no flying sounds resulting in great FPS increase overall
• Low resolution quality textures resulting in a bit more FPS
• A better looking modded timecyc with reduced draw distance resulting in great FPS increase
• No Splash Screen, disable the nVidia splash screen and opening videos
• No blood, no gun smoke, no gun flash, no gun shells resulting in a bit more FPS
• No small grass and leaves on grounds resulting in more FPS
• No moon, no stars, no coronas on headlights and postlamps resulting in a bit more FPS at night
• Black mirrors resulting in small FPS increase when you are near some mirror
• No motion blur, no heat haze resulting in more FPS on high speeds or hot weather
• No clouds (Especially no laggy clouds at high altitudes)
• No target blip over heads when you aim at someone resulting in a small FPS increase
• No lightning on vehicles making them appear a bit dark resulting in a small FPS increase

Tools:

1. Game Booster (http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html)
2. TXD Workshop (http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/download.php?f=27168)

Installation:

1. Get a clean install of GTA San Andreas v1.0 without any mods.
2. Open the game. Go to Options > Display Settings > Advanced. Turn Draw Distance to minimum. Turn off Frame Limiter. Set FX Quality to Low. Set Anti-aliasing to Off. Set Mip-mapping to Off. Reduce Screen Resoultion to 800x600x32 or 800x600x16. Then, close the game.
3. Copy sa-mp.cfg from this folder to My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\SAMP\ folder (For Windows XP users) or Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\SAMP\ folder (For Windows Vista or Windows 7 users).
4. Copy all files from "Fix Patch" folder to your ...\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\ main folder. Replace any files if asked.
5. Open TXD Workshop. Click Open IMG button. Navigate to your GTA San Andreas\models folder and open gta3.img. Type tree_hipoly19.dff in search box at bottom-left of screen. Right-click tree_hipoly19.dff in the panel above search box. Choose Replace from the menu. Navigate to this folder and select tree_hipoly19.dff included in the folder. Close TXD Workshop.
6. Open TXD Workshop. Click Open IMG button. Navigate to your GTA San Andreas\models folder and open gta3.img. Type sniper.txd in search box at bottom-left of screen. Click sniper.txd in the panel above search box. Click SNIPERcrosshair file in middle panel. Click Import button. Navigate to this folder and select SNIPERcrosshair.png included in the folder. Click Save TXD button. Close TXD Workshop.
7. Open GTAShrinkerWin.exe included in this download. Type your correct GTA San Andreas directory in box. If you typed correctly, it will display the current condition of your GTA whether it is shrinked or not. Click Shrink button to shrink your gta3.img. Wait for it to complete shrinking. Close the program when it has finished shrinking.
8. Open Game Booster. Turn off everything including explorer.exe to maximum free RAM for game.

Notes:

1. There's simple things you could do too to increase your fps, go to start menu, right clicking on your computer, click properties. If your on windows 7 or any newer type click advanced system settings then advanced tab or if your on windows xp and lower just go ahead and click advanced tab then under performance click settings, then check off Adjust for best performance and apply that. And to make your game better, go to your game, Alt + Tab, then Ctrl + Alt+ Del to open up task manager, go to processes, right click on gta_sa.exe and set priority to real time (if that makes your game slow, laggy, or gives you any packetloss set it back or close your game and open it again). And right click gta_sa.exe again in processes, and click set affinity, then click all cores.
2. If you have radio lag when you entered vehicle, go to ...\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\audio\streams Then delete or move CH, CO, CR, DS, HC, MH, MR, NJ, RE, RG, TK.
3. You can remove "nosound" line from ...\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\StreamSAMP.ini to hear all sounds again.
4. You can remove "nocolfx" line from ...\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\StreamSAMP.ini to enable collision smoke, sparks and exhaust from vehicle engines.
5. You can check the Stream Ini Extender Readme for details about all lines which can be included in StreamSAMP.ini and their respective configurations.

Video

Download: Google Drive | MediaFire

Credits:

• GTAShrinkerWin.exe
  http://www.Plod.mooo.com
• StreamIniExtender.cs
  Original by Deji ; Made to work for SAMP by Jur1zz (http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=463745)
• timecyc.dat
  Extreme Draw Distance timecyc by someone at kfcgang.net. Modified by OsaMaleecious.
• effects.fxp
  Trip[ABK]
• effectsPC.txd
  Trip[ABK]
• particle.txd
  Trip[ABK]

This mod was compiled into 1 mod by OsaMaleecius http://osamaleecious.blogspot.com and re-compiled by BlackOne (Me) with new additions. You can redistribute/share this file as you like.

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