GTA Trilogy is quite playable once you adjust the brightness and contrast, drag and drop the mod folders, and add the launch arguments. All three games have an ugly outline on enemies you’re aiming at (Oh, but someone already modded that out) and CJ’s goddamn head is still a different color than the rest of him.
A bridge in San Andreas is invisible from most angles. Textures flicker in and out of existence. The art styles of different characters clash when they’re in scenes together. Models often have strange proportions or gangly, misshapen limbs.
Grove Street Games overhauled almost all aspects of the games’ visuals, including full texture and model replacement. The slow swimming, the missing animations, some of the iffy controls. The things that people took umbrage with regarding San Andreas‘ console release circa-2012 are still in place. The mobile-geared minigame changes are still here. But, what about the games themselves? As I said, these are basically the mobile ports plugged into Unreal 4. I can’t imagine that the massive amount of brand damage that’s been done was even remotely worth the launch profits. There was a reason all we got was a trailer with carefully chosen footage to hype it up. There was a reason that the GTA Trilogy was announced out of the blue a month before launch. Within a couple of days, lone modders figured it out and fixed what a giant publisher saw fit to just ignore. The rain is extra important because it points to a different problem. I’ve never had to mod such a new release just to play it before. The brightness and contrast defaults were just implemented incorrectly, but, the rain? I needed to mod the games to make that tolerable.
For games this old, it’s kind of shocking. But at 1440p, I get around 70 fps on average. GTA Trilogy runs a lot better if you force it to utilize Directx 12 via launcher settings, though.
The rain is so horrible that, sometimes I can’t even see what’s going on around me. The brightness and contrast are horribly out of whack at default settings. The framerate at 1440p often hung around 30 fps. Upon finally getting to boot the games up, I was greeted with more nasty surprises.
I didn’t even get to play the games until nearly four days after they launched due to Rockstar removing everything from both sale and download on the platform. Fans of the games, which there are many, are horribly unsatisfied by this, for good reason. Unsurprisingly, it just ported its three mobile versions into Unreal Engine 4, bugs and longstanding issues included, and slapped on a new coat of paint. Instead of doing that, Rockstar Games hired Grove Street Games, the mobile game developer famous for its shoddy mobile ports of the trilogy, to bring the three games closer to modern standards. I mention this, because, when one of the biggest publishers in the world remasters its three most beloved games, all it had to do was take the GTA Trilogy, add some quality of life improvements, dress up the graphics, and call it a day. “All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!” Big Smoke chides you upon each failure. The design is iffy, so the mission is easy to fail. THis is all I know, and if anyone knows of other ways to fix it please help me, for the above did not work for me.ĮPox-8k3a+ motherboard with integrated AC97 Digital audioġ.In one of the most famous missions in the entire franchise, CJ and Big Smoke are chasing a train. My Documents/GTA Vice City User Files" directory the "GTA_VC.SET" file. delete from the "Documents and Settings/Current logged-in User/ delete from the "Grand Theft Auto Vice City/data" directory the file delete from the "Grand Theft Auto Vice City/models" directory the files Hardware, to prevent having to un-install and re-install Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Vice City into an "invalid" settings state for the particular hardware. it may for you others,Ĭhanging either your video card or soundcard may mean that you get Grand Theft Auto: I have the problem where I cant get into my audio setup at all, "no audio hardware", There is a readme file in your games directory that has a few troubleshooting tips, although the tip that pertains to my problem does not work for me.