Why on earth would any company be so incredibly short sighted as to try to prevent the community from modding the game - at a time when most games come with a SDK as standard this seems incredibly short sighted!
GTA SA mods
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Why on earth would any company be so incredibly short sighted as to try to prevent the community from modding the game - at a time when most games come with a SDK as standard this seems incredibly short sighted!
Soldato
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If i remember rightly the patch which locked out the mod contect isnt really needed, so if its an old game, which mine is, then there is no real need to patch it, also if i remember correctly you can get something to downgrade your game, also best site i found for mods was GTAGarage, or something like that.
best site for mods ---> GTA WORLD MODS
Found out theres a mod that can work on any direct x game and this is what it looks like with gta sa.
Mod with pics
I tryed it but it messed up using someones settings ill have a tinker tho as it adds some nice stuff like cooler reflections and bloom but duno if ill use it fully tho yet. Still some great pics tho with it on.
If you get it make sure you go into the ini file and disable motion blur and disable the occlusion that gets rid of all the blur and the ugly noise on everything.
And under the reflection settings set reflection depth bias to 100 that gets rid of most of the flickering
Mod with pics
I tryed it but it messed up using someones settings ill have a tinker tho as it adds some nice stuff like cooler reflections and bloom but duno if ill use it fully tho yet. Still some great pics tho with it on.
If you get it make sure you go into the ini file and disable motion blur and disable the occlusion that gets rid of all the blur and the ugly noise on everything.
And under the reflection settings set reflection depth bias to 100 that gets rid of most of the flickering
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2x draw distance this one works bettter
Thanks for that.
Ohh that looks like a good mod Skeeter, will take a look at that to, thanks.
You know, I've had this game on the PC for ages and never played it once! For some reason, if the gta_sa.exe doesn't crash on start-up then in game the graphics are so messed up that it's unplayable. This is just a vanilla install too, straight from the DVD!
Guess I'll stick to the PS2 version.
Guess I'll stick to the PS2 version.
That's on :-
X2 4200+
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It just refuses to work, and when it does start whenever I rotate around the character all the textures start flashing like crazy and you can't see anything until you rotate back to where the camera was.
X2 4200+
2GB PC3200
512MB 7900GS
Creative Audigy
XP Home
It just refuses to work, and when it does start whenever I rotate around the character all the textures start flashing like crazy and you can't see anything until you rotate back to where the camera was.
Nah, just SA for some reason. At least I've got it on the PS2 though, although if I get a few hours spare one day I may try to get it working on the PC. No doubt, like you say, it's probably down to some bloody driver not liking another.
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Got that mod on, but i can't seem to get the motion blur, or the noise effect thing off, he looks like a cardboard cutout. 
Ive tried putting OcclusionQuality=0, and the MotionblurQuality=0 to, but it didn't seem to change.
EDIT:
Sorted that, i set all values to 0, now just need to get the HDR/Bloom or whatever it is down a bit as its to bright.
Looks great though, the reflections and that are class.
Ive tried putting OcclusionQuality=0, and the MotionblurQuality=0 to, but it didn't seem to change.
EDIT:
Sorted that, i set all values to 0, now just need to get the HDR/Bloom or whatever it is down a bit as its to bright.
Looks great though, the reflections and that are class.
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Got that mod on, but i can't seem to get the motion blur, or the noise effect thing off, he looks like a cardboard cutout.
Ive tried putting OcclusionQuality=0, and the MotionblurQuality=0 to, but it didn't seem to change.
EDIT:
Sorted that, i set all values to 0, now just need to get the HDR/Bloom or whatever it is down a bit as its to bright.
Looks great though, the reflections and that are class.
Any pics?
Perhaps in the 1280x.... screenshot thread?
If you have any spare time of course
.My config if any one wants to try
Code:
[PROXY]
EnableProxyLibrary=0
InitProxyFunctions=1
ProxyLibrary=
[GLOBAL]
UseEffect=0
AlternativeDepth=1
AllowAntialias=0
BugFixMode=3
SkipShaderOptimization=0
QuadVertexBuffer=0
[EFFECT]
EnableBloom=0
EnableOcclusion=0
EnableReflection=1
EnableMotionBlur=0
EnableWater=1
EnableShadow=1
DepthBias=0
[INPUT]
KeyUseEffect=123
KeyBloom=120
KeyOcclusion=121
KeyReflection=122
KeyCombination=16
KeyShadow=119
KeyWater=118
[REFLECTION]
ReflectionPower=15
ChromePower=10
UseCurrentFrameReflection=0
ReflectionQuality=0
ReflectionSourceSpecular=50
ReflectionSourceTFactor=50
UseAdditiveReflection=0
ReflectionDepthBias=300
UseLowResReflection=0
ReflectionSinglePass=1
UseEnvBump=1
EnvBumpAmount=100
EnvBumpOffset=100
[BLOOM]
BloomPowerDay=2
BloomFadeTime=1000
BloomConstantDay=4
BloomQuality=0
BloomScreenLevelDay=20
BloomCurveDay=4
BloomPowerNight=30
BloomConstantNight=5
BloomCurveNight=4
BloomScreenLevelNight=10
BloomAdaptationScreenLevel=90
BloomAdaptationMultiplier=20
BloomAllowOversaturation=0
[SSAO]
UseFilter=1
OcclusionQuality=0
FilterQuality=1
DarkeningLevel=20
BrighteningLevel=40
IlluminationLevel=30
AdditiveIlluminationLevel=20
UseAmbientOcclusion=1
UseIndirectLightning=1
FadeDistance=50
UseForAlphaTest=1
UseForAlphaBlend=1
[COLORCORRECTION]
DarkeningAmountDay=0
ScreenLevelDay=60
ScreenLevelNight=20
DarkeningAmountNight=-10
GammaCurveDay=8
GammaCurveNight=0
ColorSaturationDay=-2
ColorSaturationNight=0
UsePaletteTexture=0
[PLUGIN]
WeatherMod=0
[WATER]
UseWaterDeep=1
WaterDeepness=20
WaterQuality=0
[SHADOW]
ShadowFadeStart=70
ShadowFadeEnd=120
ShadowAmountDay=80
ShadowAmountNight=50
ShadowScreenLevelDay=60
ShadowScreenLevelNight=20
ShadowQuality=2
UseShadowFilter=1
FilterQuality=2
ShadowBlurRange=30
[ENGINE]
ForceAnisotropicFiltering=0
MaxAnisotropy=8
ForceDisplayRefreshRate=0
DisplayRefreshRateHz=60
[MOTIONBLUR]
MotionBlurQuality=1
MotionBlurVelocity=20
MotionBlurRotation=20