Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

What works

Running the game. Walking around a bit, most missions, horse betting, setting stuff on fire, going on dates with girlfriends, driving, parachute. Pretty much everything I tested. (which is more than I could list here)

What does not

The game is slow. Most of the time it's acceptable, but fires slow down everything to a point where it's not acceptable anymore.

There is, however, a bigger problem (as fires can usually be avoided).  There is a bug in San Andreas that makes it impossible to complete the mission "stowaway" on slower systems. Your bike will never be able to keep up with the plane. This happens on Windows as well. The problem is this: the game is always slow on wine. Even without pixel shader, WINEDEBUG=-all, 640*480 16 bits and everything low on my Geforce 7900GTO and Athlon X2 4200+ (which should be more than enough), it's just impossible to get to the plane. The only way to complete the mission is to edit data/handling.cfg in your San Andreas directory and speed up the bike. With fMaxVelocity/fEngineAcceleration changed from 190/50 to 300/75 I was able to complete the mission.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Installation, lots of other stuff since the game is too big to test completely.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Some times gta may fail to start even when you haven't touched (modded) anything. In this case delete the file gta_sa.set inside  the Documents/GTA San Andreas User Files directory and restart the app. You will have to reset your gta sa settings.

CJ and peds are too dark

If cj isn't light correctly and appears very dark try disabling glsl. You can disable it using the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\UseGLSL > "disabled" Or use winetricks/playonlinux

If you have problems with slow play, go to your winecfg and disable support for Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader

Joysticks and joypads will create a conflict with the keyboard keys making the character (CJ) uncontrollable. Disable all controllers before running the game to avoid this issue.

Try this: winetricks d3dx9

In some cases this fix can backfire, doing that your game does not start anymore.Make a backup of your .wine folder or create new wineprefix for test before continuing.

1) Install the ugly plugins for gstreamer (the name of package depends of your distribuition)
2) Install the quartz and devenum: winetricks quartz devenum
3) Install ffdshow: winetricks ffdshow (during installation, check the box of MPEG1 and MPEG2)
4) Test your game.

If you can not start your game, restore the backup or back to original wineprefix. # 9127

If you have issues with fonts, try (type in the terminal): winetricks allfonts

this method extracts all audio from GTA San Andreas, includes all music, DJ chatter, ads, ­background sounds and cutscenes.

How to build

1) Get this archive: http://goo.gl/HRwGV

2) On terminal extract this archive with: tar xfv radio-free-san-andreas-0.2.tar.bz2

3) Go to extracted folder: cd radio-free-san-andreas-0.2

4) Type: ./bootstrap && ./configure

5) If a problem occurs, install the missing libraries and rerun the command ./configure until it runs without errors.

6) Build (type it): make

How to use

1) Go to src/ folder: cd src/

2) Create the folder where the files will be stored: mkdir ~/gta_sounds

3) Type: ./extract [your gta folder]/audio/streams/* [user folder]/gta_sounds ../metadata.conf

Do not use quotation marks or abbreviations (~), it will cause errors. If your path contains spaces, use a "\ " for a correct interpretation, for example:

./extract /home/mrk3004/Games/GTA\ San\ Andreas/audio/streams/* /home/mrk3004/gta_sounds ../metadata.conf

The first arguments are the files to extract from. Then comes the base directory to put the output files in, and lastly the file to read metadata from.

audio/streams/* extracts all the musics and sounds. To extract some in specific, follow the table below:

Visit www.sa-mp.com to get started.

The application used to get you playing online with hundreds of other players.

View the workaround by Ruslan posted below.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3780#Comment-52510