So after years of deleting and resintalling, modding and rolling back to vanilla, and generally just playing it so much, my copy of GTA SA is really fucked up with a variety of glitches that recently have made it impossible to play.

Version info: Version 1.0 downgrade EXE. I use Silent's ASI loader instead of CLEO, along with Silentpatch and the Widescreen Fix. Those are the only mods I use.

If anyone has a solution to the following errors it would be great:

Audio Desync

So this has been the biggest problem for me thus far, and has gotten to the point where I can barely play five minutes of the game. Basically after a random amount of time, the audio won't sync up with the game and there will be a delay. For example, if CJ gets shot there will be a 5 to 10 second delay before he shouts out in pain. For some reason this really fucks with the game and leads to other errors along with crashing. It happens most frequently when getting shot or climbing up a wall (when CJ makes the grunt sound) but anything can trigger it.

Radio issues (technically solved)

The radio feature in the game was also pretty buggy for me. When I had the Radio sound on, it would play normally for a few songs until the audio would stutter and repeat. I fixed this by just muting the radio in the Audio tab.

That wasn't the only error. Then I was experiencing a glitch where the radio station would appear late. For example I would get into a car and after a few seconds "K-DST" would appear at the top of my screen. This would cause the game's FPS to tank for a few seconds and would lead to other errors like texture pop outs. I fixed this by removing all the radio files from the Streams folder in the audio directory.

Texture Errors

So this error comes in a lot of forms. Beforehand I would be playing the game for a few minutes but then the textures would slowly turn into the LOD files. The more I played, the more the textures would degenerate into lower detail levels until I was standing on an invisible blue hell world. I messed around with various patches and replacements for the game's Vorbis files and they had varying levels of success. It seemed to finally stop after I downloaded the Widescreen Patch and it's Vorbis file. Now it only happens as a side effect of the audio desync glitch that I mentioned above.

Another error is a common one I have seen with a lot of GTA SA players but it happens to be all the time and I can't find a solution. Basically, entering and exit interiors brings up a black screen as you all know. The same black screen appears when loading up a cutscene or side activity. For me I can only do this a limited amount of times before the game completely gives up and just stays at the black screen forever. Usually I can only enter and exit a safehouse to save because triggering any other activities would result in me having to force close the game with Task Manager. I HAVE THE FRAME LIMITER ENABLED, which should prevent this type of thing but it still happens.

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Because of all these errors, my GTA SA is really almost unplayable. In my current playthrough I am in Las Venturas and nearing 100 percent, but I can't continue through the game normally because any mission that's medium length or longer will cause one of this errors to happen.

If you have any solution to fix one of these errors, I'd be very grateful. < /div>