Rockstar "FIXS" San Andreas for 10th Anniversary

[Grim Monk]

The Joys of Digital Distribution...

San Andreas updated on Steam:
http://www.rockstarnexus.com/articl...ated-on-Steam-removes-songs-and-reverts-fixes

• Adds support for XInput controllers (Xbox 360 controller)

• Makes "Steering with Mouse" enabled by default

• Removes several songs for all owners (Seems to be same songs that were cut from the mobile version. We would have liked to see a situation similar to VC where only new Steam copies had songs removed and those who had purchased it before got to keep the songs.)

• Removes several resolution options, including 1920x1080 (This was broken in the original version, then fixed in an update - now unfixed with this latest update)

• Loading a game save from the original version just starts a new game

Latest GTA: San Andreas Steam Patch Removes Licensed Music:
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2014/1...as-steam-patch-removes-licensed-music/116307/

The latest Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas patch on Steam, which adds Xbox 360 controller support and a few other things, but removes seventeen songs from the game, including:

PLAYBACK FM
“Critical Beatdown”

K-DST
“Running Down A Dream”
“Woman To Woman”

Bounce FM
“You Dropped A Bomb On Me”
“Yum Yum”
“Running Away”

Radio Los Santos
“I Don’t Give A f*ck”
“Express Yourself”

Radio X
“Killing in the Name of”
“Hellraiser”

K-Jah West
“Ring My Bell”
“Don’t Let It Go To Your Head”

MasterSounds 98.3
“Express Yourself”
“Rock Creek Park”
“Grunt”
“Soul Power ’74”
“The Payback”
[UPDATE] "Funky President" also removed. [UPDATE]

These are the same songs that were removed when the game was released on iOS. The songs were reportedly removed due to their rights expiring.
This change affects all Steam owners of the game, regardless of when they purchased the game.

 

[sexbad?]

:russia:

 

[St. Toxic]

Errr...

 

[baturinsky]

 

[Cadmus]

lol "DONT CRY ABOUT STEAM YOU IDIOTS ITS GOOD FOR YOU"

 

[garren]

Wow. If I owned the game on Steam I would demand a full refund.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I have an xbox version of SA lying around with the soundtrack intact.

PC master-what?

 

[garren]

I have an xbox version of SA lying around with the soundtrack intact.

PC master-what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

 

[Astral Rag]

The loss of those absurdly high resolutions is no big deal since the human eye can't see beyond 900p@30fps anyway

I wonder if mods still work...

 

[Astral Rag]

I just installed this:

left mouse button only works occasionally in menus
image is stretched
controlling the camera with mouse only works from time to time
game crashed when I tried using Asi Loader
moving camera "too far" up

results in:

Spoiler

Using the framerate limiter caps the framerate at 26fps, which is of course the framerate most PC gamers desire in 2014.

Another excellent job R*, thanks.

 

[iZerw]

1. PB
2. Widescreen Fix Remake

 

[Curious_Tongue]

When I read San Andreas update, I thought they were doing something cool like this.

 

[Surf Solar]

Makes for a great impression for the upcoming pc port of gta v doesnt it

 

[Roguey]

Losing the song that California Love sampled is harsh. Good thing I have the DVD version (and got 100% and have no intention of touching it again).

Using the framerate limiter caps the framerate at 26fps, which is of course the framerate most PC gamers desire in 2014.

It was the same deal with the original release, which capped it at 25. The game was designed with that framerate in mind (we're talking ps2/xbox generation here) and unlocking it can result in oddities.

 

[St. Toxic]

When I read San Andreas update, I thought they were doing something cool like this.

Now that's interesting. How'd they handle the skill system, d'yknow?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

1. PB
2. Widescreen Fix Remake

I wonder if the "modders will fix it" mantra still applies if the developers have intentionally broken their game. That's more like necromancy than a repair job. Modders will raise it?

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http://steamcommunity.com/app/12120/discussions/0/613941122655744028/


Look at all them shills


edit: haha, someone actually did the "gamers r entitled" argument without a hint of irony

The sense of entitlement is strong in this thread.

Next you buy a CD, I will personally remove some tracks from it ok?

You didn't buy music, however. You bought the license to play a video game. What the developers do to that game is entirely up to them, and they removed some music tracks to avoid an expensive fiasco of a lawsuit from music labels. Does it suck that you won't hear some of your favorite tracks in the game? Of course, yes. Is it illegal that the developer patched out licensed content they no longer own the rights to use? Not at all. They have the right to make changes to their product at any time without warning.

just kneel and suck it, gosh so troublesome

You're paying for San Andreas, not the songs. They can change the songs around just like Netflix can change the movies around.

So they could just change the sounds and songs into farts, would the game be what I payed for?
They have no right to remove content from the game. I can still listen Billie Jean in Vice City but it is removed from later versions sold. Why remove songs from San Andreas?

It's probably down to something similar to Patent Trolling. In theory a company could buy some rights to some old music scores and then start's trying to threaten to sue anyone using an expired license. (especially companies that have made alot of money)
That would be the reason why such companies as Rockstar might capitulate. Your anger shouldn't be at Rockstar but at the companies that now hold those music score licenses.

The company that has made a lot of money is fucking over old customers so they don't have to lose some of that money, don't be mad at them.

Just by a retail version of the game?

Buy a second copy of the game to show Rockstar how disappointed you are. #OccupyGaben

 

[Clockwork Knight]

And now for something completely different useful.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/12120/discussions/0/34096318964479523/

ESSENTIAL PATCH (Silent Patch)

Unofficial fan-patch download:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46581994/patchsatest/silentpatch_11_beta.zip

Asi loader download:
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=21709

1. Download silent patch 1.1, unzip, paste .asi AND .ini file in San Andreas directory.
2. Download asi loader 1.3, unzip, paste 2 vorbis files in San Andreas directory.

CHANGELOG:


* 14ms frame delay has been removed. As a result, game now locks properly on 30 FPS instead of 25 FPS
* Game FPS has been limited to 1000 FPS (with Frame Limiter off) to prevent freezing during fadeout moments
* Mouse should not lock up randomly when exiting the menu on newer systems anymore
* NUM5 is now bindable (like in 1.01)
* 16:9 resolutions are now selectable (like in 1.01)
* A heap corruption in one place is now fixed (did not affect gameplay but could potentially make the game
crash)
* EAX/NVIDIA splashes are now removed (can be toggled on/off; OFF by default)
* Subtitle and Radio text sizes can now be toggled between the original release and updated Steam version
(defaults to Steam sizes)
* Area name colour now matches the gang colour of the gang that owns that territory (Los Santos only)
(can be toggled on/off; DISABLED by default)
* Wet road reflections render properly again (just like with Road Reflections Fix)
* Helicopter rotors and plane propellers now work correctly. They now have a blurring effect present
in VC and PS2 version of SA
* Hunter interior does not dissapear when viewed through the glass door panel
* Dual rear wheels now show up properly (Yosemite, Tanker etc.)
* Weapons are now visible when viewed through a vehicle window
* Holding a weapon will not cause some objects to be incorrectly lit anymore
* Blown up vehicles are now correctly coloured and no longer shine (like in 1.01 and Steam versions)
* Dirty cars are now able to get clean (like in 1.01)
* Each car has an unique numberplate now
* Custom numberplates now show up correctly in all cases
* Custom numberplates are now also allowed on bikes
* Numberplates are now bilinear filtered, resulting in a smoother look
* Vehicle lights do not get dark after being being initially lit anymore (like on PS2)
* Detached vehicle parts will now remain the same colour as the vehicle they came from
* Moonphases now show up correctly, like on PS2 version (only when playing in 32-bit colour mode)
* Toggling car lights on does not make windows invisible when viewed from inside anymore
* Illumination value from timecyc.dat now accepts any float value in 0.0-2.0 ranges,
not just 0.0, 1.0 and 2.0
* In addition, if illumination value is absent from the timecycle (like on a stock PC timecycle),
the game will now default to 1.0
* Lights now get casted on vehicles and peds properly - previously, they'd dissapear under some conditions
* In addition, when playing on Visual FX Quality higher than low, the game will now cast up to 6 lights
on each model both indoors and outdoors (on Low details, game's stock behaviour has been kept - allowing
up to 4 lights per model outdoors and 6 indoors)
* Introduced several fixes for rendering objects with an alpha channel, including an experimental
two-pass rendering mode (see SilentPatchSA.ini for more details; can be toggled on/off, DISABLED
by default)
* Muzzle flash looks better now
* Coronas' don't have a Z test forced all the time now - as a result, sunglare now matches original
PS2 version
* Night Vertex Colours are now handled by a shader - as a result, transistion from day to night vertex
colours is now smooth, just like on PS2 version
* With User Tracks automatic scan enabled, MP3 playback will now work properly if QuickTime is
not installed
* User Tracks now supports the FLAC codec (Only 8/16/24bits, Mono/Stereo and up to 48Khz)
* PCM WAVE has been expanded to also accept additional profiles (Now 8/16/24bits, Mono/Stereo
and up to 48Khz)
* PCM WAVE files with an ID3-TAG will now also work with the game
* Temple and Queens are now correctly called on the police scanner
* Travelling far away from the map will no longer trigger the extra gang territories glitch, nor
will it corrupt the Taxi Driver submission
* Gym glitch ("You have worked out enough..." showing infinitely) has been fixed (can be toggled
on/off; ENABLED by default)
* Saving in Madd Dogg's mansion will no longer trigger the missing basketball glitch (can be toggled
on/off; ENABLED by default)
* Impound garages now function correctly, allowing the player to recover his last vehicle after it
had vanished after a mission start
* In addition, impound garages will now store player's car when he's busted
* Streamed entity list has been expanded a bit, so now the game world shouldn't flash when
looking down with high Draw Distance settings anymore
* Mouse rotates an airbone car only with Steer with Mouse option enabled
* Towtruck tow hitch does not get bugged after it has been fixed anymore
* Plane doors don't corrupt after the plane has been fixed anymore
* Fixing a plane will now reset its moving props to an undamaged state
* Several vehicle components (most notably, Rumpo's front bumper and Bandito's moving prop)
will not get glitched after the vehicle has been fixed anymore
* Weapons and a jetpack now cast proper shadows
* Crosshair doesn't mess up weapon icon when on a jetpack anymore
* Free resprays will not carry on a New Game now
* Previously present only on PS2, 'Cars drive on water' cheat is now toggleable - its string is SEAROADER
* Fixed a 1.01 only tiny memory leak which occured every time the player switched a radio station
* Steam version has proper aspect ratios now
* IMG size checks have been removed from the Steam version
* Steam version of the game will not reject 1.0/1.01 saves anymore (still, a compatible SCM
is needed for the save to work)

 

[dnf]

Rockstar said: You wanna get slapped Bitch?

 

[Grim Monk]

My guess is they had to either pay to license the music to keep selling the game, or would need to pull it. They probably decided it wasn't worth the money.

No excuse for the current rubbish situation.

When this came up with Vice City they simply created a new app id.
New buyers get a version with songs cut, but the old customers got to keep the soundtrack intact...

 

[balmorar]

Steam, the saviour of PC gaming.

 

[Outlander]

They removed Hellraiser?!?!

 

[baturinsky]

IMHO, really good OST was only in Vice City. In SA I liked only K-Rose and may be half of K-DST (including Running Down A Dream)

 

[St. Toxic]

And now for something completely different useful.

* 14ms frame delay has been removed. As a result, game now locks properly on 30 FPS instead of 25 FPS

WAT.

 

[tuluse]

My guess is they had to either pay to license the music to keep selling the game, or would need to pull it. They probably decided it wasn't worth the money.

I do wonder how those other... issues were introduced however. Is this actually the same PC version, or is this a port of the Android version (new menus etc.)?

That would make sense for *new* sales, but they removed content from previously purchased copies.

 

[Whisky]

And now for something completely different useful.

* 14ms frame delay has been removed. As a result, game now locks properly on 30 FPS instead of 25 FPS

WAT.

THAT'S FIVE EXTRA F'S YOU FUCKING ENTITLED MANBABY! STOP WHINING!

Rockstar is a weird case. They usually at least try to make/publish a good game even when it's bad (GTAIV had good ambitions, just it sucked shit) but when it comes to PC they're at best negligent and at their worst, actively trying to make things miserable for everyone.

I mean, the song thing is a copyright issue, but usually copyrights aren't enforced unless you update/re-release something. So, what's the point? Aside from that there is no excuse for the resolution thing, that is heinous.

And this is why pirating is necessary to exist. When Lucas and Spielberg edited some of their old movies, it did not cause your copy to cease existing. When your PS2 and PC DVDs stop working (And mine works fine right now, but one day they will degrade even if I don't live to see it.) someone will need to distribute the image, the original image, so that people in the future can enjoy the games that get shitty patches like this, just as we did.