

after you have installed SA-MP and SA-MP Addon it is recommended to right click the San Andreas Multiplayer entry in Lutris, then Wine configuration -> Staging and "Enable VAAPI as backend for DXVA2 GPU decoding" for better performance when the second installer for the SA-MP Addon pops up, browse to the directory where you have installed GTA San Andreas and the patch will be installed with no problems (it does not detect properly the game directory) the first SA-MP installer needs to be pointed at the folder where you have GTA San Andreas already installed and it will detect the apropriate game directory and will install as intended NOTE: When you are prompted to choose the instalation directory, choose the folder where you have already installed GTA San AndreasĪlso if you try to play San Andreas and this mod from the same installation it will break the mod, a separate GTA San Adreas installation is advised just for playing the modīEFORE installation go into your GTA San Andreas directory and make sure that the gta_sa.exe permissions are set to "Read and Write" for the Owner

More information about SA-MP Addon 2.3 and on how to downgrade GTA San Andreas to version 1.0.0 can be found on the web.

SA-MP Addon does not detect properly the game installation and you will have to poit it manually to the apropriate directory when the addon is installed if you try to run GTA San Andreas from this installation the mod will break and to fix it you must delete "gta_sa.set" from drive_c/users/"your_user"/My Documents/GTA San Andreas User Files/ if you are using wine staging after you have installed SA-MP and SA-MP Addon it is recommended to right click the San Andreas Multiplayer entry in Lutris, then Wine configuration -> Staging and "Enable VAAPI as backend for DXVA2 GPU decoding" for better performance when the installer for the SA-MP Addon pops up, browse to the directory where you have installed GTA San Andreas and the patch will be installed with no problems (it does not detect properly the game directory)
