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Hello.

3D Universe era GTA games were not designed to run at high FPS. Playing at a higher FPS than originally intended (25/30fps) causes significant differences in gameplay physics, such as vehicles deaccelerating very quickly after releasing the throttle key, and some single-player missions becoming impossible. This is a known fact (see "60 FPS" entry in table).

This is because GTA SA is an old game, built using legacy tech (DirectX9 / DirectSound), for a time where monitors were square, low resolution, and with refresh rates below 90Hz.

Today, we have widescreen monitors with very high resolution and very high refresh rates, with very powerful GPUs, using modern Windows that does its best to be backwards compatible with legacy apps like GTA SA.

But actually trying to play GTA SA / SAMP in 2026 on Windows 11 without any Quality of Life mods is quite painful - Alt+Tab doesn't work / crashes, the game HUD is stretched, and it likes to crash randomly - which is frustrating when playing on a mission-based server like CT where a game crash results in a loss and interruption to your flow.

This means that players like Zaca and myself who want to play GTA SA in 2026 without getting too annoyed will seek out Quality of Life mods to fix these issues when playing on modern systems.

This includes:
- SilentPatch - fixes some PC-specific bugs in the GTA engine, including some frame-timing issues
- Framerate Vigilante - fixes some issues when running at high FPS
- RefreshRateFix - sets frame limiter to display's refresh rate
- Others QoL mods exist, but they're irrelevant, including WidescreenFix (fixes stretched HUD) and GInput (allows modern XInput/Xbox-compatible game controllers to work, as they don't support legacy DirectInput)

SAMP includes its own frame limiter, capped at 90FPS and configured using /fpslimit. In Zaca's video, they have a mod "UncapFPS_UGBASEEU.asi" which I suspect removes this frame limiter. I couldn't find that exact mod, so I've installed an equivalent, PreciseFramerateLimiter, and configured it to unlimited (0) FPS.

GTA SA has a longstanding glitch, the "bunny hop glitch", where you can bunny hop higher than normal by pressing the Fire (LeftMouse) key just after releasing the bunny-hop key (LCtrl). It is timing-sensitive, so it can be difficult to achieve at low FPS.

What Zaca has done in their video, which wasn't mentioned explicitly, is they've bound the key for bunny hopping to MouseScrollDown. This is an easy way of spamming the key, but I think it could also work using macros.

When you combine these things together:
- Removal of the SAMP frame limiter = very high FPS
- Use of scroll wheel to bunny hop = rapid spamming of the key = much easier to perform the bunny hop glitch / makes it much more likely to occur
- Mods that decouple the game engine's physics from the screen refresh rate (instead of hardcoding/assuming for 25-30FPS) = unexpected changes to physics (which is why the bike wobbles when stationary)

Then, you get this reproduction video (demonstrated at >500 fps where you jump extremely high, and 90 fps which isn't as extreme but is still higher than normal):

I hope this provides context for how a player could find themselves abusing this glitch without explicitly intending to cheat.

Whether or not Zaca actually gained an advantage over other players isn't for me to decide, but I doubt you could make much $$$ with this glitch given that it's limited to bicycles. Unlike speedhackers that were given a second chance...

Hey PeeJay,

The code I used for SAFA paychecks has long since disappeared. I've looked through my PC, can't find any files.

However the topic you've linked is correct, you'll need to collect player data every N days, compare it against the last set of data, and work out how much to pay them based on your rules e.g. $1k per 1 fuel stat.

To automate this, there's a Players API @ http://convoytrucking.net/api/players/{player id}, e.g. my stats are at http://convoytrucking.net/api/players/10039/

As for sending the actual money to players, from my experience I did it manually, but someone in the linked topic mentioned creating a AutoHotKey script to automate typing "/give [player name] [amount] [comment]" in the chatbox.

I know I'm breaking the rule on bumping dead posts.

I personally would like to see Convoy Trucking on a modern platform. I saw "Transport Tycoon" in the FiveM server browser and went "ah someone's already done it" but maybe not.

The reason why I'm mentioning this is because I've been thinking of the idea of creating Convoy Trucking V as a side project and have been building up a few pieces to make my life easier when working with FiveM (nothing Convoy Trucking related yet!). It's also a chance for me to make Convoy Trucking my way.

This is not to say I'm actively working on it (my time is limited) and it's not to say you should expect this server to even be a thing - but it would good to know if anyone a) would be interested to play on this server if it was built, and b) has a decent understanding of C#/PostgreSQL & if they would be willing to help develop it.

I just re-uploaded one of the missing links. Available at @ https://xdjoshuaaz.github.io/gta-color-html/index.html or usable below.

Hi all,

An incident occurred a few days ago (Sunday 25 November 2018, ~5am UTC/GMT) causing the server's database to become unreadable, therefore both gameserver and website went offline.

To get the server running again, the database was rebuilt using the database's recovery mode. This means there is a possible chance that some data may have been lost as the recovery mode ignores any invalid database records when reading the database, allowing a recovery of the remaining valid data to be made.

If you have noticed any missing statistics, vehicles, money, transfers, messages etc, please post in Problems & Complaints.

Thanks,
Joshy

I'm not sure what is being suggested here, although something needs to be done about cheat detection since if the host moves to a better protected server then cheats will be the #1 problem. My ideas include improving Smokey, including a third-party anti-cheat script, or allowing respected players to votekick/ban new players (see below).

Assuming new players are "trojans" is not the right answer though.

As for votekick/ban, my opinion has changed on this since I was a scripter especially with staff activity being not great. Abuse can be dealt with by auditing vote logs and kick/bans regularly, with abusers being banned from server or from voting. It must only be used for cheaters.

you can't ask for answers to your police test. Figure it out yourself.

He is asking if you must ask player to pull over first before ramming.

I've never seen a problem because of this personally, either way the suspect gets arrested and the cop actually loses out if they don't ask them to pull over as the suspect's wanted level will not go up, which means you get less money for it.

It seems to work fine for me on Windows 10 build 1703 "Creators Update"? Although ALT+TABing has never been good on Windows 10 and maybe Windows 8.1 for that matter.

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OpenIV did reverse engineering (it's forbidden) people shouldn't be asking for the OpenIV "unban", they should be asking to Rockstar to upgrade their anti cheat system on GTA Online, hackers ruined this game, every session has one, and everyone loves then when they drop some money to you, so next time someone drops money to you, report him, they ruined this game, and it's their fault to what's going on now...

From a reddit comment I made a few days ago:

You can however blame this [DDoSing] on Rockstar skimping on resources for online networking, and not using dedicated servers for online (dedi servers are a lot more expensive compared to a few matchmaking servers,) which is hilarious since GTA V is one of the highest profiting games of all time yet other games like Battlefield and CS:GO have dedicated servers.

Dedicated servers would also really help in solving cheating and online mods, since currently the "truthful" game state is dictated by the lobby host (the modder,) which in networked software development totally contradicts the rule "never trust the client." If the truthful game state was set by a dedicated server run by R*, then it would be much easier to implement anti-cheat validation measures.

If Rockstar had just used dedicated servers in the first place, online modding wouldn't be a such a big problem to deal with and their economy would be much harder to get modded money into = possibly selling more shark cards (if players weren't pushed away from the grind that is GTA Online).

https://zerolives.com/article/vIpXOHnx/grand-theft-auto-v-steam-listing-flooded-with-negative-reviews-following-modding-tool-cease-and-desist

R* are still arseholes sadly, I don't see GTA V MP mods lasting long when they become popular.

^{I'm known as the JS guy in work...}

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Spekter

Rule broken: insulting / disrespect / threats
Date and time: 23 May 17:35 BST

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• Respect other users. Disrespectful behavior will not be accepted.
• Use common sense.
• Do not post links to adult material, screamers, or to images / sites that could be considered "not safe for work" material.

I'm not exactly sure why you would want to post this other than having a disrespectful laugh, I find it only offensive personally and I am surprised at the fact it's been in the shoutbox for 15 hours.

Please remove the link out of this report after you're done (even if nothing happens) - I don't want Google indexing the forum and finding shit like that on here.

and what I was saying is, no matter which client is chosen, get a head start on it now so you already have the basics down...

If you what you mean by "basics" is design (i.e. a features list or a suggestions board) then okay, but otherwise that implies starting to code on top of a platform which may or may not be relevant in the future which is a risky thing to do. Also known as, living on the bleeding edge.