Once downgraded, you should install these "mandatory" mods to make the game playable on modern hardware:
Modern digital versions of the game are often considered inferior due to several "updates" that actually degraded the experience: gta sa downgrade to 1.0
The uninstaller does its work with clinical efficiency. My custom radio station, a graveyard of poorly ripped Sum 41 and Linkin Park songs, vanishes byte by byte. The icon on my desktop flickers and dies. Once downgraded, you should install these "mandatory" mods
If you play the Steam v3.0 version today, you are playing a compromised, broken shadow of a masterpiece. Spending 15 minutes to downgrade to v1.0 gives you a game that runs better on an RTX 4090 than the official version does, looks more atmospheric, and opens the door to thousands of mods that keep the game alive two decades later. If you play the Steam v3
Newer versions are notoriously difficult to mod, sometimes crashing purposefully or resetting files to prevent user changes. The Quest: Reclaiming Version 1.0