DisclaimerThis can make you wish you were blind.
— What?I've resized all the textures
(except HUD/Radar) in gta3.img to 8x8 / 16x8.
— Why?A lot of people fail to run the game on a distinguishable resolution. So for a change, I'm here to help instead of mocking them. This mod trades visual appearance for performance. The boost in FPS will be considerable, might even help you push a stable 60.
— Should I install this?I'll wish it never comes to the point where you have to consider installing this mod. Only install this if this is the last resort, if you don't want to play the game on a very low resolution. Uninstall HUD, particles and any other visual mods first before coming to this.
I'll warn you beforehand, there will be sudden artifacts in the game due to this, some roads textures might go blank on you. Alpha separated objects such as wires and fences will appear completely white, these can be fixed if you have enough free time on your hands to pick those textures - I don't. The game will be more than playable though, as if it just had a baby with the sun.
— ShowcaseImgur Album— Installation Steps1. Extract 8w.img and 8w.dir into
models folder.
2. Go to the
data folder of the game.
- Right click on gta-vc.dat.
- Open with.
- Select Notepad or any text editor.
3. Add the line
CDIMAGE MODELS\8W.IMG right after the Object types line.
![](https://i.imgur.com/cRRyCxO.png)
4. To disable, just add a # before the CDIMAGE line. To enable again, remove the #.
![](https://i.imgur.com/a3oeaCZ.png)
5. Save the file.
If the above 3 steps are too complicated for you, just replace data/gta-vc.dat with the one in archive.
The 'extras' folder contains files from Hanney's Ultimate Potato Graphics that you can directly replace for further visual degradation.
Make sure you back up files before replacing them.
— Downloadhttps://spiller.vcmp.net/8w.zip— Changelog- Defaulted to a simpler .IMG version instead of complicated GMI procedure.
- Added files from Hanney's
Ultimate Potato Graphics mod.
If someone wants, here's a link to
older version. Use
GMI, steps in this
GIF.
I don't visit this forum often, you can message me on discord
(Spiller#5285) if you need help with the mod.