Windows Update Unmasks 20-Year-Old GTA: San Andreas Bug
April 24, 2025, 10:20 am
A routine Windows 11 update has unexpectedly pulled back the curtain on a legacy bug in GTA: San Andreas—a 20-year-old coding oversight that has resurfaced. The incident, described with tongue-in-cheek humor by tech insiders, underscores the quirky collision between vintage game code and modern operating systems.
Something broke on Windows 11 24H2, but dev who discovered it tells El Reg this time Microsoft's not to blame Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 update is frustrating some users, but it isn't the operating system at fault this time. Instead, it's down to a 20-year-old error in Grand Theft Auto: San...
Windows 11 24H2 revealed a 20-year-old bug in GTA: San Andreas. Thankfully, fixing it is as simple as adding four values in a game config file in Notepad.
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