You could know Silent from patches just like the one which restores product placement and makes analog controls work correctly in Crazy Taxi, or the one which restores Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s piss filter. Perhaps much more important is the SilentPatch for the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, which simply bought a major replace and went open-source to rejoice the twentieth anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The GTA SilentPatch fixes quite a few points within the PC ports of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, a lot of which weren’t current within the console originals. It’s not a patch for the Definitive Edition rerelease, nonetheless, which is an entire completely different kettle of fish with its personal well-documented issues.
Among the fixes the SilentPatch now provides for all three video games are repair for the problem the place automobiles may blow up twice when you bailed out in the course of the explosion, a restoration of the PS2 model’s random likelihood that some drivers would not activate their lights within the rain or fog, metallic car extras now showing correctly shiny slightly than weirdly matte, the credit scrolling on the appropriate velocity (they used to go slower at excessive resolutions), and the mission completion textual content likewise leaving the display on the appropriate velocity (once more, it was linked to decision).
There are additionally a major variety of modifications particular to particular person video games. For occasion, the SilentPatch now offers GTA 3 correct boat-sitting and driving animations slightly than having Claude merely sink by means of the seat, pedestrians dive away out of your car as a substitute of towards it, and severed limbs use the right mannequin slightly than being weirdly doubled up so that you’d see two arms on every severed arm. Oh, and NPC drivers can flip proper on one-way roads now, one thing they could not do earlier than.
Meanwhile, a variety of the Vice City modifications need to do with damaged backface culling. If you are not aware of it, culling is the best way videogames save reminiscence by not rendering issues you’ll be able to’t see—just like the backs of objects. Vice City had every kind of issues with its backface culling, leading to automobile home windows and elements of Tommy’s collar disappearing, amongst different issues. That’s all been mounted, as has assault rifle muzzle flashes being aimed the fallacious method, and a separate patch for pedestrians and Tommy not speaking as a lot as they had been purported to on the road has been included into the SilentPatch.
Finally, in sunny San Andreas, CJ’s garments now transfer when he is driving the quadbike simply as they do on common bikes, and you may hover with the jetpack even when you’re utilizing keyboard controls (it defaults to Q+E, and makes the jetpack segments method much less annoying). Those bizarre falling black dots have additionally been mounted—whereas conspiracy theorists have lengthy theorized they had been purported to be alien craft, Silent seemed into the code and realized they had been supposed to make use of the textures from clouds, however had been taking the fallacious a part of it. They now look white as they had been initially meant to and clearly seem as capturing stars. Mystery solved.
You can obtain separate variations of the SilentPatch for every of the three Grand Theft Auto video games it helps, then comply with the setup directions. They’ll differ primarily based on which storefront you acquire the video games by means of, or whether or not you may have an previous retail model on disc, so make sure that to comply with them carefully.
