The ex-GTA lead whose blog got the kibosh from Rockstar chats San Andreas' worst bug and why 'anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it'

The original GTA trilogy on PC—not the biffed-up Definitive Edition of 2021—is still the best way to play those games. Not least because of fan projects like SilentPatch, a mod that fixes a whole bunch of bugs and errors still left over in Rockstar's PS2-era opuses (opi?), and that got a meaty ol' update just over a week ago.

In fact, it's such a good patch that it's earned the endorsement of Obbe Vermeij (via GamesRadar), former Rockstar technical director who worked in that role on GTA 3...