
NOTE: after downgrading you will have TWO. 3.0 will revert your game to how it was before the NewSteam patches (this means the game will be less moddable and not all of Silent Patch's features will work) while 1.0 allows for the user to auto-install essential mods from within the downgrader program itself and will downgrade your game completely (there's even a button that will allow for you to install these mods without downgrading).

Not all of Silent Patch's functions will work unless you downgrade to either version 3.0 or 1.0. No (5:4 is not supported but Silent Patch and widescreen mods will correct this) Rather than tell you what version is the best, I’ll simply list the pros and cons of each version with the following table: On December 9 2014, the Steam release was updated with yet another official patch (NewSteam r2). On November 7 2014, the Steam release was exclusively updated with another official patch (labelled by modders as NewSteam r1). This was due to the "Hot Coffee mod" which controversially restored partially-cut content that wasn't supposed to be available to players. San Andreas had previously only received one official patch (patch 1.01) and it limited modding severely.
Once all that's done you can optionally apply the Fixed Vehicles pack from link 3, which is nice to have and works great alongside Silent Patch. Lastly, unzip Silent's ASI Loader this time and then drag and drop the "vorbisHooked.dll" and "vorbisFile.dll" files into your game's main folder. After that, unzip Silent Patch and then drag and drop the "SilentPatchSA.asi" and "SilentPatchSA.ini" files into your game's main folder. To install it: simply go to link 1, expand the box below the "Silent Patch" heading and click the "Download" button, and then expand the box below the "Silent’s ASI Loader " heading and click the "Download" button there as well. It works best with any PC version except for the "NewSteam" version.

In my opinion: it's now a necessity for any player and ultimately gives you the best San Andreas experience possible. Silent Patch is an unofficial patch that fixes all the remaining issues with this game whilst bringing back features that were only found in the console releases as well. For the respective GTA III and GTA VC discussions, please use the following 2 links:
