GTA Trilogy might finally be worth playing after massive performance update
Rockstar Games has released a huge update for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition, introducing numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, graphical tweaks, stability updates, and more.
Now live, the patch rolls out improvements across all three games in the trilogy — GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas — and includes over 100 fixes in total. The update is intended to resolve or improve the many performance, technical, and graphical bugs that littered the game at launch.
The long list of patch notes on Rockstar’s support site show GTA 3 has received fixes for some of its faulty textures, improved collision detection for several objects and areas of the map, changes to progression issues, and tweaks to miscellaneous bugs — such as traffic light no longer permanently displaying green.
The improvements for Vice City also focus on faulty textures and collisions, as well as several bugs and audio glitches. A lot of fixes have been made, with the patch for Vice City alone taking up over 8GB of storage.
San Andreas, meanwhile, has received patches to several faulty camera viewpoints, mission bugs, cinematic glitches, and a massive host of assorted problems that crop up in its minute-to-minute gameplay. The patch notes even list an improvement to the high fade haircut (which presumably is the hairstyle that protagonist CJ is rocking), which should please fans who were disappointed with his new look in the remaster.
The GTA Trilogy wasn’t received warmly by fans when it released last November. Many players and critics took issue with the litany of performance and graphical bugs that all but ruined their experience of the game, while others were disappointed in its radical change of art style, as well as the major
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