Essentials - Collection of Necessary Mods

This mod pack serves as a base to enhance and fix your GTA San Andreas experience, combining various essential mods in one package. It includes several quality-of-life improvements, fixes, and returns features to make your game more enjoyable and polished. It has all the files required to install most other mods, CLEO, AML, etc. Make sure to download and install this mod first, as it should be used as a base before installing other mods, as it may overwrite previously installed files.

Requirements:

Included Mods:

Installation:

ADRENO=DXT

MALI=ETC

PowerVR=PVR

(IMPORTANT) Install before any other mods to avoid potential conflicts or overwriting of files.

As always, configure the game to your liking!

By using this mod pack, you’ll enjoy a version of GTA San Andreas 10th AE with lightly improved graphics, fixed gameplay, and features from the PC version, along with a few tweaks which can be adjusted through the .ini files for Cheesepatch & JPatch. Have fun with the DEFINITIVE way to have a fixed vanilla experience in GTA SA 10th AE!

For SA_DOX 2.0 support delete all SkyGFX, Planter and ClassicFX files from the mods and config folders. Also remove the grass folder from com.rockstargames.gtasa/files/models/

If using SA_DOX 2.0, I'd recommend going into JPatch config and change "FixFogWall=0" to "FixFogWall=1" I have it turned off in this archive by default to save performance and removed the FogWall using SkyGFX by having "ExponentialFog=1" and "PS2_Pipeline_RenderWay=0" set in the SkyGFX config. (A much more performance friendly option!!!) Which is incompatible with SA_DOX 2.0.

Main.scm mods should work but if they don't just disable all scm fixes in the JPatch and Cheesepatch configs.

(EXPERIMENTAL — MAY CAUSE CRASHES AND BUGS — NOT RECOMMENDED) I did not use any texture upscale mods or "pixelated texture fix" mods to fix pixelated textures as to keep the game optimized, but if they bother you, you need to NOT DELETE the dxt archives in the texdb folder in the mod and go into the JPatch config and find "ForceLoadDxt=0" and change it to "ForceLoadDxt=1" that will fix the pixelated textures without wasting storage space on your phone and having to import textures :).

RECOMMENDED MODS:

Animated Textures from PS2 for Mobile — https://libertycity.net/files/gta-san-andreas-ios-android/192249-animated-textures-from-ps2-for-mobile.html

CHANGELOG:

[03/12/25] MINOR UPDATE!!!

A few more small map fixes and tweaks

[03/19/24] MINOR UPDATE!!!

Fixed Water across from LSPD HQ

Added Improved Vanilla Timecyc

Fogwall and high brightness when changing colorfilter fixed

Config tweaks

PERFORMANCE IMPROVED via fixing FogWall through SkyGFX rather than JPatch. Old versions performance was bad on lower end devices due to the JPatch FogWall fix method and double culling on several models due to using some PC models to fix bugs from War Drum Studios poor culling optimization methods. SLOWLY optimizing one step at a time ;)

[3/21/25] Updated ReadMe.txt

As described, since people aren't always gonna read the description I updated the ReadMe to include compatibility information about SA_DOX 2.0. It is compatible but you need to follow the steps in the Readme or above in the description!!!!!

[3/22/25] MINOR UPDATE!!!

Fixed LSPD Officer texture.