The only downsides? You won’t get cloud saves, and you’ll have to manually update mods. But for a nostalgic trip back to Grove Street, few experiences beat decompressing a clean ZIP file, double-clicking gta_sa.exe , and hearing the iconic theme song on your old Windows 7 machine.
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