Game developer Adrian works on game bugs during his free time, and he has continuously been releasing fixes for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA: San Andreas) and many other games for modern computers. One such bug that caught our attention is the missing Skimmer seaplane on GTA: San Andreas after updating to Windows 11 24H2, which GitHub user hiddenmask58 brought up four days ago. According to the user, the modded and vanilla with SilentPatch versions of his game have this problem. Thankfully, Adrian got wind of the issue, fixed it within 24 hours, and shared the findings on Silent's Blog.
According to the investigation, the root cause of the issue is missing information in the vehicles.ide configuration file. The line for the Skimmer is missing its last four parameters, which include the front and rear wheel scale. It seems that this problem has existed in GTA: San Andreas since its launch, but how Windows loaded the information in previous years meant that it went undetected for nearly 20 years.
