How to launch downgraded GTA SA from steam

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas201 views4 favorites1 min readby Borshch_5001Updated 29 Nov, 2025View on Steam ↗

Tutorial

To make the steam run gta_sa.exe instead of gta-sa.exe you can make a symbolic link.

Delete/move gta-sa.exe.
Then open the console (Win+R, then write “cmd”) and write "mklink game_path\gta-sa.exe game_path\gta_sa.exe" in the console. Write the full path, for example
mklink D:\Games\GTASA\gta-sa.exe D:\Games\GTASA\gta_sa.exe
Done, run the game through steam. You can do the same with samp and other .exe files like UGMP or Stars and Stripes.

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