Ultimate-ASI-Loader VS dxwrapper

you also need https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/x64-latest/bink2w64-x64.zip place dll into content folder AFTER renaming original bink2w64.dll to bink2w64Hooked.dll

Updated the ASI Loader from github but the game refused to load. Turns out my achievement enabler plugin was causing the issue, once disabled everything is working as normal. I was using this one.

Try Ultimate ASI Loader

So I got GTA 3 to run on WINE successfuly. Next stop is getting ASI patches to load, but I've hit a bit of a wall here. Naming the Ultimate ASI loader to dinput8.dll and setting WINE to use that DLL gets me the following message "Unable to load SilentPatchIII.asi: Error 998". Closest thing to the topic I've found is this thread: https://github.com/thirteenag/ultimate-asi-loader/issues/12, but doesn't look like that got anywhere either. Since it's from 2020, i figured to ask - has anyone got this to work since?

You are welcome. In general if you recieve message to use launchgtaiv.exe it means that XLivelessAddon is not loading for some reason. Reinstall it and maybe update Ultimate ASI Loader - Ultimate-ASI-Loader.zip unpack and rename as xlive.dll https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/tag/v4.68

With that said, if they are not the same, check if you are able to rename one of them into something else. The Ultimate ASI Loader, for example, allows you to rename it into any of the ones listed in the link.

You need at least something called Ultimate ASI Loader Get the x86 version here: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/v4.68/Ultimate-ASI-Loader.zip

Then, download this and place the files inside the game directory (C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity Classic).

There's also dxwrapper that implements old DirectDraw/3D interfaces with newer D3D9 api for better compatibility with newer Windows versions:

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper

FYI: The Space Bar re-release features Elisha Riedlinger's DxWrapper (https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper), whose config file is otherwise stock with just FullScreen enabled. I strongly believe they didn't properly test it.

RTX Remix uses a custom d3d9.dll though so you additionally need another wrapper such as https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper to customize which dll should be loaded since by default d3d8to9 uses the default system file which will result in translated calls not being redirected to the path tracer used by Remix.

If you have a GPU that supports DXVK (Basically it forces DXVK to run the game in Vulkan intsead of it's usual DirectX 9, which the DX9 version hates GTA IV and while GTA IV hates DX9 back) and has more than 2GB of VRAM (DirectX Vulkan), then I HIGHLY recommend it: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases (Use this guide to install it: http://ant-sh.blogspot.com/2020/07/gta-4-stutter-choppiness-fix.html. If you want aliasing AND DXVK, use this guide: http://ant-sh.blogspot.com/2021/01/antialiasing-with-dxvk-and-gta-iv.html. If your GPU doesn't support Vulkan, use DxWrapper: https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases).