How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

Introduction On the SilentPatch GitHub issue tracker, I received a rather specific bug report: Skimmer airplane doesn’t exist in Windows 11 24H2 When I upgraded my windows to version 24H2, the Skimmer plane disappear completely from the game. It can’t be spawn using trainer nor it can’t be found anywhere on it’s normal spawn points. I’m using both my modded copy (which is before the update, is completely fine) and vanilla copy with only silentpatch (I tried the 2018, 2020 and the most recent version of silentpatch) and the plane still won’t exist. If this was the first time I had heard about it, I’d likely consider it dubious and suspect there are more things at play, and it’s not specifically Windows 11 24H2. However, on GTAForums, I’ve been receiving comments about this exact issue since November last year. Some of them said SilentPatch causes this issue, others however stated the same happens on a completely unmodded game: Apparently the skimmer cant spawn when playing on Window ... Read full article.