Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories PC Edition

This product was abandoned during development. It is covered here for historical reference.^[1]

Warnings

RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).

Key points

Based on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Donaters Pack	Unused pack meant for donators
Halloween Night Pack	Activated while playing on Halloween
Project 2DFX	Port of Project2DFX project for GTA SA

Donaters Pack protected by SilentSecu DRM

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Add `-nointro` line to `commandline.txt`

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\GTA Vice City Stories User Files\*.set

gta_vcs.set contains most settings

controls.set contains controller settings

updater.set contains updater settings

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\GTA Vice City Stories User Files\GTAVCSsf#.b

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)		2x-4x MSAA. Misleading in-game selector.^[2]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		Choice of 25/30/60 FPS cap
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		X-Axis only
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Standard 1 (PS2-style) and Standard 2 (IV-style) presets only
Controller sensitivity		Can be set in `<path-to-game>\GInput.ini`
Controller Y-axis inversion		Can be set in `<path-to-game>\GInput.ini`

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output^[3]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 1, EAX 2, EAX 3, EAX 4^[4]

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Romanian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play		Ad-hoc multiplayer only available in PSP version^[5]
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	384 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce FX series 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 2.0 support	Nvidia GeForce 6200 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9 compatible	Sound Blaster Audigy 2

SSE2-capable CPU required

References

↑ GTAForums - Vice City Stories: PC Edition - Reply posted April 7, 2020 by Ash_735 - last accessed on 2022-02-12
"Hi everyone, after 10 years and many of them being inactive we've came to the tough decision to finally declare this project dead, we've held out in hopes that people would want to join the team and contribute to this and help us overcome our problems and issues we've been having but alas that did not work out. This project has been stalled since September 2019, no one on the team wants to work on this anymore, even Rockstar Games themselves refuse to do anything with Vice City Stories, so with that in mind we feel like this project has gone way beyond being fit for purpose, the last great release was the "Blue Hesper" build back in 2013, so it's been seven years on here since that last major progress build mission wise."
↑ SilentPatch - Page 139 - GTAForums - last accessed on 2016-7-26
↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up
↑ Gaming - SoundBlaster.com (retrieved)
↑ Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[1] GTAForums - Vice City Stories: PC Edition - Reply posted April 7, 2020 by Ash_735 - last accessed on 2022-02-12
"Hi everyone, after 10 years and many of them being inactive we've came to the tough decision to finally declare this project dead, we've held out in hopes that people would want to join the team and contribute to this and help us overcome our problems and issues we've been having but alas that did not work out. This project has been stalled since September 2019, no one on the team wants to work on this anymore, even Rockstar Games themselves refuse to do anything with Vice City Stories, so with that in mind we feel like this project has gone way beyond being fit for purpose, the last great release was the "Blue Hesper" build back in 2013, so it's been seven years on here since that last major progress build mission wise."

[2] SilentPatch - Page 139 - GTAForums - last accessed on 2016-7-26

[3] PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up

[4] Gaming - SoundBlaster.com (retrieved)

[5] Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Developers

	VCSPC Team
Engines
	RenderWare
Release dates
Windows	Early access