Be sure you have no mods causing these crashes, too! Anything like a foreign character or misplaced indentation within the handling.cfg could cause the game to crash. Read over my instructions and repeat the steps over and over again, paying close attention to the screenshots provided. If the game continues to crash, make a copy of the 'Copy of handling.cfg' file and try make the replacements within this file, rename it to handling.cfg and then try it in-game.

If the game crashes with these new handling.cfg lines double-check you replaced them correctly. At this point I advise you test these handling lines out in-game before we proceed to modifying the gta_sa.exe Once you have completed these replacements, save the handling.cfg file using File > Save and then close the window ensuring your changes have been made. Highlight this entire line of code and replace it with the following, using Copy and Paste: Now hold CTRL and F on your keyboard once again and hit Find Next until you find the line which begins with ' $ HYDRA'.

Now replace it with the line below, using Copy and Paste:

Gta san andreas hydra