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Due to security and operational reasons, we must announce that the upcoming Multi Theft Auto 1.7 release will not support Windows 7/8/8.1. We recommend that users still running these versions of Windows upgrade to Windows 10 or later, or switch to a Linux based operating system (using Lutris, Wine, etc...).

We have stats. Less than 1% of our player base uses a version older than Windows 10. We can't keep supporting it, and we won't for a small amount of stubborn people. If your PC can run Windows 7, it can also run Windows 10. Alternatively, Linux which we aim to support better in 1.7. You are running an operating system that is insecure, open to viruses, and disallows us from making important changes to improve MTA. Tens of people, maybe hundreds on a really busy day. Others included in your "millions" don't play MTA, and many of those numbers are taken up by embedded systems with no opinions. MTA 1.6 had issues. We acknowledged this multiple times. With MTA 1.7 we have worked hard to resolve many of those issue, a commitment that continues. Many of those issues came from having to adapt to more heavy servers (using more heavy assets) and having to further protections against cheaters. MTA is old, with a very old codebase, on top of an old game. It adds unique challenges. We continue to have a large player base that will happily move over to 1.7 once released. Don't make claims without having the stats to back it up. Don't make claims without a proper understanding of software development, and the efforts that go into a project like this. Windows 7 support by Microsoft ended over 6 years ago. Similarly we had supported Windows XP for many years after Microsoft did. We don't have a history of ending our support that quickly, and we only do if we have no other choice. Windows 10 will see support for the foreseeable future. That said, if you have issues with the game, or the default resources. Report them on our GitHub. You can also contribute to those fixes yourself (as we are open source). Already acknowledged and being fixed for MTA 1.7. Can't compare us with first-party games. We are a mod for a very old, poorly optimized game. The challenges for these are very different as we don't have access to the game's source code. Servers change their scripts, operating systems change, and cheaters change their methods. So yes, we have to make updates, and sometimes it doesn't work out as we meant to. We have already acknowledged the issues with 1.6 and that we are using 1.7 to fix them. We aim to prevent this from happening again. We have communicated heavily about all of this on our Discord server over these last few months. If you're not already in there, I highly suggest joining: https://discord.com/invite/mtasa

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Hello, i was terribly trolled by one or more admins that for some reason have access to change my nickname and say stuff as me even if i didn't. I want the full help with that because now i can't even play normally with this kind of people. Here is link to my full console.log https://drive.google.com/file/d/16YHTiFVjvltmX9GY3e4yvdCYCulSQHJC/view?usp=sharing and you need to look from [2026-08-16 00:44:05] [Output] because that's the time i connected to SAES:RPG | @saesrpg.uk. That's the place i started playing after a long time, and this is the place that i got trolled too much by admins which have access to change my nickname and i can't see who was it and they also have a command which allows them to type :~ as me. also if someone is reading this, DON'T GET THERE!

I had opened a server in April--it was happening. So it's been happening for 4+ months. I think they might fix or at least address this in MTA 1.7 which is coming soon... maybe, maybe not. We can only hope bro.

It has been 4 years since we launched our server, and this is the first time I have ever encountered something like this. A few months ago, there was also a similar issue (HB Time-Out) affecting all servers, but this one seems to be happening only on my server.

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Stricter validation. Fix your assets: https://nightly.mtasa.com/rwtool/

Hi there, What does the error message say exactly, can you post a screenshot or the error message?

Done.

Thank you. Is it possible to fix the information on the wiki? Other users (like me) might not be aware of this.

It's docs is not something we host and maintain as far as I know. Here you have a web archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260220180628/http://static.cegui.org.uk/static/WindowsLookProperties.html

Solved it on my machine, posting the fix in case it's the same for you. Setup: Windows 11 25H2 (build 26200.8655), Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 4060 Ti. Symptom was identical: MTA launcher opens, spins one CPU core for ~10-15s, then vanishes with no window and no error (exit code 0xC0000409, no crash dump). Fix that worked: uninstall Virtual Desktop (the VR "Virtual Desktop Streamer"). After removing it, the current MTA build launches to the main menu and connects to servers normally. Notes if you want to try it: - It's specifically a full uninstall. Just disabling Virtual Desktop's display adapter in Device Manager did NOT help, you have to uninstall it so its service and driver are gone. - Don't have Virtual Desktop? Then this exact cause isn't yours, but the pattern is the same: it's a regression on recent Windows (24H2/25H2) where some virtual-display/streaming driver trips the current client. The older official build r23409 launches regardless, if you can find that installer, it's a stopgap (but only joins servers whose minclientversion is at or below it). - If you use Virtual Desktop for VR, the catch is you currently have to choose: Virtual Desktop installed for VR, or MTA working. Reinstalling VD re-breaks MTA until this is fixed upstream. Tracked on GitHub here, please add your Windows build number and whether you have Virtual Desktop installed, more datapoints help the devs pin it: https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/issues/4953

MTA won’t even launch for me on Windows 11, and I’m not the only one having issues. Other players are also reporting stability problems, so something definitely feels wrong with MTA nowadays. It’s honestly sad to see the game in this state. https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/issues/4952

Right now, even the most poorly optimized games run better than MTA. Seriously, the fact that games like Cyberpunk or even MindsEye perform better than MTA means something is seriously wrong. Please, don't punish people for speaking the truth, and stop spouting lines like "we're a small group doing this for free" - that doesn't calm anyone down and it just makes you guys look bad in people eyes. Claiming you're doing it for free doesn't mean anything when the game worked fine in older versions and the new ones have terrible optimization. From what I've observed, the last truly good version was build 23324. Newer ones have performed progressively worse, and that’s impossible to ignore.

It appears that this resource now crashes the MTA client since version 1.6 (latest stable version on 13-4-2026) when using the Shift + G shortcut or /guied command. Can others confirm whether this also happens on their machine? Technical details: OS: Windows 11 Processor: i5-8600K Memory: 32GB GPU: Asus GTX 1080 8GB