when i just bought my comp the higher the quality was the faster the game was... weird right?
now i play on low quality and i have some framerate problems...
the shadows changed for me, i didn't see anything else change
save games located in my documents/gtasa user files
if you replace the main.scm you don't lose you save but in some mods you can't play you saved game
i don't know why trainers don't work for you but i recommend MegaTrainer XL (it's a trainer not only for SA)
i have V1, i don't need even to downgrade
i had lots of mods until i have been kicked from multiplayer games and found out that it is because the mods...
then i deleted them all and that stupid mod because of it i had to reinstall the game
Don't reinstall. Just backup your gta3.img before you start any modding.
i installed the mod with sami and when i tried to remove the mod i couldn't play the game (sa crashed when i tired to play) and i lost the CD with the backup (i always burn backups on CDs ) so the only thing i could do is reinstall