GTA San Andreas Sends CJ To Deep Space With Windows 11 Update

You ever spawn a plane and accidentally yeet your main character to the next galaxy in another universe? No? Well, GTA San Andreas just did—thanks to a little Windows 11 update that exposed a two-decade-old bug buried deep in Rockstar’s legacy code (gotta love it!).

We’re not kidding. CJ launched harder than a NASA test rocket, and modders are only now figuring out why.

Blame the Skimmer… Kinda

The chaos started when a modder named Silent tried to spawn the Skimmer—a humble seaplane in GTA San Andreas. Instead of a smooth takeoff, CJ got hard-launched into the stratosphere… and beyond. We’re talking coordinates so broken, the game thought space itself was a reasonable destination.

“I then used the script to spawn a Skimmer and put CJ inside it,” writes Silent, “just to be launched 1.0287648030984853e+0031 = 10.3 nonillion meters, or 10.3 octillion kilometers, or 1.087 quadrillion light-years up in the sky.”

Turns out, the Skimmer was originally coded as, get this, a boat in Vice City (though some OGs will probably recognize it). When it made its way to GTA San Andreas, Rockstar reclassified it as a plane—but forgot to add critical parameters that tell the game how gravity works. Whoops.

Windows 11: Now Featuring Chaos Physics

So why did this glitch suddenly show up in 2025? Enter Windows 11 version 24H2 (sounds like a new molecule), which somehow exposed the missing data in the game’s old-school files. Basically, Windows asked for gravity math, and GTA San Andreas replied with “lol what’s that?”

The result? CJ blasts off into infinite Z-axis madness like he’s trying to skip the cutscene to the afterlife.

Modder Fixes What Rockstar Forgot

Thankfully, Silent dove into the code, found the issue, and patched it with some good old-fashioned logic. The missing parameters were already fixed in the original Xbox version (and later editions), but the PC version? Just left out in the cold like an orphan is a Victorian storyline.

All it took was two decades and a modern OS to wake the bug up.

Final Thoughts: Legacy Code Is Wild

This whole situation is peak GTA—old bugs, weird physics, and one legendary launch into the cosmic abyss. But it’s also a reminder of how fragile legacy games can be when they’re not updated for modern systems. One update, and suddenly your game turns into Kerbal Space Program by accident.

Moral of the story? Don’t skip your Z-coordinate homework.