‼️DEPRECATED‼️

➡️ Use COMP.Injector instead

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• Loading cargrp.dat
• Loading FLA Audio.dat
• Loading Object.dat

🚘 What is FastLoader?

FastLoader is a tiny .asi plugin that enhances GTA San Andreas modding by fixing what ModLoader doesn't:

• Merges difficult files like cargrp.dat, object.dat, and gtasa_vehicleAudioSettings.cfg
• Prevents crashes and manual merging
• Ensures proper load order and compatibility with Fastman92 Limit Adjuster (FLA)
• Ignore folders with '.' as a prefix, preserving modloader functionality

🧐 Key Features

• 🧩 Fixes ModLoader limitations (cargrp.dat, object.dat)
• 🔊 Automates audio merging for Fastman92 Limit Adjuster via gtasa_vehicleAudioSettings.cfg
• ❌ No need to touch original data/ configuration files – all handled automatically
• 🚀 Optimized for speed – minimal startup overhead
• 🛠️ Compatible with ModLoader & FLA

🛠️ It suits best

• Silent’s ASI Loader (2025 update by fastman92) – allows proper load order of .asi plugins → Download & info

📊 Installation

1. Download and install the newest Silent’s ASI Loader
2. Place $fastloader.asi in your main GTA SA directory (where gta_sa.exe is)
3. Drop regular text files with *.fastloader extension into ModLoader (just like you normally do for ModLoader .txt files) Check the Wiki
4. Launch the game – done!

⚙️ How It Works

FastLoader is guaranteed to run before other plugins, including:

• ✅ ModLoader
• ✅ Fastman92 Limit Adjuster 

This ensures safe memory access and proper data injection, without race conditions or file conflicts. This behavior is made possible by the latest version of Silent’s ASI Loader, which guarantees load order of .asi plugins.

🧹Plugin must be named $fastloader.asi, and make sure it's placed in the main GTA SA directory to ensure it loads early.

📚 File format details are available in the project Wiki

🗺️ Fastaman Limit Adjuster - Best Settings

For cargrp.dat loading:

Cargrp cars per group = 63

Streaming_DesiredNumberOfVehiclesLoaded = 62

For object.dat loading:

Object info entries = 200

For #VehicleStructs use Open Limit Adjuster default settings.

🗺️ MixSets - Best Settings

Comment out those lines with # to avoid conflicts and to grant a flawless stability.

#MinDesiredLoadedVeh  = 4        # (2) Minimum vehicle model variations loaded in memory.
#NumDesiredLoadedVeh  = 36       # (22) How many desired vehicle model variations loaded into memory.
#DelayLoadDesiredVeh  = 250      # (350) Delay time (in number of frames) to load a new vehicle model variation.
#MinLoadedGangVeh     = 4        # (1) Minimum of gang vehicle models loaded in memory.

⚠️ Fastloader and .dat Files

By default, Fastloader will ask whether to rename (disable) cargrp.dat and object.dat files:
<img width="406" height="147" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8f0e74e7-a8a7-4221-92ec-69f5bb2e6163" />

It will append .bak to the file name:
<img width="178" height="120" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0eee36ad-a553-4e71-936c-d6bdafca4673" />

Why does this happen?
Fastloader starts before Modloader. Its task is to add new entries to the original object.dat or cargrp.dat files stored in /data.
The purpose of Fastloader is to load lines for newly added objects into object.dat or to add newly added cars into cargrp.dat.
When you have any object.dat or cargrp.dat inside modloader folder, modloader.asi will load this data again. It will cause the crashes.

👉 If you just want to load an object.dat or cargrp.dat file, leave it in Modloader. Don’t use Fastloader for it.
👉 When adding new props (like Project Props 3) or cars with FLA, Fastloader is your friend.

⚠️ Important: Fastloader will only load files with the .fastloader extension and only those which are implemented. It will ignore all others.

📄 License

MIT License – free to use, share, or modify. If you use this in your modpack, please credit and link back to this repository.

🤝 Authors

• Grinch – Core loader logic, .asi development
• Damix – Concept, design, testing, and integration ideas