He ran to the parking lot to find his car. As he approached, his frame rate dropped from a smooth 60 to a cinematic 4 frames per second. His PC fans began to sound like a jet engine preparing for takeoff. He tried to type /vget to spawn his vehicle, but the lag was so intense that the text appeared on the screen three minutes later.
He spawned at the Los Santos International Airport. The "Winter Pack" had definitely worked. The ground was blindingly white, though the trees were still bright green—a strange, radioactive autumn.
Roman hit the download button, ignoring the three pop-up ads for browser toolbars. When the file finally arrived, it was a 2GB giant. He dragged the files into his GTA folder, overwriting the original "gta3.img" without making a backup—because Roman lived on the edge. He clicked "Connect" on his favorite Roleplay server.