If you manage to get it running, the experience is a mixed bag of nostalgia and technical "jank": GTA San Andreas on Win9x, is it possible? - VOGONS
However, this didn't stop the modding community. The release of the game sparked a wave of "downgraders" and compatibility hacks. Modders dissected the executable, looking for NT-specific checks. The goal was to "trick" the game into believing it was running on an NT kernel or to strip out the calls that caused the 9x kernel to panic. gta san andreas windows 98