Windy City & Windy City Christmas Edition [Add-On] 1.4 with Hotfix 1
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Mod was critically acclaimed and featured on several known and less known publication websites dedicated to games and tech.
IMPORTANT: compatible with GTA 5 Enhanced, although replaces original GTA 5 map. After downloading, make sure to read Installation Notes Read this.txt file in the downloaded archive. Windy City Complete map Experiment is standalone to Windy City 1.4 Hotfix 1, so make sure you have installed either one on clean game install, not both!
HOW TO INSTALL THE LATEST UPDATE (brief instructions)?
First install the base version for either Legacy or Enhanced version of the game. Download the 2 ZIP files from the update, popzones (last post) is optional, but serves to increase pedestrian density and traffic variety. Add and replace data based on addresses labeled by folder names, e.g. mods-update-update.rpf means mods/update/update.rpf. Delete any old mod navmesh data (YNV files) found in rmp_chicago DLC (rmp_chicago.rpf) and any found in navmeshes0.rpf to navmeshes9.rpf - you may want to retain navmeshes for vehicle, though, they have unique names. NOTE that the updated data was tested on Enhanced version primarily, but may work well on Legacy as well.
popzones file added to increase pedestrian density (based on setup at Del Perro Beach on original map) and increase vehicle traffic variety.
All mod versions here are for Grand Theft Auto V Legacy.
December 2025 CHANGE LOG:
-Christmas Update for Windy City (Legacy) and Windy City Enhanced.
-Hotfix 2 fixing missing building collisions.
-Emissive nightlights update for better visibility at night (included only in Christmas Edition).
Windy City Complete map Experiment CHANGELOG:
-Chicago (Windy City) as a island, experimental (test) version, with undeveloped features like holistic prop detailing, building population in some areas, traffic, ped navmeshes etc.
Windy City 1.4 with Hotfix 1 CHANGELOG:
-Re-added Parkway Garden (O'Block) projects, Maggie Daley and Milennium Park expansions
-Added Chicago POD (Police Observation Device) prop placements in O'Block area
June 2025 CHANGELOG
-Added FiveM versions for Complete map experiment and 1.4 with Hotfix 1 (revision 1)
Windy City 1.4 CHANGELOG:
-Added new MLO interiors, this is the current list of all MLO interior added thus far:
Safehouse (penthouse), Hairdresser (barber shop), 2 convenience stores (supermarket), Nightclub venue (Tequi-la-la), Big bank (Pacific Standard), Tattoo parlor, Jewelry store (Vangelico), 2 police stations, clothes shop, fire station, destroyed hospital (Pillbox Hill), Mystery interior
-Graphical fixes
Windy City 1.3 CHANGELOG:
-added new playable areas of fully reimagined O'Block projects, Maggie Daley park and Millennium park
Windy City 1.2 CHANGELOG:
-3 billboards and railing on Lake Shore Drive. Billboards feature Grand Senora Desert tourism Advertisement, Cluckin' Bell and a vehicle sale commercial
-Cargens (random parked vehicles) and fencing on west part of the map
-Traffic path node (YND) fixes close to The Trump Tower area with 2 intersections trimmed and fixed. Additional traffic with detailed lanes ("HD Traffic") added to loop around the adjacent block
-Michigan tunnel collision fix, no more invisible wall glitches
-Marina Tower now has added and corrected window textures that reflect at day and night using spec shader
-Rearrangement of roadblock barriers and addition of more instances to prevent players to venture into non-playable areas of the map. A "floating" road barrier near the big crane has been corrected and positioned accordingly
-Navmesh (YNV) fixes which prevent NPC's from spawning and falling into their death near Milennium Park, building near The Trump Tower and patched peds that used to spawn within concrete blocks on Lake Shore Drive and within the area where the new parking cargens and railing was added
-Additional interior (unreachable by normal means)
Windy City 1.11 CHANGELOG:
-Collision fix since the sideffect of non-functionality brought by GTA Online The Contract DLC
-Full, standalone release in 2 installation methods: manual and automated installation via OpenIV Package file (OIV)
-Main menu fix (No more headache trying to manually find the map)
Windy City 1.1 CHANGELOG:
- New traffic nodes
- Added clothes store MLO interior
- EMS (Emergency Services) MLO interiors
- Block expansion with EMS objects, new roads, land and rearrangement of initial map
- Traffic light prop fixes
- Light pollution file misplacement correction
The High Definition area of Downtown Chicago was extracted from the Racing Sim game Race Driver GRID 2, developed by Codemasters. Source map was edited from a mod Race Map Pack by Derkuwinator: https://dekurwinator-mods.bitrix24.site/
It was then further remastered to see use in free roam gameplay styles that Grand Theft Auto is well known for.
Google Maps 3D scanned area is added as complementary to the existing as to certify map is not an island and rather an illusive landlocked zone. GTA 3 (III) was the only 3D GTA to feature such a way of depicting a world to players of the franchise.
LEGAL: Assets used within this modification are largely IP (Intellectual Property), but not limited to Codemasters, Google, Rockstar Games, and Take-Two Interactive respectively. Please refer to the company website(s) for more information:
Take-Two Interactive
https://www.take2games.com/
Rockstar Games
https://www.rockstargames.com/
Codemasters
https://www.codemasters.com/
Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps
Content depicted is in no way endorsed or associated with Codemasters, Rockstar Games, Take-Two Inc, nor Google.
Mod Credits:
Race Map Pack, Dekurwinator
https://dekurwinator-mods.bitrix24.site/racemappack/
GTA 5 Chicago, FV Mods, Lozano, Jdmimport
WINDY CITY CHRISTMAS UPDATE, FV Mods, Lozano
2008 Liberty City Metro Train Replace 1.0, Derpy-Canadian
https://libertycity.ru/files/gta-5/116931-2008-liberty-city-metro-train-replace.html
GTA V Enhanced Cloud Depth & Atmosphere 1.2, nkjellman, CP, robi29, Razed
https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/enhanced-cloud-depth-atmosphere
https://www.patreon.com/razedmods
GAMECONFIG.XML, FV Mods, F7YO
https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/gta-5-gameconfig-300-cars
Simple Trainer, sjaak327
Rockstar North and Rockstar Games in its entirety.
Tool credits:
OpenIV, OpenIV Team
GIMS EVO, 3Doomer
GIMS IV, 3Doomer
CodeWalker, dexyfex
OpenMapTools, dexyfex
Först uppladdad: 24 december 2020
Senast uppdaterad: 25 december 2025
Senast nedladdad: 2 minuter sen
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Mod was critically acclaimed and featured on several known and less known publication websites dedicated to games and tech.
IMPORTANT: compatible with GTA 5 Enhanced, although replaces original GTA 5 map. After downloading, make sure to read Installation Notes Read this.txt file in the downloaded archive. Windy City Complete map Experiment is standalone to Windy City 1.4 Hotfix 1, so make sure you have installed either one on clean game install, not both!
HOW TO INSTALL THE LATEST UPDATE (brief instructions)?
First install the base version for either Legacy or Enhanced version of the game. Download the 2 ZIP files from the update, popzones (last post) is optional, but serves to increase pedestrian density and traffic variety. Add and replace data based on addresses labeled by folder names, e.g. mods-update-update.rpf means mods/update/update.rpf. Delete any old mod navmesh data (YNV files) found in rmp_chicago DLC (rmp_chicago.rpf) and any found in navmeshes0.rpf to navmeshes9.rpf - you may want to retain navmeshes for vehicle, though, they have unique names. NOTE that the updated data was tested on Enhanced version primarily, but may work well on Legacy as well.
popzones file added to increase pedestrian density (based on setup at Del Perro Beach on original map) and increase vehicle traffic variety.
All mod versions here are for Grand Theft Auto V Legacy.
December 2025 CHANGE LOG:
-Christmas Update for Windy City (Legacy) and Windy City Enhanced.
-Hotfix 2 fixing missing building collisions.
-Emissive nightlights update for better visibility at night (included only in Christmas Edition).
Windy City Complete map Experiment CHANGELOG:
-Chicago (Windy City) as a island, experimental (test) version, with undeveloped features like holistic prop detailing, building population in some areas, traffic, ped navmeshes etc.
Windy City 1.4 with Hotfix 1 CHANGELOG:
-Re-added Parkway Garden (O'Block) projects, Maggie Daley and Milennium Park expansions
-Added Chicago POD (Police Observation Device) prop placements in O'Block area
June 2025 CHANGELOG
-Added FiveM versions for Complete map experiment and 1.4 with Hotfix 1 (revision 1)
Windy City 1.4 CHANGELOG:
-Added new MLO interiors, this is the current list of all MLO interior added thus far:
Safehouse (penthouse), Hairdresser (barber shop), 2 convenience stores (supermarket), Nightclub venue (Tequi-la-la), Big bank (Pacific Standard), Tattoo parlor, Jewelry store (Vangelico), 2 police stations, clothes shop, fire station, destroyed hospital (Pillbox Hill), Mystery interior
-Graphical fixes
Windy City 1.3 CHANGELOG:
-added new playable areas of fully reimagined O'Block projects, Maggie Daley park and Millennium park
Windy City 1.2 CHANGELOG:
-3 billboards and railing on Lake Shore Drive. Billboards feature Grand Senora Desert tourism Advertisement, Cluckin' Bell and a vehicle sale commercial
-Cargens (random parked vehicles) and fencing on west part of the map
-Traffic path node (YND) fixes close to The Trump Tower area with 2 intersections trimmed and fixed. Additional traffic with detailed lanes ("HD Traffic") added to loop around the adjacent block
-Michigan tunnel collision fix, no more invisible wall glitches
-Marina Tower now has added and corrected window textures that reflect at day and night using spec shader
-Rearrangement of roadblock barriers and addition of more instances to prevent players to venture into non-playable areas of the map. A "floating" road barrier near the big crane has been corrected and positioned accordingly
-Navmesh (YNV) fixes which prevent NPC's from spawning and falling into their death near Milennium Park, building near The Trump Tower and patched peds that used to spawn within concrete blocks on Lake Shore Drive and within the area where the new parking cargens and railing was added
-Additional interior (unreachable by normal means)
Windy City 1.11 CHANGELOG:
-Collision fix since the sideffect of non-functionality brought by GTA Online The Contract DLC
-Full, standalone release in 2 installation methods: manual and automated installation via OpenIV Package file (OIV)
-Main menu fix (No more headache trying to manually find the map)
Windy City 1.1 CHANGELOG:
- New traffic nodes
- Added clothes store MLO interior
- EMS (Emergency Services) MLO interiors
- Block expansion with EMS objects, new roads, land and rearrangement of initial map
- Traffic light prop fixes
- Light pollution file misplacement correction
The High Definition area of Downtown Chicago was extracted from the Racing Sim game Race Driver GRID 2, developed by Codemasters. Source map was edited from a mod Race Map Pack by Derkuwinator: https://dekurwinator-mods.bitrix24.site/
It was then further remastered to see use in free roam gameplay styles that Grand Theft Auto is well known for.
Google Maps 3D scanned area is added as complementary to the existing as to certify map is not an island and rather an illusive landlocked zone. GTA 3 (III) was the only 3D GTA to feature such a way of depicting a world to players of the franchise.
LEGAL: Assets used within this modification are largely IP (Intellectual Property), but not limited to Codemasters, Google, Rockstar Games, and Take-Two Interactive respectively. Please refer to the company website(s) for more information:
Take-Two Interactive
https://www.take2games.com/
Rockstar Games
https://www.rockstargames.com/
Codemasters
https://www.codemasters.com/
Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps
Content depicted is in no way endorsed or associated with Codemasters, Rockstar Games, Take-Two Inc, nor Google.
Mod Credits:
Race Map Pack, Dekurwinator
https://dekurwinator-mods.bitrix24.site/racemappack/
GTA 5 Chicago, FV Mods, Lozano, Jdmimport
WINDY CITY CHRISTMAS UPDATE, FV Mods, Lozano
2008 Liberty City Metro Train Replace 1.0, Derpy-Canadian
https://libertycity.ru/files/gta-5/116931-2008-liberty-city-metro-train-replace.html
GTA V Enhanced Cloud Depth & Atmosphere 1.2, nkjellman, CP, robi29, Razed
https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/enhanced-cloud-depth-atmosphere
https://www.patreon.com/razedmods
GAMECONFIG.XML, FV Mods, F7YO
https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/gta-5-gameconfig-300-cars
Simple Trainer, sjaak327
Rockstar North and Rockstar Games in its entirety.
Tool credits:
OpenIV, OpenIV Team
GIMS EVO, 3Doomer
GIMS IV, 3Doomer
CodeWalker, dexyfex
OpenMapTools, dexyfex
Först uppladdad: 24 december 2020
Senast uppdaterad: 25 december 2025
Senast nedladdad: 2 minuter sen
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@EncryptedReality Bit of an odd question, is there a way to get this to work with liberty city v remix?
17 juli 2025 -
Excellent, it's working. I'm on game version 3411/1.70 btw for modding reasons so the game doesn't keep updating. A few things I'd fix,
1- The mini-map is behaving a little weird maybe because of some other mini-map mods I have like DNX chilliad town (It adds its own mini-map so the files are edited already because of that maybe) and colorful radar if it can be fixed or instructions are posted maybe we can fix it on our own. The mini-map has a purple tint to it kindly help to remove that too so its like the base game.
2- The buildings at the edges of the map have gaps they look ugly. There should be an update to fix it asap.
3- The roads at the edges of the map which fall off from the map should be blocked by unbreakable barriers placed at the very end of the edge so we can't fall off.13 september 2025 -
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How do you install this with nve? where is the game's main install location equivalent in onigiri?
28 november 2025 -
i've installed it correctly (i'm used to install these mods) but in game nothing appears
24 december 2025 -
"Definitive" gameplay of Windy City mod in downtown area, with new updates relating to realism: https://youtu.be/svfFN_HUgBo
24 december 2025 -
Updated the release file with the correct content XML (in rmp_chicago dlc.rpf) that loads the mod DLC.
25 december 2025 -
@EncryptedReality Will this new update have traffic paths? Because your older versions had them, when I tried the new one, nothing showed.
25 december 2025 -
@Starfox1993 It already does. You need to install the base version first before installing the update files.
25 december 2025 -
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@EncryptedReality im interested, what mods i need for this big mod.
heap file- packfile, fwstreamer box? or others? MORE?26 december 2025 -
@Neuromance For Enhanced version: OpenRPF / NVEnhanced onigiri, ASI loader, CodeWalker to install everything, gameconfig is optional, but desirable: https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/expanded-enhanced-gameconfig-gta-5-enhanced
For Legacy: HeapAdjuster, OpenIV ASI, ASI Loader, gameconfig, OpenIV to install everything, you can try this gameconfig too: https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/gta-5-gameconfig-300-cars
26 december 2025 -
Can this added without replace the Los santos? I want new island map but without replacing, kinda like Liberty city preservation project mod
27 december 2025 -
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some buildings' textures are missing, some roads are empty, there is no connection between the roads and the oblock, in front of the oblock there is nothing but an empty floor, I just want to ask if this problem is due to the fact that I downloaded something incorrectly or maybe these are empty areas that will be updated in the future?
31 december 2025 -
Do you think it's possible to add custom peds, like the LCPP did? I think if you added custom gangs and what not, it'll really bring some life to the map, aswell as additional lore. San Andreas has the Ballas and Families, so maybe there could be some parody of the GD and BD's or something, not sure.
6 dagar sen -
I've installed it on ehnaced with nve in onigiri, but the game closes every time
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Windy City Christmas Edition was updated to work on GTA 5 Enhanced and some adjustments were made for the GTA 5 Legacy version of the mod. In addition to this, Hotfix 2 has been released for both mod versions and fixes some building collision issues. More info in mod description.