Paranoidgvin: Is this a graphic mod? would be nice. And yeah, why is everyone so dislikes Complete 2009?
The starter pack includes mostly graphical updates and the ZRP community patch. ZRP fixes many bugs which make Vanilla SOC very rough to play. ZRP does not change gameplay from Vanilla very much (you can configure what changes you want to actually use). I'd very much recommend using ZRP for bug fixes
Like rmgb said, Complete basically makes the game easier and the versions of the graphical enhancements and bugfixes it uses are all really old.
The Starter Pack is comparable to Complete in the sense that you just have to install a single pack and are good to go.
Just try it out, if you don't like it, you can just delete it from your /gamedata folder. It's not complicated to remove.
Starter Pack includes:
Zone Reclamation Project - huge community effort of fixing bugs and adding some features which we're left out of the vanilla SoC, comes with a configurator.
Old Weapons Renewal 3 for SoC - better looking sounding gun models
Photo Realistic Zone - texture pack for ground, trees, structures etc
Stalker Weather Overhaul - better looking weather and skyboxes
STALKER Shaders MAX 1.06 - better looking shaders, adds depth of field, slight motion blur (newest version uses Autumn Aurora Shaders)
FOV Switcher v17 - Field of View switcher for stalker series, comes with instructions, works for other versions of the game