OK, perhaps I just need to vent. 

 

I reluctantly bought GTAV after decades of playing LCPDFR with GTAIV.  The "complete edition" upgrade finally broke it to the point where I couldn't play anymore.   

 

Spent literally months getting my GTAV (Steam Version) with all my desired mods and cofigs working just the way I wanted.  I knew the update was coming and got the advice to just make sure my game was backuped with RageHook.  Well, turns out that advice was not helpful.  RockStar apparently went out of their way to break the game for us, forcing the update, changing the loader and breaking all the hooks. 

 

So far, I can't get anything to work. I can't get GTAV to work forget about LSPDFR.  Tried all the "tricks" (short of deleting everything, walking away from months of work and starting all over again)  There must be a dll in the root directory causing issues.  What frustrates me the most is I know others have it running.  I have a ton of mods and a lot of complex XML edits.  I am sure one of them is causing the issue, but I am not getting any clues from the log files.  Everything runs normally and then it just stops loading with no errors.  

 

I updated  GTAV, LSPDFR, RPH.  Thought maybe the Gameconfig.xml was an issue.  Renamed my "mod" folder "_mod" still can't get the game to load.  I am sure there is something that is preventing this from loading and I guess the next step is to backup all my files, delete them and re-install.  Then slowly start adding things back in.  I just can't see anyway around this otherwise, but boy is it frustrating.  Looks like it is going to take my months (not counting the time waiting for the ScriptHookV to be updated) to get this back to where I liked it.  I spend more time setting the game up then I do playing it.   Now I know why it is called a RAGE plugin, because boy am I enraged.   I am sick of being forced to upgrade my games.  If it ain't broke don't !$$%$% fix it!!!

 

Now that I vented, if anyone has any suggestions to try before I wipe this all out and start from scratch, I would appreciate it.  Thanks. 

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by VPDPO190

It's just one of those things were any of us can't do anything about it. Tony Stark : Everybody wants a happy ending. Right? But it doesn't always roll that way. Maybe this time. I'm hoping if you play this back, it's in celebration. I hope families are reunited, I hope we get it back and something like a normal version of the planet has been restored, if there ever was such a thing.

15 hours ago, agent rogers said:

It's just one of those things were any of us can't do anything about it. Tony Stark : Everybody wants a happy ending. Right? But it doesn't always roll that way. Maybe this time. I'm hoping if you play this back, it's in celebration. I hope families are reunited, I hope we get it back and something like a normal version of the planet has been restored, if there ever was such a thing.

Well thanks for the words.  Of course in the grand scheme of things, LSPDFR is trivial.  But that said, I at least have it working again in near vanilla mode (I have a few mods working) , both GTAV and LSPDFR.   Slowly adding back in all my mods to see where it breaks.  Maybe it won't take months after all and it gives me a challenge to work on.  

I know the feeling. Last time I played LSPDFR (months ago now) I was having insane issues, either it was laggier than a Windows 95 PC in 2003 or it just flat out would not work.

 

The best advice I have is this:

 

(before you start with step 1 below, make note of the mods you've got installed)

 

1.) Purge GTAV from your computer. Every single trace. As Palpatine would say, "Wipe it out. All of it." Very annoying, I know. But sometimes a fresh install is the best course of action.
2.) Download and install the vanilla game. With zero mods. Zero. None.

3.) Run vanilla GTAV and play until you gain control of Franklin after he brings the first luxury car to Simeon.

4.) Install RPH

5.) Install LSPDFR

6.) Launch the game with ONLY LSPDFR and see if it works

7.) If it works, good! Now you're ready to layer your extra mods on top. I like to start with custom cars.

8.) If you need ELS, install that plus SHV.

9.) Pay attention to dependencies. Not saying you didn't, just consider it blanket/generic advice. Some mods are dependent on others that you wouldn't think they would be; for instance, PeterUCallouts was at one point -- likely still is -- dependent on PoliceSmartRadio, which itself is sadly very outdated.

10.) Don't install a bunch of mods in one go; install a mod, test it, then back out and either install the next or uninstall that one and try something else.

Thanks.  I meant to post that I got it all working again.  Everything, every mod and all my custom XMLs and plugins.   Didn't necessarily need to uninstall everything either.  Traced it back to a single mod in my LML folder.  It was actually something I wasn't using and forgot about it.  Removed that and then got an error that clued me into to some tweaks I needed to make to my gameconfig.xml.  Once I did all that I was up and running just like before.  Well, 99% anyway.   One or two of the XML files I had customized got replaced with the LSPDFR update and I need to fix those, but its not stopping the game from running. 

 

I just needed to vent.  I did and then got to work. Success over the weekend.  It helped that I had the my entire GTA folder backup on an archive drive.  Allowed me to replace edited files quickly