Hello, I figured I would type out a bit of an essay if you will about some things I believe most people should try in order to fix their game if they are experiencing startup or some in-game crashes. I am doing this because after the title update, and after the SHV update, my game was seemingly completely broken and I was at a loss for a little bit on what to do. It took some digging and some pointers from a moderator here (thanks bastion!) and I have finally managed to completely resolve all  most of my issues, outside of the minor, few and far between plugin crashes in-game. 

 

So, I will compile a list below, and I encourage you to try these if you are running into Issues, most of the time this SHOULD fix it, however, I am in no position to give you any guarantees. 

Another thing that should be noted, but not counted off as completely unworthy of doing, is these fixes  steps WILL CONTAIN STEPS THAT WILL RESET YOUR MODS FOLDER! that means all cars, including addon Vehicles, and anything you've installed using OIV package installers, gameconfigs, World Mods, ELS Configs, pretty much anything that you have modified in your OIV, will be deleted and will have to be Reinstalled in order to work as it once did before. 

 

Quick disclaimer to the moderation team on LSPDFR.

If this is not allowed, then please do not hesitate to let me know or just outright take it down (I know you wouldn't hesitate lol) no hard feelings, I figured maybe I could take a slight bit of the load off with all of the new issues coming into the Support board. Again, If this is not allowed I do apologize. 

 

Disclaimer to reader - Backup your mods folder BEFORE DELETING IT (if you didn't, while still in your directory, press Cntrl +Z) 

I am NOT in anyway trying to impersonate, replace, or otherwise overtake the position of a Support Moderator, I am just a regular player who has been playing for years like most others trying to offer some tips. 

I am NOT going to be responsible for anyone who completely bricks their game, none of these steps in this post are capable of doing such things, so if you manage to pull that off, frankly, I'd be impressed.

 

With that said, lets begin.

 

1. Crashes on startup. (CAN'T EVEN GET INTO GAME)

Please note, this is one of the most important and often one of the only steps you may have to take in order to get your game to at least launch into LSPDFR, DELETE YOUR MODS FOLDER! navigate to your games root directory, find the 'mods' folder and delete it, if I am not mistaken, OIV should make a new mods folder automatically and you can begin rebuilding your mods folder again, which sometimes can be a blessing disguised as a curse. This is #1 for a reason, if you really want to play, take this step first. 

NOTE - if you feel inclined, I also recommend backing up your original mods folder, that way, if that turns out to not be the reason, you can revert back to what you had before and continue. 

1B. If that does not work, attempt to Launch GTA V without RPH at all, If it crashes on startup, verify integrity of your game cache, most of the time it should come up with a missing file or two.

 

2. Crashes upon loading LSPDFR plugin/freezes.

This can also play into a Mods folder issue, however, it can also be a plugin, script, ect. I would recommend checking over your callouts and such in order to rule out any outdated, malfunctional plugins/scripts. This is easier said than done, typically you would go one at a time, taking one plugin or script out and checking for functionality in order to rule any dysfunctional one out. Of course, it is completely up to you as to what method you use for this step. 

Note - If you use Police Menu, and it is not working In-game, you MUST REINSTALL IT COMPLETELY via the readme in the mods download folder, this is because the mod uses OIV files to function. I can personally confirm once you have done this police menu will work as intended.

 

3. Game is functional, but crashes after adding 1 or two addon vehicles to DLCList.xml

This issue had me stumped for a minute, if you are able to add replacement vehicles, but as soon as you add addon vehicles, whether it be one or a couple, your game crashes at loading screen or at startup, there are a couple steps to take. First, verify you have both PackLimitAdjuster AND HeapAdjuster Installed, next, and often the fix, is to go back into OIV and reinstall limitless game config from scratch. This one went over my head for a bit too, but I have since fixed it by reinstalling that gameconfig into OIV.

 

4. World Mods/Lighting Mods non-functional.

As previously stated, ANY modification made using OIV, whether manual Install or Packaged, MUST BE REINSTALLED. It seems that after the Title Update, if your game actually made the update, that any files in OIV that wasn't apart of the vanilla game was deleted/corrupted. Go back and resintall all of your World/Lighting overhaul mods from scratch, this DOES NOT include ReShade presets.

 

5. Callouts crashing, ect.

This is a very general issue and is often the fault of the callout itself, refer back to step 2. 

 

That's all I got for now. I will continue to Update this forum post (as long as its allowed of course) if/when I run into other issues and if/when I manage to fix those on my own.

I hope this helped at least one person get things back up and running again. 

Of course, as stated in my disclaimers above, this is not in anyway a promised fix to ANY issues, if you run into what seems to be an unfixable error, I of course can only recommend going to the LSPDFR Discord or Web Forum and creating your own post there for some personal and more in depth troubleshooting, best of luck!

Edited December 20, 20223 yr by GrizzlyCMMG

Can you link to the specific files you refer to at point 3? Including the specific gameconfig.xml you are using and where you have it installed.

 

Also whether or not you have LML installed. 

59 minutes ago, Ekalb said:

Can you link to the specific files you refer to at point 3? Including the specific gameconfig.xml you are using and where you have it installed.

 

Also whether or not you have LML installed. 

Sure, here you go! 

https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/gta-5-gameconfig-300-cars

Just follow the ReadMe instructions in the zip file, that will provide all of the instructions needed and will be installed exactly as mine is.

 

No LML, just manual addon installations. 

Edited December 20, 20223 yr by GrizzlyCMMG
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