RagePluginHook.log

Pretty fed up with this game and the mod.

About year ago I got LCPDFR working great. then the "GREAT HEIST" update was released, and ever since LCPDFR has never been able to run.
I finally uninstalled GTA5 all together, and gave up on this mod and game entirely for quite some time. Since I have updated my motherboard, Storage capability and Graphics card / RAM as well.

But here we are today, and its the same song and dance.

Install LCPDFR - it works fine , call outs work, its nice but missing some features. so you install EUP and its dependencies - this time using "Lenny's mod" - and after some troubleshooting this works.
So you want to install a ticketing system "police computer"
You used OpenIV to install into the right directory.... for police computer - but it keeps saying that the files are missing in the archive.
What?
So  you install them, then rockstar's launcher "updates" the game - deleting the files.
Ok no matter, I'll just give LCPDFR some playtime and boom - Another issue. Now when call outs are received, the game just CTD.

lol

So I look in the log and I see "slimDX" a known error. "oh well should be a known solution for a known error!"
NOPE:
"there is no direct solution yet, these are things others have tried and have found success"

So I try;

updating drivers, removing slimDX and starting the game, uninstalling various mods, restarting the computer, checking audio settings/drivers, uninstalling "ansi loader" from OpenIV, reinstalling rage plugin hook, ensuring i have the latest RagenativeUI.DLL, investigating forums only to find most simply just *gave up*.

Are you serious?

I can see why they call it "RAGEpluginhook" cause your *(^$*(@) Enraged by the end of the project.
How is it, in the what, 8 years LCPDFR since GTA4 (which finally was able to be played at some stage without crashes),and LSPDFR for gta5, How is it in this time of looking into it now, 3 years? How is it this SlimDX error isn't figured out?

What a sad story for a modification and community with such potential.

Edited November 3, 20232 yr by 1369666

3 hours ago, 1369666 said:

RagePluginHook.log
So  you install them, then rockstar's launcher "updates" the game - deleting the files.

If you installed mod files in the mods folder, like has been recommended for years now, this is literally impossible.

3 hours ago, 1369666 said:

Are you serious?
...
I can see why they call it "RAGEpluginhook" cause your *(^$*(@) Enraged by the end of the project.
How is it, in the what, 8 years LCPDFR since GTA4 (which finally was able to be played at some stage without crashes),and LSPDFR for gta5, How is it in this time of looking into it now, 3 years? How is it this SlimDX error isn't figured out?

1. (I know it was tongue in cheek but) Rage stands for Rockstar.Advanced.Game.Engine ("plugin hook" is pretty self explanatory) the game engine that Rockstar created and that runs GTA.

2. It is no one in the community's fault that Rockstar are completely anti-modding and have constantly tried to shutdown mod creators and mod access at every opportunity they can. 

3. In that regard it makes sense why GTA V is worse than GTA IV - Rockstar have gotten more advanced and more anti-mod.

4. Everything we have in terms of modding Rockstar games is because amazing talented people have found smart workarounds to all the roadblocks Rockstar have put in place. 

 

3 hours ago, 1369666 said:

What a sad story for a modification and community with such potential.

This community is filled with amazing people who have dedicated so much time and effort for free to help ungrateful people like you time and time again.

Do you know why any of those troubleshooting steps are known? Because people like A Stranger (Head of the RPH discord and creator of the RPH faq(which has every known possible solution to the SlimDX error for example)), and many others, have spent years of their lives, thousands of hours of their free time, dedicated to helping people and finding solutions to the problems that come along with modding a game that does not want to be modded. 

 

I'm sure it's frustrating to try and solve such an annoying issue when you just wanna play the game. But don't take it out on the people who are the ones that are literally trying to help and have laid the groundwork for every troubleshooting step you have tried so far for this issue and every other known issue. 

 

In conclusion double check the RPH FAQ double check every step as everything known about that error is documented there.

 

_{P.s. when dealing with problems it's always good to be specific - For GTA V it's called LSDPFR not LCPDFR}

Edited November 3, 20232 yr by Mrsuperx13

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4 hours ago, 1369666 said:

Are you serious?

I can see why they call it "RAGEpluginhook" cause your *(^$*(@) Enraged by the end of the project.
How is it, in the what, 8 years LCPDFR since GTA4 (which finally was able to be played at some stage without crashes),and LSPDFR for gta5, How is it in this time of looking into it now, 3 years? How is it this SlimDX error isn't figured out?

What a sad story for a modification and community with such potential.

 

To add to this and @Mrsuperx13's incredibly informative response; the SlimDX issue is a system-specific error.
Meaning that yes; it's an exception caused in RPH by your system.

 

The Antivirus scheme + the reinstallation of DX and system specific drivers has always seemed to work best.
It's not RPH, LSPD:FR or your mods. It's your system. And that is why it's so hard to diagnose. 
Everyone's system is different.

 

Therefor, please retry the steps in the RPH FAQ like mentioned above. 

As said all the way back in 2020:

Welp I figured it out.

If you uninstall the game and dump the project completely, your problems are resolved.