When I turn on ELS I get the lights flashing but at a very very dim setting like when you turn the car off and turn els on.

You have to go into visualsettings.dat and find a line that says other emmisive lights and set it higher.

Follow what this guy say. :-) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhKa28-IWZ8

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i did what the guy said and all i can find is visal settings.xls and when i click on it, it opens in microsoft excel.

can you upload the original visual settings.dat if you have it?

rightclick it and open it in word. 

i opened it in ms word and i opened it in notepad and it is both written in unicode.

did you open visualsettings.dat?

i searched the whole C drive and it would not find visualsettings.dat

 

If you don't have the visualsettings.dat you may have deleted it in the past.

Download this (http://www.gta-downloads.com/en/gta4/file-backups/10673-common-folder-backup.html)

 

Once it finishes, take the visualsettings.dat out of the data folder in your common backup and place it in your C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto IVcommondata

 

EDIT: when you download ELS v6 it also comes with a visualsettings.dat optimized for ELS

Edited March 23, 201313 yr by Chamimnya

Thanks that did it!!!

EDIT: when you download ELS v6 it also comes with a visualsettings.dat optimized for ELS

I actually downloaded ELS v6 earlier as I had downloaded dopplers vehicles pack and it was needed. According to the text files.

 

As you said, it does include a visual settings.dat file but it is for GTAIV only. Not EFLC. If I overwrite the VisualSettings.dat file found in C:Program Files (x86)Rockstar GamesEFLCcommondata the game doesn't load. The login box appears then the game closes.

 

Whats wrong?