Hi All,

How are you?

I have recently purchased a copy of GTA IV and I intend on downloading LCPD:FR when i get home from work tonight.

Now, I am Australian and would like to be running an Australian police car. I have watched some videos that make it easy to install cars into the game, as it simply replaces all of that car with the one you chose.

The Video i watched that gave me this information/This program:

The Program is called:
GTA IV Vehicle Mod Installer
http://www.gta4-mods.com/tools/gta-iv-vehicle-mod-installer-v12-f11235

If i do it this way with this car:
Holden Commodore SS
http://www.gta4-mods.com/vehicles/holden-commodore-ss-fbinoose-f11389

Will it still work for the game?

What is ELS and will ELS change/affect that car at all in anyway other than originally intended?

 

I tried to install a whole bunch of cars at one point, as well as iCEnhancer (which worked.) I got the taxi bug, so i then tried to install the Traffic Flow - Which then bugged the game out completely. When i deleted and replaced the files with the originals, it gave me errors constantly so I completely removed the game and tonight I intend on attempting it again. 

That is about all the questions I have, I am extremely new at this and I have been reading all of the support threads. I would have posted in Support but i believe that my post is also useful for a Discussion which is why i have started it here.

I am really content on playing this add-on. I am hopeful that my long, all over the place post will get an answer from someone, as I have tried to install this multiple times (without researching off this forum) and have failed miserably, So this time i would like to go in with all the knoweldge that I can so that I don't fail again.

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 201312 yr by Rickstaaaa87

Hello!  

 

First off, in regards to the taxi bug, the bug will happen anytime you mod your cars with high-poly models.  Furthermore, I noticed that the civilian car mods have huge poly counts, dwarfing the poly counts of the highest-poly police vehicles on this site (my civilian Vette has a poly count of something like 10+megs and my Sultan RS mod has something like 18meg!  By comparison, and my BxBuggs high poly police car is at 4meg).  So that will just wreak havock on the cars that spawn (only taxis') and probably texture loss/popping/flashing.  Just install Traffic Load (you can configure this one) or use Chikmaru's Real Traffic; I tend to bounce between the two.  I do not like Traffic Flow because you only get 20 cars spawning out of the 90+ in-game, and I notice the traffic spawns in alleys, on the beach and on the boardwalk, everywhere a car will fit.  

 

With ELS and LCPDFR installed, as well as probably 25-30 other mods/scripts running, you want to keep your vehicle density under 40 (I keep mine between 25-30), and drop your view and detail distances in half at least.  This will help with the texture issue that may arise.

 

As for installing the car mods, use SparkIV or OpenIV.  I tend to use SparkIV, as it's a simpler interface, but many prefer OpenIV...depending on what you're modding.

 

Good luck!!

DrDetroit

Here is the more basic answer:

 

I would recommend you use OpenIV. You can use SparkIV too of course, not much difference if you are only installing vehicles. I use both but prefer to use OpenIV.

 

ELS stands for Emergency Lighting System. It is used for ELS enabled vehicles which allows you to have better emergency flashy lights, compared to the default in game emergency flashes.

If you aren't installing any emergency vehicles, ELS makes no difference to your game play. 

 

eric35

Hi guys,

Thanks for the help. It worked for me which was good. I have the game installed and running perfectly fine.

Even managed to install the Police Helper, which is awesome.

I have installed ELS7 but have found with some of the cars I am unable to shoot out the windows, it just keeps smashing the windows and doesn't allow me to break it and shoot while driving.

That's a feature of ELS, as the lights are being constantly spawned, it is constantly refreshing the car removing all the damage.