Hey guys, I had a separate post that I made talking about a couple of cruisers that are Non-ELS that also have identical ELS-H versions. In order for this to work you have to have ELS installed properly. I use V6 and have had no problems whatsoever. Just make sure to disable ELS for AI in SP mode in your ELS.ini. They won't need it anyway.

Non-ELS Chevy Impala

Non-ELS CVPI

Ok, using these two cars make the CVPI your police and the Impala your police2. I got this idea when Break said he didn't mod his police and police2 with ELS enabled cars, and it helped his stability. These cruisers are not ELS enabled, so you won't have to worry about the extra load on your system when you acquire a lot of back up units. These will be the police vehicles that all the AI drive.

Second thing you want to do is go to C:/GTAIV/Common/Data (or wherever your GTA folder is located). Find the file called cargrp.dat. Scroll down until you see the line that starts with police, police2... Delete the other cars behind police2 so that the line has only police, police2 in it. This will ensure that only those vehicles are driven by police in your game. These will be the units that respond to your back up calls, the Non-ELS modded cars we added in Step #1.

ELS-H CVPI

ELS-H Chevy Impala

Ok, these cars are identical in every way to the Non-ELS cars you added in the first step, except that they are halogen only versions of the vehicles. These two vehicles are going to be the vehicle that the player drives. One goes in the FBI slot, the other should occupy one of the stockades. You'll have to edit the handling.dat and vehicles.dat to make the vehicle you replaced the stockade with handle and act appropriately in the game. Also make sure to edit carcols.dat to change the FBI and whichever stockade you use to be white. Make sure that you enable the halogen only option for these vehicles.

Last thing you want to do is edit the popcycle.dat file and replace every value you see for perccopcars column to a 1. This will reduce the number of modded police vehicles found throughout the city, and as a result lower the polys to make your game run more stable.

For textures, I use LCPD Themed Livery it gives some nice looking textures for the LCPD.

Well there you go, you now have continuity in your livery, none of your cruisers look out of place, ELS or not, and you have the functionality of ELS in the cruisers that you, yourself drive. I haven't had a crash since doing this.

Edited August 4, 201114 yr by mclmrtn

Halogen only requires ELS V6 though, which is less stable than ELS V5. Also wont the lights look dramatically different?

Halogen only requires ELS V6 though, which is less stable than ELS V5. Also wont the lights look dramatically different?

Yes, I said I use ELS 6. ELS 5 is more stable, however, with the AI not using it, 6 will work just fine. The car's lights look different (when they're on) yes, but its the absolute closest you're going to get. The stock GTA squad cars look woefully different, and these modded cars look markedly better. The difference in the lighting isn't enough to distract or ruin your immersion into the world. In fact, I was using these Non-ELS cars before I discovered that they had ELS versions, and these Non-ELS cars are actually pretty good. This is mainly for people, like me, who don't like the lightbar R* put on their cars and who want a more traditional Red/Blue lightbar (not to mention an actual CVPI and Impala).

Yes, I said I use ELS 6. ELS 5 is more stable, however, with the AI not using it, 6 will work just fine. The car's lights look different (when they're on) yes, but its the absolute closest you're going to get. The stock GTA squad cars look woefully different, and these modded cars look markedly better. The difference in the lighting isn't enough to distract or ruin your immersion into the world. In fact, I was using these Non-ELS cars before I discovered that they had ELS versions, and these Non-ELS cars are actually pretty good. This is mainly for people, like me, who don't like the lightbar R* put on their cars and who want a more traditional Red/Blue lightbar (not to mention an actual CVPI and Impala).

Here it is, the ELS Impala Lights vs the Non-ELS Impala Lights

I'll consider giving that a try later. Last time I tried to work with non-els cars, they police still would not turn on their lights, as if ELS was still active.

I'll consider giving that a try later. Last time I tried to work with non-els cars, they police still would not turn on their lights, as if ELS was still active.

Did you set AI not to use ELS in the ELS.ini? Also, I go through and deactivate it individually on each vehicle that doesn't use it and haven't had issues with AI using it when it wasn't supposed to.

To get it good or a little more stable, mod the other cars. (NOoSE, FIB Buffalo, NOoSE patriot, etc.)