How to Disable Stats Reporting?

Raggio · September 11, 2011

Hello all!

I have tried looking on this website and using the search feature, but I am unable to find any documentation in regards to turning the stats reporting feature of LCPDFR off. For the record, I am using the 0.91 version, and I did not provide my username and password upon installation of the mod. The mod installed successfully, but I don't see a place in the included .ini file to turn off the stats reporting feature. I have set "Services|Enabled = True" to "Services|Enabled = False," but both the "LCPDFR.txt" and "LCPDFRErrorLog.txt" keep on filling up with stuff, the first of which is now over 100MB in about a week of game play (but the first one contains errors and debugs that are unrelated to the stats, it's the second file that fills up with things like "[9/10/2011 11:30:38 PM] [ASTATS] Anonymous usage stats not sent: possible server failure or no connectivity.")! At this rate, there will be a unneccessary file that will keep growing and taking up space...not that I don't have any, but I don't think this should be happening. Not having stats reported shouldn't be recorded in the logs as errors if I choose not to use the stats system...though I do understand and appreciate the stats system G17 is working on.

Is there a way to disable the stats reporting completely and to disable the error logging feature? If not, maybe in the future add a way to opt out of stats reporting and have the system not think it is an error?

Thank you in advance for any help! I appreciate it!

Iconography · September 11, 2011

It's not a big deal. At one time the developers, I think, wanted to get an idea of what people were using for hardware but they stopped doing that. Currently there is no way to stop the stats from attempting to report, but this may be addressed in the upcoming version.

September 11, 2011

that's correct.

And of course you are allowed to delete the logfiles ;-) They will create themselves again when needed.

I am sorry for not having a proper solution for this except deleting it manually but as already said in the new version this is getting fixed ;-)

Raggio · September 11, 2011

Hey, thanks for you guys' responses! Yeah, it's no big deal, just some minor details. I'm glad that it's getting fixed though! This mod is already very wonderful; I'm having a great time playing it! Thanks for your efforts, G17!

On another note, the only true problem I am experiencing is a crash at random times. This happens for both the official 0.91 and the beta 0.95 (bear in mind that I'm still asking about 0.91 though). For no apparent reason, the game sometimes just stops working. After paying closer attention, however, I think it happens when a random event, like a pursuit in progress, occurs. There's also another crash whenever I set vehicle density to above 50 and then turn on any ELS light setting (J, K, or L keys) in any ELS-enabled vehicle. It's almost an instant crash situation if I do that. My system is powerful enough to handle this game and mod though, with a Core i5 2500K @ 4.50GHz and 8GB RAM and an EVGA GTX 580 OC graphics card. I do use modded "high-poly cars of death" vehicles from gtapolicemods.com; is that the problem? Any ideas on why the random crash in the ramdom pursuit events, the crash when I call for NOOSE support (and only NOOSE; police, heli, fire, and ambulance all work fine), and the ELS-related crash? The error log doesn't record anything interesting, just the constant stats reporting error, so no help posting that.

Thanks for any help possible!

Jacob · September 11, 2011

ELS and/or high poly cars.

Try using ELSv5 if you are absolutely determined to use ELS, only difference is holo lights.

Raggio · September 11, 2011

OK, thanks! I will try that to see if it fixes the crashes.

Edited September 11, 2011 by Foruman

Raggio · September 11, 2011

One more thing I would like to point out to the G17 team is that for some reason, and this also happens in both the official 0.91 and the beta 0.95, one car (Police Patriot) always has problems loading at the police station closest to the Middle Park East safehouse. When this happens, the textures will become wierd and low quality, like the known bug people have been reporting after playing for a long time. When I use a trainer to teleport other police stations (I haven't tried all of them yet), all the cars load fine. I also tried restoring the original car files (vehicles.img) and that doesn't help. There's something interesting in the log file, so I have posted it below.

[ERROR - 12:39:22 PM] An unhandled exception occured in LCPD:FR. Details: Failed to create vehicle for model selection.

at eval_0.eval_0.eval_0.LCPDFR-eval_8.eval_LCPDFR-6(LCPDFR-eval_1 A_0)

at eval_0.eval_0.eval_0.LCPDFR-eval_8.eval_0(KeyEventArgs A_0)

at CSharp.Engine.Script.ScriptManager.GKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)

Debug info:

Additional info: Script: Scripts.GoOnDuty

CarModelIndex: 2

Edited September 11, 2011 by Foruman

Raggio · September 12, 2011

Hey, thanks for you guys' responses! Yeah, it's no big deal, just some minor details. I'm glad that it's getting fixed though! This mod is already very wonderful; I'm having a great time playing it! Thanks for your efforts, G17!

On another note, the only true problem I am experiencing is a crash at random times. This happens for both the official 0.91 and the beta 0.95 (bear in mind that I'm still asking about 0.91 though). For no apparent reason, the game sometimes just stops working. After paying closer attention, however, I think it happens when a random event, like a pursuit in progress, occurs. There's also another crash whenever I set vehicle density to above 50 and then turn on any ELS light setting (J, K, or L keys) in any ELS-enabled vehicle. It's almost an instant crash situation if I do that. My system is powerful enough to handle this game and mod though, with a Core i5 2500K @ 4.50GHz and 8GB RAM and an EVGA GTX 580 OC graphics card. I do use modded "high-poly cars of death" vehicles from gtapolicemods.com; is that the problem? Any ideas on why the random crash in the ramdom pursuit events, the crash when I call for NOOSE support (and only NOOSE; police, heli, fire, and ambulance all work fine), and the ELS-related crash? The error log doesn't record anything interesting, just the constant stats reporting error, so no help posting that.

Thanks for any help possible!

An update on the NOOSE crashes. After several test runs, I've narrowed down the problem to the Middle Park East police station. If I start LCPDFR from that police station, my game will instantaneously crash upon NOOSE requests. It will also fail to create the Police Patriot model most of the time during the car selection (see post above for details), which may be related to the NOOSE crash issue. If I start from any other police station (haven't tried all of them yet still), everything is fine; the game loads the cars correctly, and NOOSE support arrives when called for without any crashes. I called about 4 units to check if it's because of too many cars/moving parts, and that doesn't seem to be the case. I don't know what's with the Middle Park East police station, but it's very buggy and causes frequent crashes...my workaround now is to avoid it at all costs, lol! :D

Edited September 12, 2011 by Foruman