I am sure it is a lot more difficult than it sounds or it would be done already but I am amazed with all the awesome mods and scripts out for GTA IV, there sure are a lot of smart people, I wander why no one has tried to rewrite the game to make it more stable, or maybe just rewriting some problem files to make it more stable. Is this something that has been attempted? 

HA! sorry.......

Oh wow.... well your member title suits you well... This isn't something that can just be done by one or two people. Think of the team of people who made GTA IV and the resources that Rockstar has that were used to develop this game. Not to mention the fact that you can't just access the code to rewrite it, its just not that simple and even if you could and had the know how your talking about hundreds of hours of work. Now I don't know much of anything about coding or what it takes to develop a game and I'm just speaking hypothetically but I'm assuming if you rewrote the entire game the current mods would no longer work meaning the community would be starting at square one again. Not to mention the legal issues. Take GTA V for example, it took them 5 years to develop and thats a large team of highly skilled people

 Not to mention the fact that you can't just access the code to rewrite it, 

 

 

Are the codes that modify the game that indifferent than the ones that run it? 

Are the codes that modify the game that indifferent than the ones that run it? 

They're extremely different, if that's what you're asking, yes. Scripts for GTA IV mostly manipulate existing code by injecting commands into live memory and are often written in a different programming language than GTA IV was.

Interesting, ya learn something new every day. 

Actually, LMS has been doing something similar to this. He isn't rewriting code, but he has been developing solutions to one of the main problems with GTA IV.

 

He explains the problem here, analyzes it here, and fixes it here. I think this is the AdvancedHook.dll that is installed with LCPDFR and I'm sure this is one of the reasons LCPDFR has been taking so long to develop.

Very interesting. Looks like I have some reading and learning to do.