Let me propose it to the OP this way....

 

Either accept your free software, and don't complain, or go to some other game, where you get something like 1/3rd of what this *free* mod gives you, except for 15$.

 

So either pay 45$ in DLC for stable(wouldn't even really be much more stable than LCPDFR anyways due to GTAIV engine instability), or pay nothing for not entirely stable.

 

In short: If someone gives you something free of charge: Don't complain.

 

EDIT: And major thanks to LCPDFR staff. Especially for sticking through this. I was working solo projects, on games such as World of Tanks, Fallout3, & FO:NV, even being one of the first to offer my mod within an installer for the games. After a point, I simply stopped in games like WoT because of the volume of complaints(about a 2:1 ratio for complaints to thank-yous, even though the complaints never involved any instability, or technical issues.). There is no way I would have as much patience as you guys do. Keep up the good work!

Edited January 18, 201412 yr by Monarchco

It is frustrating when things don't work. But I understand that 1.0 was also rebuilt from the ground up compared with previous versions. That compared with other things above, I think they did a great job keeping problems to a minimum. LCPD:FR seems to get more stable each time I play it.

The devs seemed to work hard and fixed up the worst of the problems for most folks (I mean, they got a hotfix out within like what? 2 weeks, maybe less? How many of the big commercial guys are that quick, if they even recognize it as a problem at all, unless it's an F2P MMO, and even then they take forever fixing other bugs irritating bugs.)

Just be patient,  hotfix will come out to fix your issues eventually if you're having issues. That or give it some time on trying to run it for a week or two, to GTA:IV, it seems like new mods are like new pairs of shoes that it takes a while for it to get comfortable running them for a certain amount of time. Also, I think some of the requirements to actually run the mod now require at least 64 bit Windows 7, like the MS .net framework. There isn't much to be fixed there in terms of LCPD:FR, as that is well outside their control and more to do with Microsoft themselves. So if you're running on 32 bit Windows XP, you'll have issues running the mod, if it even runs at all from my understanding.