Hi I am new here and I got GTA 4 from the steam sale and I have a question.

I will be installing the trainer, ELS 7, LCPDFR 1.0, Los Angeles Emergency Services Vehicles Pack 2.2 all at once and would I have to play the first mission first before installing all of them?

Thanks!

No not necessarily, but I'd suggest you complete the first mission before doing so anyway. 

No you don't have to play it before installing all that stuff but I would recommend you do for a few reasons. If you don't play the first mission you'll have to do it every single time you want to play the game as it forces you to. So just play it and save it as soon as you can. Then give the game a few minutes to show you all the tips, like where your health is, about the phone, food, etc. and then save again so you won't have to watch or see those pop ups every time you start the game. After all that's done just put your phone in "silent" mode so the story stops and play away. Doing all this will only take you 10-15 minutes and will save you a ton of time in the long run.

Also when you install those mods, install them 1 at a time. Install one, launch th game and test it, install another one, test it, and on and on. It will take you longer but it'll be worth it because if you install everything at once and it crashes then you have no clue what mod is causing the problem. So you end up reinstalling everything individually anyway to figure out what's causing the issue. It just ends up beig easier to do it individually.

Before you even install one single mod be sure to run the game to make sure it works good. Also after you know the game works make a copy of the vanilla game directory, the entire GTAIV directory to a backup location. That way if something gets screwed up you can just delete the screwed up version and copy in the backup. It takes a little while to copy everything but it's still 10x faster than having to uninstall and reinstall the game because you messed it up and didn't make a backup. It didn't hurt to make another backup every couple of weeks or months (depending on how often you mod your game) that way you can just revert back to your last modded backup and you don't have to redo all your mods again. Believe me, it sucks to have to reinstall tons of mods again. Just a few tips from things I've learned over the years

Edited March 16, 201412 yr by NickieB

I have another problem. I installed them all at once except the vehicles and the lights have disappeared. 

Edited March 16, 201412 yr by N0WBIE

If you using the default GTA IV vehicles, its because they are non-els. As long as the LA Vehicles are els enable (iIm pretty sure) you'll be fine once they are in.

Yeah, if you have not installed the cars, and are using the default cars with ELS, they will flash like that. Because the Default cars are not ELS-enabled. If you plan on using ELS, only install cars that are ELS-enabled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTW 

Yeah, if you have not installed the cars, and are using the default cars with ELS, they will flash like that. Because the Default cars are not ELS-enabled. If you plan on using ELS, only install cars that are ELS-enabled.

BTW

Wow that's nice... I just wasted another 1 hour downloading another 13 gigs.

Wow that's nice... I just wasted another 1 hour downloading another 13 gigs.

Why is that?

 

 

EDIT: LOOL I'm lucky to get 13 GB downloaded in 24 hours.

Edited March 16, 201412 yr by CrossFire

Oh, yeah, that's another tip. Always make sure you have atleast 5 backups.

 

Well, I have 5 backups.

Make sure you have atleast 3 backups.

 

Okay, make sure you have atleast 1 backup that is fresh and you do not touch the files unless you are copying them to replace another.

Is there a way to not have alt p to spawn a car?

Is there a way to not have alt p to spawn a car?

Disable the keys in the trainer. Options-Disable Keys.

I have encountered a new problem. When I press alt+m it wont show the menu. ELS does work.

 

I have encountered a new problem. When I press alt+m it wont show the menu. ELS does work.

You did disable the keys for the trainer right? Because often the keybindings for the trainer or other mods like ELS will conflict with each other and cause it to not work. So if you've disabled the bindings in SNT already then check any other mods you've installed to make sure nothing else is mapped to that binding (ALT+M). I don't remember but you could take a look at the ELS.ini and see if you can assign something else to open the menu and see if that works.

You did disable the keys for the trainer right? Because often the keybindings for the trainer or other mods like ELS will conflict with each other and cause it to not work. So if you've disabled the bindings in SNT already then check any other mods you've installed to make sure nothing else is mapped to that binding (ALT+M). I don't remember but you could take a look at the ELS.ini and see if you can assign something else to open the menu and see if that works.

 

All I see in the ini are numbers. I have disabled the keys in trainer

Edited March 18, 201412 yr by N0WBIE

I think ELS V7 is Ctrl + M... It is for me at least.

I think ELS V7 is Ctrl + M... It is for me at least.

I think your right actually. It's suppose to be CTL+M not alt. I didn't even notice that, just assumed he was pressing the corect keys. Try CTL+M

I think your right actually. It's suppose to be CTL+M not alt. I didn't even notice that, just assumed he was pressing the corect keys. Try CTL+M

Still not working.

Well it's very strange that ELS works, like the lights and everything but yet you can't open the console menu. Have you tried searching the forums to see if others have had this problem?

Try pressing it a few times.

Well it's very strange that ELS works, like the lights and everything but yet you can't open the console menu. Have you tried searching the forums to see if others have had this problem?

Sorry for the double post, my internet had a little hiccup there

Edited March 18, 201412 yr by NickieB