Hi everyone! My story is slightly long because I've spent a lot of trial and error and searching these forums. Please bear with me because I really hope you can help.

 

I had a crappy computer but I wanted GTA IV. I used to watch LCPDFR videos rather religiously while at work because.... I hated my job. I bought a copy of GTA IV in 2012 and crossed my fingers that it would work on my computer.

 

It didn't. So, I waited two years before I could afford a brand new high tech cooly-cool Alienware, which I received on Friday. GTA IV was my first installation.

 

It works perfectly, so beautiful, I've killed like 200 people already. But after about eight straight hours of senseless violence, I decided earlier this evening that it was time to install LCPDFR and try to combat thugs like me. That was about five hours ago, still no launch. Here's how it went.

 

I went to this website, found the download for LCPDFR 1.0b. Looks like pure awesome in a zip file. Automatic downloader, bam bam, it's in, I picked the dsounds.dll because I didn't know what GFWL was (now that I know, I want the xliveless one), we moved on, everything's good. We go to configure and.... Diagnostics Tool has crashed. I dig around in the program files and try to run it manually. Crashed. I run it as administrator. YAY NEW WINDOW! Click configure! Crashed. Manual download! Choose your own destination! Uninstall reinstall uninstall reinstall.... crash crash crash crash, kind of like when I go the wrong way down the freeway cause I'm still a noob and I haven't mastered the WASD yet.

 

"Oooooohhhhhkay then," I say, "Let's try an older version". I watched an installation tutorial for LCPDFR 9.5 and saw that it had no configuration thingy to crash on me. Cool, let's go for that.

 

Made it all the way through installating, again with dsounds.dll. Looking good all the way through, load up the game.... CRASH:

 

Application Error
Exception EFCreateError in module DSOUND.dll at 000116C5. Cannot create file "C:Program Files (x86)2K GamesGrand Theft Auto IVasilog.txt". Access is denied.

 

Access is denied. Sounds like a "Run as Admin" should fix it. Indeed, that's what one forum suggested. But I bought the game from Gamestop Downloads and I have to run it through the Gamestop App, which just has a shiny play button and no .exe on my computer to right click. So, now I have no GTA IV, let alone no LCPDFR. So, plan B, I try kennie's steps from this thread: http://www.lcpdfr.co...or-with-lcpdfr/   (I also tried to follow Iconography's link but it says I'm not allowed to view, which I thought was weird.)

 

Delete the scripts. Done. Reinstall using xliveless. Done. Boot up the game.......... YAY! The game works! I'm dismayed to find that my saves are gone and I have to start all over again, but it's a small price to pay for LCPDFR. Except no LCPDFR. left+alt+p, no fun ensued. So, I try to download the patch kennie linked to. Took an hour to download the zip. Clickity-click, let her rip... Crash.

 

So, it's nearing midnight and I have to work early tomorrow. That's where I'm leaving it for now. I'm sure it's possible to get around all these roadblocks, I'm just not sure how. Like I said, the PC is brand new, Alienware, has no problem running the game, and it has the C++ and the other prerequisites for LCPDFR. There's no conceivable reason in my mind why the computer keeps getting mad at me, but it does. So I'm turning to the experts, youse guys.

 

Obviously, I'd like to get the LCPDFR 1.0 working. It looks so pretty. If we can solve that diagnostic problem, that would be optimal. But if not, I'm fine with 9.5 and then continuing to look to solve the problem with 1.0. I'm not the techiest person out there but I gave it the old college try, and I haven't succeeded. Perhaps I would if I had time to keep at it. I'm just hoping someone has the answers!

 

Thanks for reading the tale of my woes and I really appreciate any help that's possible. It's probably fixable in two seconds and I'm overlooking something totally obvious and someone is going to just link me over to some thread I should have been able to find on my own, but I digress. Also, I do not see AdvancedHook.log (though AdvancedHook.dll exists), AdvancedHookInit.log, or LCPDFR.log. That doesn't mean they don't exist, necessarily, that means I don't see them. Thanks in advance, Anthony.

 

Hi everyone! My story is slightly long because I've spent a lot of trial and error and searching these forums. Please bear with me because I really hope you can help.

 

TL;DR It's broken lol

 

Hi!

 

Firstly, thank you for the very in depth report, I actually took great pleasure in reading the entire thing. But for the purposes of the quote in this very post, I snipped it out. No point on quoting the whole damn thing when I'm the first reply.

 

Right well, you seemed to try several things, but I want to get you running on 1.0b. It's the most recent version, and quite frankly the best and apparently most stable release according to sources.

 

Ok let's really throw back to the beginning, an issue I know but we can cover all grounds from here.

 

1) Uninstall GTA IV, when the uninstall is completed delete all of the files and folders which remain inside the gta iv directory.

2) Reinstall GTA IV, when it is complete copy EVERYTHING into a new folder somewhere, hell even zip it if you want. Name it  GTA IV BACKUP You'll thank me later for this.

 

3) Run the game. Yep, do it. I'm 100% certain it will run but let's just be sure.

 

4) It runs! Great, download lcpdfr automatic installer 1.0b and extract it from it's zip file.

5) run the installer, be careful to read the filepath it want's to put the install in. make sure the end of the file path reads GTAIV >

and not GTAIV > LCPD First Response >

 

6) Now it's installed, but will it work? Go to the diagnostics tool, get it to check your installation.

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IF the diag tool crashes, run the game and load it up. That will hopefully either run fine, or produce a crash with a log file and a lovely error report for me to read.

Thanks awesomely for the reply. To finish out the awesomeness of my weekend, I'm not ready to uninstall today, and I have an awesome computer with crappy internet so uninstall/reinstall will take a really long time unless I go on campus and steal borrow their WiFi, which is how I downloaded it in the first place. (At home the download would take 16 hours, on campus it was done in less than 5.) A trip for the coming week.

 

However, it seems that we'll just be doing everything over again. That's okay, but I'm not sure it will solve the issue, because my primary issue with 1.0b is that the diagnostics tool is randomly crashing. I'm guessing one of those logfiles that doesn't exist would explain that problem. My guess is that one of my uninstall/reinstalls deleted it. Silly me should have made a backup of my files anyway, I usually do, I was just in too much of a rush to kill people play the game.

 

What log is it, exactly, that I need to have in order to discover why the diagnostics tool is crashing and burning?

 

The uninstall/reinstall process will likely take place Tuesday/Wednesdayish, maaaaybbbbeeeee Monday, so maybe there's a few things to check beforehand? Thank you hilariously for your reply, I am very much looking forward to the awesomeness that is LCPDFR.

 

Ok. Off to take out my frustrations on innocent civilians.

Thanks awesomely for the reply. To finish out the awesomeness of my weekend, I'm not ready to uninstall today, and I have an awesome computer with crappy internet so uninstall/reinstall will take a really long time unless I go on campus and steal borrow their WiFi, which is how I downloaded it in the first place. (At home the download would take 16 hours, on campus it was done in less than 5.) A trip for the coming week.

 

However, it seems that we'll just be doing everything over again. That's okay, but I'm not sure it will solve the issue, because my primary issue with 1.0b is that the diagnostics tool is randomly crashing. I'm guessing one of those logfiles that doesn't exist would explain that problem. My guess is that one of my uninstall/reinstalls deleted it. Silly me should have made a backup of my files anyway, I usually do, I was just in too much of a rush to kill people play the game.

 

What log is it, exactly, that I need to have in order to discover why the diagnostics tool is crashing and burning?

 

The uninstall/reinstall process will likely take place Tuesday/Wednesdayish, maaaaybbbbeeeee Monday, so maybe there's a few things to check beforehand? Thank you hilariously for your reply, I am very much looking forward to the awesomeness that is LCPDFR.

 

Ok. Off to take out my frustrations on innocent civilians.

You're welcome, it is what I'm here for....

 

I understand the whole internet issue, definitely do this when you have better internet. But also definitely back a clean backup so you can do it at any time then regardless of internet. (yes ok HDD rpm is a factor then but nt so much as bandwidth)

 

The log files you should have are as follows:

 

asilog.txt

advancedhook.log

advancedhookinit.log

lcpdfr.log

 

The diagnostics tool will read these and output them to a single log file (which I cannot type the name of because it is not a universal name)

 

A good idea would be to run GTA IV when you have installed LCPDFR (if the diagnostics tool is crashing) so that GTA IV can attempt to run it all, at least then you will either have some log files or you will have all of them with a nice error report for me to digest and spit out a solution to :)

 

In terms of things to check, go through this guide I wrote and make sure you have all the files etc. It's quite helpful for fixing common problems

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YAY! It works!

 

I did what you said, got to step 6 and it still crashed. Then as I was trolling the Program Files I discovered LaunchGTA.exe, which was a backdoor so that I didn't have to launch using the GameStop app. Right click, 'Run as Administrator", and it worked. Every time I close the game I receive a "FATAL ERROR: PLEASE REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER". But that's negligible because I'm closing it on my terms. SO, thanks for your help!

 

Now I need to find a good tutorial. I figured out a lot on my own but I can't figure out how to use the taser. :P

YAY! It works!

 

I did what you said, got to step 6 and it still crashed. Then as I was trolling the Program Files I discovered LaunchGTA.exe, which was a backdoor so that I didn't have to launch using the GameStop app. Right click, 'Run as Administrator", and it worked. Every time I close the game I receive a "FATAL ERROR: PLEASE REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER". But that's negligible because I'm closing it on my terms. SO, thanks for your help!

 

Now I need to find a good tutorial. I figured out a lot on my own but I can't figure out how to use the taser. :P

I'm glad it works, ignore that error it happens when you mod GTA IV. It means nothing.

 

The taser you have to press T to equip it to your holster, and then T again to use it. (once you have it equipped to your holster T will act as a toggle between taser and no taser.