Just wondering what types of modding causes y'all the most trouble. GTA IV and EFLC has been out for a few years now, and there are literally thousands of mods available, and I know we've all had our fair share of glitches, crashes, and freezes.

 

So what's the general opinion on the most troublesome type of mod?

 

For me, it's been Peds. Nothing crashes my game more often than all the different ped mods available (I like to try them all) . The models themselves as well as the pedvariations.dat and peds.ide can cause quite alot of problems.

 

A close second I would say is scripting mods, which can sometimes be completely unpredictable.

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For me, it's usually scripts crashing my game. Including ASI mods.
If I look in the log files, it's mostly the same: "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object" - No matter which script.

Sometimes the scripts crash and I have to reload them or they take my game along and it crashes too.

 

After turning some things off (like world events in LCPD:FR and PoliceHelper), the number of crashes decreased.

 

Maybe there are some vehicles, peds or weapons that cause the crashes too but I'm sure that most of the crashes are caused by the scripts.

 

I used many ENBs for a long time and they didn't crash my game, I didn't try other graphics mods like ICE.

Edited May 31, 201411 yr by Erase

I use ped mods and they rarely cause any crashes. I'd say what causes crashes are general GTA IV failures. 

For me, cars. Every time i mod more then 4 cars my game gets very fond of cabs. 

For me, cars. Every time i mod more then 4 cars my game gets very fond of cabs.

That's a known problem of GTA IV and can be fixed with mods like >Traffic Flow - But there are also many others, i.e. Chikamru Real Traffic.

Works like a charm for me!

You can also avoid this by creating a multiplayer lobby with the maximal amount of private slots if you don't want to use Traffic Flow or any other traffic mod.

Edited May 31, 201411 yr by Erase

A majority of issues arise from IV only being 32 bit resulting in it being given much less of your PC's resources. After that, cars.

I mainly experience crashing when I try to add not replace handling lines. Additionally I do know the process.

 

Cheers.

Cars. Cars are the culprits causing my game to crash. I'm limited to certain cars that are at least 2mb size on .WFT and less than 1mb on .WTD. sometime when a car is about 2mb on WTD I remove the extra police liveries and replace dirt texture with a black texture. It seems to drop the file down to below 1mb. Its a shame because there are so many beautiful cars out there and I cant use them because of the amount of detail put in to them. I'm stuck with either vanilla IV/V cars and cars by GFXLE and Lt.Caine. The two moddelers that have decent game friendly cars IMO.

 

The rest of the crashes are just GTA IV going full retard at random times.

Random "GTA IV has stopped working" crashes are what my problem is. Could happen 5 minutes into spawning in game or could happen an hour or so later. 

The only time i crash is if the game can't handle what's going on.. which happens to pretty much everyone.

 

all the mods i use don't make a big impact (although they do cause crashes), the main crash is GTA 4 being it's horrible ported self.