I know this is not the place to look for support regarding non-mod-related issues, but I feel somehow that these crashes I have been having are in fact mod related.

 

So basically, I have played GTA IV on this same rig a few years ago with no problems whatsoever, and now when I have decided to play LCPD:FR i am getting these annoying crashes every 5-10 minutes. It makes the game annoying to play  in SP, and impossible to play in MP because my friend is getting same problems and his game crashes randomly.

 

First time the crash occured was during my attempt to ask the homeless persons to evacuate the area. When i asked the second person to do so, the game crashed in the same moment I pressed the key. Today, I tried refusing dispatch missions and just tried to drive around and my game crashed after 10 minutes.

It seems kind of unlikely that me and my friend would be getting the same problem on two completely different rigs.

 

I am kind of worried that my log is having these lines. Does it mean the game cannot read the config file?

[WARNING - 9:28:23 AM] [SettingsFile] GetValue: Value not found: PreloadAllModels (Main)

My computer:

Intel Core i7 940 @ 2.93GHz

NVidia GeForce GTX 295

4 GB RAM

Windows 7

 

Mods I am using:

LCPD:FR v1.0c

ELS v8

Liberty City Police Department Pack - Charger, CVPI / Tahoe (ELS)

 

I tried not to overdo it with mods, but this is in my honest opinion the bare minimum.

Also, only the last 2 logs are entirely relevant inside the LCPDFR.log file

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I see you put a lot into your post, which is good and a lot better than 2 word posts saying "help my game crashes". Thanks.

 

Well adding mods is going to obviously cause some instability because of GTAIV's already present instability, but It shouldn't be crashing that often. However I used to crash that often, but that was the first release of 1.0

 

The error you displayed in the code is the game not reading the PreLoadAllModels line. Did you use the LCPDFR Game configuration to edit your lcpdfr.ini? It's located in your LCPDFR folder as an exe. Try checking the box "PreLoadAllModels", It can increase stability but may cause more texture loss problems.

 

I also think you have insufficient RAM. I'm no coder but when the game is spawning things I'm fairly certain it eats up memory fast, especially with GTA being prone to leaks. As well as your graphics card being outdated, this may be part of the problem. The game is already a bad port, so combine that with an old(ish) computer and it won't agree.

 

As for multiplayer, you and your friend MUST MUST MUST have the EXACT same scripts and car mods. Some exceptions apply to scripts (like the vdH towscript) but car mods must be the same and LCPDFR shouldn't have too many problems.

 

Try posting your scripthook.log as well as your ScriptHookDotNet log, but try setting PreLoadAllModels to true in your LCPDFR.ini (Use the exe). Lower some values like the amount of cops in pursuit(s), and change the callout frequency as spawning too many will probably eat up your computers resources.

 

Also, what settings are you playing on? I assume not too high but just to doublecheck.

 

Try those solutions and see if the problem persists. As for your car mods, how many cars did you mod with that pack? If you have almost every car modded, i can almost guarantee that's the issue. with the low-medium amount of RAM and the old GPU I'm sure something is car related crashes, If the other solution doesn't work try removing the carpack (Get a fresh vehicles.img, hopefully you backed it up, if not download one online that matches your game version)

 

Try unticking read only on your GTA directory as well as subdirectories (Common and pc, as well as common/data) in properties.

 

Hope I could help!

Edited December 2, 201411 yr by Sonny236