hey guys. sorry to bug ya but i have a weird problem. for some reason today i tried playing and i had a crash when the game was starting up. i let the lcpdfr auto save thing kick in and it crashed immediately before it could find retrieved save. the farthest i have gotten tonight is to the loading screen then it blanks out. the really odd thing is that i have five back up copies at different stages just in case something like this happened. however, none of those copies will open either. they all crash.

 

the first copy i have is from december 5th. it contains only lcpdfr, els, and cars. the later copies of course have more items as i went along. the first three copies have no savefile/oldsession files so i know that it couldnt have been an lcpdfr issue. so i can't figure out what in the world could have happened to where all of these games wont work and how it suddenly happened overnight. does it seem like my gta iv installation has gone bad or been corrupted somehow?

 

i just wanted to get advice before i do something stupid and mess up bad. any advice at all would help. thanks :)

okay welp i couldnt provide much information because i wasnt really sure of how to find logs lol. so after teaching myself that I actually ended up having to re install everything. I was reading my logs and it just looked like there were a hundred errors. And no matter what copy i tried to use it was of no use. How it happened i have no idea. i hadn't altered any GTA IV files or anything. I played great for two hours and turned it off and turned it back on and nothing. very weird. i wanted to provide some information on what i see as a complete crash of the GTA IV game, but it didnt work out for me :/ either way its taken me some time to get it straight but i did it!!! i figured i would need tons of help but apparently the last two months i've learned more from ya than i thought plus im getting good at grave digging topics