First of all I've been heavily wondering whether I should post it here or in the LCPDFR support thread - I AM NOT SURE WHETHER THE CRASH RELATES TO LCPDFR! If mods find this topic doesn't belong here I hope they'll move it...

 

As the title says I broke my GTA. Here's the story:

 

I used the latest version of LCPDFR with ALM, TrafficFlow, some non-ELS cars and two API mods. (and xlive.dll, that's important). Everything worked flawless. For some reason I got corrupted with lust  and decided to install an ELS car. ELS requires dsound.dll (says so in read.me), so I copied all ELS files in GTA folder and replaced xlive with dsound. 

 

And the hell broke loose. The game crashed right after loading, LCPDFR Crash Reporter said that's not LCPDFR crash. All right. So I deinstalled ELS and got xlive back. Things didn't change at all. I uninstalled LCPDFR and it was a bit better, at least no crash on start. 

 

So I completely deleted the GTA folder content and used my clear backup (only with previous version of LCPDFR installed, which I deleted.) Once again I decided to install ELS, and this time it went fine, though my game became unstable, that's the payback for using ELS cars. I decided to delete ELS and get my xlive back. 

 

Guess what? Now the game crashes on start. Again. If LCPDFR uninstalled it works, but is highly unstable.

 

I have no damn idea how could an installation of ELS fuck my game up so heavily that even backup doesn't help. LCPDFR DiagTool says that all right except logfile (logfile checked see report for more details), however upon crash it says "that's not a LCPDFR crash". 

 

Just in case I attach my logfile and a screen of GTA IV root folder. 

 

Game copy is legal, OS is suitable, NetFramework and all mandatory software is present, the game and the mod were running flawlessly before I installed ELS. Any ideas?

 

Edited February 11, 201511 yr by Hastings

There are several possible problems:

1.) Advancedhook.dll is invalid; Try changing with the Advancedhook with both what is included with LCPD:FR and ELS.

2.) Advancedhookinit.asi is incompatible, just delete and install LCPD:FR taser's manually.

3.) ELS is not working correctly with GTA IV, see https://www.lcpdfr.com/page/tutorials/index.action/_/script-data-file-modification-tutorials/solving-els-v80-crashes-r112 for more details.