'GTA IV has stopped responding' (During gameplay)

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

Hey, firstly I'm new to modding, so go easy on me, if I come across as a little slow at times.

 

Basically, my issue is this: I can launch the game, start LCPDFR, and play for anytime between 5-120 minutes without issues, however my game will just inexplicably crash without warning (no frame drop, no stutter, it literally just shuts down) and then show me the 'GTA IV has stopped responding' message. Now I know that it's a poorly optimised game, however surely I should be able to play for more than 5 minutes.

 

Here are my system stats:

GTA IV: 1.0.7.0 Steam Version, LCPD:FR 1.0d

Mods: Smooth ENB (Found here), Yard1's LSPD GTA V police pack, ELS V8

 

System: Windows 8.1 64bit

Asus M5A97 Evo 2.0 Motherboard

Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX750 ti GPU

16GB RAM

1.5TB HDD

250GB SSD (where GTA IV is installed)

 

My PC is pretty much brand new, about 10 days old, and I could run GTA IV + the mods listed above without any issues about 3 days ago, no lagging, stuttering, and only 1 crash in about 12 hours playing. However now my game seems to crash. I have tried running it as an admin, but then I get the SecRom error

 

The logs are here:

LCPDFR:

[iNFO - 12:08:53 PM] [Log] Started
[iNFO - 12:08:53 PM] [Main] Main: Initializing...
[iNFO - 12:08:53 PM] [Main] Main: LCPDFR Engine © 2011-2013 LMS
[iNFO - 12:08:53 PM] [Main] Main: DO NOT USE THIS WITHOUT PERMISSION. YOU MAY NOT SHARE, MODIFY OR DECOMPILE THIS FILE.
[iNFO - 12:08:53 PM] [PluginManager] Initialize: Loading custom plugins
[WARNING - 12:08:54 PM] [settings] ReadSettings: Invalid entry
[iNFO - 12:08:54 PM] [settings] ReadSettings: Suspect transporter POLICE
[iNFO - 12:08:54 PM] [settings] ReadSettings: Suspect transporter POLICE2
[iNFO - 12:08:54 PM] [settings] ReadSettings: Suspect transporter PSTOCKADE
[WARNING - 12:08:54 PM] [settings] ReadSettings: Invalid entry
[iNFO - 12:08:54 PM] [Plugin.Main] Changing language to en-US
[iNFO - 12:08:54 PM] [Main] Main: Initializing done
[iNFO - 12:08:54] [serverCommunication] InitializeConnection: Internet connection available
[iNFO - 12:08:56] [stats] CollectSystemInformation: Server stats updated
[iNFO - 12:08:56 PM] [Plugin.Main] Running LCPD First Response LCPDFR 1.0d 2011-2015 LMS (1.0.5486.32350) 1/8/2015 5:58:20 PM
[iNFO - 12:08:56 PM] [Plugin.Main] Copyright © 2010-2015, G17 Media, www.lcpdfr.com
[iNFO - 12:08:57] [serverCommunication] InitializeConnection: Public IP Address is: 86.8.11.61
[iNFO - 12:08:59] [serverCommunication] InitializeConnection: Connected to the LCPDFR server
[iNFO - 12:08:59 PM] [NetworkManager] NetworkManager: In network session: False Is host: False
[iNFO - 12:08:59] [Authentication] Authentication: Server available, using online authentication
[ERROR - 12:09:00] [Authentication] Authentication: Error 0x320
[ERROR - 12:09:00] [Authentication] Authentication: Authentication failed
[iNFO - 12:09:00] [Authentication] Authentication: Failed to authenticate
[iNFO - 12:09:36 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[iNFO - 12:10:06 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[iNFO - 12:10:36 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[iNFO - 12:11:06 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[WARNING - 12:11:22] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: JOLIET_ST
[WARNING - 12:11:26] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: ATTICA_AVE
[WARNING - 12:11:26] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: WINDMILL_ST
[iNFO - 12:11:36 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[WARNING - 12:11:55] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: GUANTANAMO_AVE
[WARNING - 12:11:55] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: SPIN_ST
[iNFO - 12:12:06 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[WARNING - 12:12:19] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: ATTICA_AVE
[iNFO - 12:12:36 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[WARNING - 12:12:47] [AudioDatabase] GetAudioFileForAction: No file found for: SAN_QUENTIN_AVE
[iNFO - 12:13:06 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[iNFO - 12:13:36 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
[iNFO - 12:14:06 PM] [script.Ambient] Saving game
 

 

Scripthook:

2015-02-12 12:08:52 - STARTING SCRIPTS...
2015-02-12 12:08:53 - INFO: Phone number checks are not available!
2015-02-12 12:08:53 -  ...successfully started script 'TrafficFlow.Taxi'!
2015-02-12 12:08:53 -  ...successfully started script 'LCPDFR_Loader.PublicScript'!
2015-02-12 12:08:53 -  ...successfully started script 'LCPDFR_Loader.Loader'!
 

Advancedhook:

 

Log started on: 12:7:40 2-12-2015
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[iNFO - 12:7:40] Gameversion - 1.0.7.0
[iNFO - 12:7:40] XLiveLess present - skipping xlive changes
[iNFO - 12:7:40] Improving ELS compatibility
[iNFO - 12:7:40] AdvancedHook 0.38 © 2010-2015 LMS - Initialized
[iNFO - 12:7:40] E-Mail: lms@lcpdfr.com
[iNFO - 12:7:40] Permission granted for LCPDFR & ELS only
[iNFO - 12:7:40] Thanks to listener, aru, #iv-modding and cp702
[iNFO - 12:7:40] Attaching exception handler...
[iNFO - 12:7:40] Exception handler attached
[iNFO - 12:7:40] Patching game functions...
[iNFO - 12:7:40] New instance created: ELS
[iNFO - 12:14:30] An exception occured
[iNFO - 12:14:30] Minidump saved
[iNFO - 12:14:31]
Process: 490000

Address: CDCDCDCD (Faulting module: C:WindowsSYSTEM32ntdll.dll loaded into process space at 77920000 - function offset without PE header is: 563BBDCD)

Code: C0000005

Registerdump - EAX: 447A0000 EBP: 1FCE24 EBX: 3F800000 ECX: 3F800000 EDI: 1FE0F0 EDX: CDCDCDCD EIP: CDCDCDCD ESI: 195028D0 ESP: 1FCA8C

[iNFO - 12:14:31] Launching LCPDFR Diagnostics Tool
[iNFO - 12:14:31] Launching LCPDFR error reporter
 

 

Log:

redirecting CreateDevice
redirecting CreateDevice
redirecting device->Reset
redirecting device->Reset
 

Commandline:

-norestrictions
-reflectionresolution 2160
-shadowresolution 2160
-forcehighqualitymirrors
-novblank
-availablevidmem 3.0
-nomemrestrict
 

 

Thank you

[Will 2,178]

The best way to avoid random crashes like this is to play with as few mods as possible (no ENB, no ELS, no car mods).

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

The best way to avoid random crashes like this is to play with as few mods as possible (no ENB, no ELS, no car mods).

 

But I could play with them without issue a few days ago. I installed another pack over the other police cars, and thats when things started to go wrong. So I reinstalled the pack I was using before and the troubles continued. Just seems stupid that now suddenly the game is really unstable when before it was fine, and my PC is good enough to run it with relative ease.

[Will 2,178]

That's pretty much GTA IV modding in a nutshell.

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

That's pretty much GTA IV modding in a nutshell.

 

I'm learning that fast haha. Looking back, I installed LCPDFR, then ELS. So I might try, reinstalling LCPDFR again, so that the advancedhook are the lcpdfr ones, not the ELS ones, and see how that goes. I forgot to backup my files from when I installed the ENB, so I appear to be stuck with it, after reinstalling it, they remained, and also doing the 'verify game cache' on Steam, didn't help out either =/

[Will 2,178]

ENBs add a bunch of files that won't be removed by simply replacing it with a backup or reinstalling. You have to uninstall the game, then delete the entire GTA IV directory, then reinstall.

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

ENBs add a bunch of files that won't be removed by simply replacing it with a backup or reinstalling. You have to uninstall the game, then delete the entire GTA IV directory, then reinstall.

 

I think that's what I did? I deleted all my local files through Steam, then redownloaded from steam, and reinstalled, if that's what you mean?

[Will 2,178]

"Delete local content" only uninstalls the game. The installer doesn't know about the ENB files so it leaves them. You need to go to the directory and actually delete the ENB stuff. The directory should be similar to this: C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonGrand Theft Auto IV

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

"Delete local content" only uninstalls the game. The installer doesn't know about the ENB files so it leaves them. You need to go to the directory and actually delete the ENB stuff. The directory should be similar to this: C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonGrand Theft Auto IV

 

Ah, ok! I'll give it a shot on Sunday when I'm home. Thankyou :)

[LtKeller 33]

ELS can be the cause of the problem, try this: https://www.lcpdfr.com/page/tutorials/index.action/_/script-data-file-modification-tutorials/solving-els-v80-crashes-r112

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

ELS can be the cause of the problem, try this: https://www.lcpdfr.com/page/tutorials/index.action/_/script-data-file-modification-tutorials/solving-els-v80-crashes-r112

 

I'll give that a proper read tommorrow. Thank you  for the link

[llXxNataliexXll 7]

Sorry for the double post. It appears that reinstalling LCPDFR so that the advanced/scripthooks supplied replaced the ELS ones worked :) Thankyou all