GTA IV crash during main loading screen when ELS V8 is installed

Whitechocalate587 · February 25, 2015

I appoligize if this is in the wrong place. I'll attempt to be as clear as a can. I have downloaded and installed gta iv on my pc. I'm running windows 8.1. During the install proccess I downloaded all necessary files to run the game. The game runs fine. After that I installed lcpdfr. I chose the auto install using dsound.dill. I was able to play lcpdfr with no issues. I then decided to replace police cars in the game with els v8 capabilities. I ran the game and saw my cars just fine. I hadn't installed ELS just yet. I finally installed els v8 and that's when the game crashes on the first and main loading screen before gameplay. I then removed all els files and the game ran fine. I re-installed els and they game crahed at the same exact spot as mentioned before. Please assist. I have attempted to search for this solution and can't find exactly what I'm looking for. If the game only crashes when els is installed then I must be doing something wrong. I install els by copying all the install sub folders from the els folder to my gta iv folder.

PS: Thanks for the support in advance :)

Edited February 25, 2015 by Whitechocalate587

LtKeller · February 28, 2015

Try this: https://www.lcpdfr.com/page/tutorials/index.action/_/script-data-file-modification-tutorials/troubleshooting-crashes-caused-by-els-r112

If that does not work, please post all .log files and system specifications.

In addition, make sure you have tried these solutions to common errors:

    Make sure you aren't using a crack
    Update GTA IV to 1.0.7.0 (the latest version of the game, or 1.1.2.0 for EFLC) - This sometimes fixes a wide variety of issues
    Make sure that you run the game as an administrator.
    Make sure that your GTA IV root folder (and every subdirectory) is not set to "read-only"
    Ensure that ScriptHook.dll, ScriptHookDotNet.asi and Dsound.dll OR Xlive.dll are in the GTA IV ROOT folder
    Ensure that there is a folder titled 'LCPDFR' in the ROOT GTA IV folder.
    Check that all the above files exist, if they do not, reinstall LCPDFR with the MANUAL installation.
    Ensure that you are using up to date versions of every LCPDFR dependency and LCPDFR itself.
    Install these: .Net Framework 4.5, Microsoft Visual C++ Redist 2012

Whitechocalate587 · March 2, 2015

Try this: https://www.lcpdfr.com/page/tutorials/index.action/_/script-data-file-modification-tutorials/troubleshooting-crashes-caused-by-els-r112

If that does not work, please post all .log files and system specifications.

In addition, make sure you have tried these solutions to common errors:

    Make sure you aren't using a crack
    Update GTA IV to 1.0.7.0 (the latest version of the game, or 1.1.2.0 for EFLC) - This sometimes fixes a wide variety of issues
    Make sure that you run the game as an administrator.
    Make sure that your GTA IV root folder (and every subdirectory) is not set to "read-only"
    Ensure that ScriptHook.dll, ScriptHookDotNet.asi and Dsound.dll OR Xlive.dll are in the GTA IV ROOT folder
    Ensure that there is a folder titled 'LCPDFR' in the ROOT GTA IV folder.
    Check that all the above files exist, if they do not, reinstall LCPDFR with the MANUAL installation.
    Ensure that you are using up to date versions of every LCPDFR dependency and LCPDFR itself.
    Install these: .Net Framework 4.5, Microsoft Visual C++ Redist 2012

Thank you for the link as it has a few extra things I have not attempted. Will do tonight and advise. Thanks :) Funny thing is I installed ELS V7 the same way as V8 and V7 works with no isssues. I would just keep v7 if it wern't for that annoying door rebuilding thing. Thanks for the help!