At first, ELS 8 worked fine w/o any problem once so ever. Recently my game would crash every time. So i uninstall the entire game (after deleting everything in the file). Then took it back to the basic needs. I just downloaded lcpdfr and els 8. I had to leave for a while so i turned off the PC (after i tested it and it worked just fine). I come back load up gta iv and when it say "loading- cousin bellic" or "starting new game" it would freeze there. So out of the mods before this i narrowed it down to either lcpdfr or els. Then i figure out it is els 8. So i decided just to go to els 7......same problem. I looked through the forums googled even youtubed it for crying out loud. No real help. And one of the forums said something about deleting the ability for the ai on SP and MP from using els. Same issue. And another saying just don't add the asi file. So i did that and i was able to get into the actual game. However, lcpdfr would encounter it error and on top of that when i went to the els enabled car it still did not work. Can someone please help! And also if the els thing does not work can someone tell if there is a way to make non-els cars work to the point where you can turn on the lights but not the sirens! Like a downgrade of els. Thanks

LCPDFR has a feature where you can have the lights without the sirens. Press * on the numpad after activating the siren normally (with G) or press / on the numpad to go through 3 "stages" of lights only mode.

 

As for the error with LCPDFR, you need to use the AdvancedHook.dll from LCPDFR and not ELS. Just download the LCPDFR manual installation and copy the file into your main GTA IV directory. (Please keep future LCPDFR support in the LCPDFR Support section, though).

 

With ELS crashing the game, uninstall ELS, then install LCPDFR with the manual installation. This will give you all of the updated dependencies. If the game works, install ELS by only copying the ELS folder, ELS.asi, and ELS.ini (and optionally the common folder) from the ELS installation. Do not copy anything other than those files/folders.