Hey guys, new here. I have been playing LCPDFR for quite a while, problem free, but not without crashes which I am starting to find out is normal from time to time lol. Anyway, I have been playing without issues. Today, I changed my CPU cooler to one that is much more efficient then the cheapy one that was previously in there. I didnt like my CPU temps and didnt feel like cleaning the caked up dust out of the 7 year old heat sink. So I ordered an Artic Cooler Pro 7 I believe it was called, and installed that and it was all pretty straight forward. I did have to remove my graphics card and mother board to get rid of the old mounting studs for the old fan assembly. I put everything back together and go to play LCPDFR and initially everything was good except for unusually long loading times. Last night I noticed longer than usual loading times as well. (Last night I actually transplanted the internals of this computer to another case before this incident). The CPU temps were MUCH lower under load which I was expecting and was happy to see. So I as I was playing I noticed that suddenly the roads were just smooth and unrendered looking. After that, my cruiser would get stuck in it and I would have to wait for the textures to load. Sometimes now buildings will just disappear and the loading times will get SUPER long. I dont know whats going on as I havent done anything to the game. Only thing ive done is physically touching the hardware. I have EyeCandy ENB running along with a host of other mods. Too many to list. So with my specs I have been playing at the highest settings with no real drop in FPS. Occassionally I would get a drop here and there but no big deal. I changed the CPU cooling assembly thinking the computer would overall perform better not worse! Under load im seeing 67 degrees C and before the upgrade I was seeing 86 degrees. Any idea what could be up? Thanks guys, looking forward to being an active member on here!

Here are my specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66 GHz

8GB of DDR3-1333

nVidia GeForce GTX 590 1.5 GB

WD Raptor hard drive 10000 RPM

Windows 10

 

 

 

i think this would be the case of your CPU & GPU usage. plus if you have alot of vehicle modifications installed that will also start texture popping.

Your thread has been moved to the GTA IV Support Requests forum, as it is not an LCPDFR support request.

I have your family of CPU, (I have a Q8200) and that would be under near full load, adding EyeCandy, no chance, thats a very demanding ENB.

Thanks for the responses guys. While my specs may be lower end, up until last night it was running fine with eye candy and all that. I ran the LCPDFR checker and it said that I suddenly had 2 ASI loaders. I found that I had both dsound and xlive so I removed dsound and the game ran better for a few minutes then it started to be weird again. Another thing I have noticed is that suddenly, the game thinks my video card has 3GB of ram when a few days ago it said the true 1.5GB. Maybe it is related to that?

EyeCandy comes with a command line that makes the game think that.

EyeCandy comes with a command line that makes the game think that.

Ok interesting. When the game crashes after loosing so many textures this error comes up. Also I am noticing that no cars are spawning. Normally, alot of AI cars spawn and now none of them are at all. I removed traffic flow same result.

Here are some more examples. My computer runs COD advanced warfare at highest settings no problem so im really starting to think that these problems are specific to GTA IV and not like I messed something up last night.

And here is some other text from diagnostics. Sorry for triple posting. Cant figure out how to edit like I can on other forums.

 

[INFO - 13:22:22] Gameversion - 1.0.7.0
[INFO - 13:22:22] XLiveLess present - skipping xlive changes
[INFO - 13:22:22] Improving ELS compatibility
[INFO - 13:22:22] AdvancedHook 0.38 (C) 2010-2015 LMS - Initialized
[INFO - 13:22:22] E-Mail: lms@lcpdfr.com
[INFO - 13:22:22] Permission granted for LCPDFR & ELS only
[INFO - 13:22:22] Thanks to listener, aru, #iv-modding and cp702
[INFO - 13:22:22] Attaching exception handler...
[INFO - 13:22:22] Exception handler attached
[INFO - 13:22:22] Patching game functions...
[INFO - 13:22:22] New instance created: ELS
[INFO - 13:26:37] An exception occured
[INFO - 13:26:37] Minidump saved
[INFO - 13:26:37] 
Process: 720000 

Address: 5040403 (Faulting module: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto IV\GTAIV\d3d9.dll loaded into process space at 4290000 - function offset without PE header is: DAF403)

Code: C0000005

Registerdump - EAX: 5040403 EBP: 647BFBF4 EBX: 0 ECX: 699E920 EDI: 1 EDX: 14A3BAC EIP: 5040403 ESI: 56 ESP: 647BFB18

Try removing EyeCandy.

I actually replaced my GTAIV folder with the stock with only lcpdfr and ELS installed in it and no other mods that I backed up before doing anything else. Problems still persist with no ENB.

Update:

I put in my other hard drive with Windows 7 on it and LCPDFR. This one works with no problems at all. So this leads me to believe that somehow something broke in Windows 10. No idea how or why.