Hi all,

 

 My name is Lucas, and i'm new to the modding community. With the new update for GTAV Being pushed out, im tired of having to disable my internet connection, open RPH, and then when the game loads to restart my router. I was wondering, that if i let this update install, would it mess everything that i have (8 cars, EUP, skin control, ect) and make me reinstall every little damn thing over again?

There's easier ways. And yes, updates pretty much always break everything. Using a mods folder makes it a lot easier, because then you only have to replace things in update.rpf for the mostpart. 

Just put steam in offline mode and it'll be a lot easier. You can also make a backup of all your game files so you can just restore them after the update. 

make a copy before the update, update, and replace with the copy, problem solved, until you actually want to update that is...

 

Or simply use RPH to make a backup of the current version of the game.

You know, that's this thing that shows up when you run RPH for the first time and says /!\ THIS PART IS CRITICAL /!\

1 hour ago, PNWParksFan said:

There's easier ways. And yes, updates pretty much always break everything. Using a mods folder makes it a lot easier, because then you only have to replace things in update.rpf for the mostpart. 

Just put steam in offline mode and it'll be a lot easier. You can also make a backup of all your game files so you can just restore them after the update. 

That would work if i had GTA through steam, copy with my graphics card from newegg was through rockstar's shitty launcher

1 hour ago, AllenKennedy said:

make a copy before the update, update, and replace with the copy, problem solved, until you actually want to update that is...

 

Alright, thanks!

kind of want those new cars, though. since i use a mods folder, will it update through the mods folder? i messed up first mod and moved the update to mods completely, and it kept trying to reinstall EVERYTHING

42 minutes ago, Hystery said:

Or simply use RPH to make a backup of the current version of the game.

You know, that's this thing that shows up when you run RPH for the first time and says /!\ THIS PART IS CRITICAL /!\

Yeah but i dont know how to revert, haha.

Edited June 3, 20169 yr by Lfitzcon42

The way GTA updates works, it doesn't replace most existing files, it just adds new RPF files to the DLC folder, e.g. patchday10ng will probably come next or something like that. But, if you update the game it will overwrite any files that have been modified if they aren't in the mods folder. 

If you only ever change things in the mod folder, then the only thing you'll need to re-setup is anything in update.rpf. Everything in the dlc folders or x64e.rpf shouldn't need to be changed if you keep them in the mod folder. The stuff that goes in update.rpf is mostly meta files, so you will need to re-do your vehicles.meta file and possibly some other stuff if you've messed with things like visualsettings.dat or gameconfig.xml. 

31 minutes ago, PNWParksFan said:

The way GTA updates works, it doesn't replace most existing files, it just adds new RPF files to the DLC folder, e.g. patchday10ng will probably come next or something like that. But, if you update the game it will overwrite any files that have been modified if they aren't in the mods folder. 

If you only ever change things in the mod folder, then the only thing you'll need to re-setup is anything in update.rpf. Everything in the dlc folders or x64e.rpf shouldn't need to be changed if you keep them in the mod folder. The stuff that goes in update.rpf is mostly meta files, so you will need to re-do your vehicles.meta file and possibly some other stuff if you've messed with things like visualsettings.dat or gameconfig.xml. 

I really didnt see any difference with RadianceV, either one of the 2 settings compared to stock and i used the settings file that came with it, so im not worried about losing that. but. ive only messed with carvariations and vehicles.meta, and for 2 cars only so im okay with having to re-do those. i thought i had the concept down but now im just more confused. if i didnt touch update, and just copied that folder into my mods folder and used that, will it still break everything in the mods/update?

update: installed the update, but nothing was broken... everything works fine 

On 04/06/2016 at 0:08 AM, Lfitzcon42 said:

update: installed the update, but nothing was broken... everything works fine 

Wait... were you talking about Further Adventures in Finance and Felony update? Because it is coming out today... These are the major updates that break the mods.

Edited June 7, 20169 yr by DLM3