On ‎12‎/‎1‎/‎2016 at 2:04 PM, LegitSoulja said:

1.0.7.0 & 1.1.2.0 Script Hook (Patch 7)

 

Hello guys, I will be giving you a tutorial on how to get GTA IV (PC) working with mods after patch. This is a downgrade tutorial in which will take you back below the version you came from.

Rockstar released an update for PC GTA IV regarding about a fix for their social club launcher (Due to people not being able to log in) which is now fixed.

Please follow this tutorial to help you get gta working with mods, and the ability to play online (Spoofing)

Step 1:
Do a fresh installation of GTA IV. Make sure all modded content is removed from the game. Once the installation has finished, run the game once via steam, (In which will install the requirements needed for the game to run). Start the game, and sign into the social club launcher. When you get to the title screen click "Live" or press the "Home" key to open "GFWL". Sign into your xbox live account. Your account will begin downloading, and you might be asked to update GFWL. Do that update, and when done, exit the game which will finish the update preparation. Exit anyways if it doesn't update after you signed in. If you have a pirated version of GTA IV, you can manually update the game yourself. Update to GTAIV (to include Episodes from Liberty City) login servers – Rockstar Support

 

Note: You might have to link your GFWL account to social club in order to play online.

Step 2:
Navigate to your steam, and or game directory of Grand Theft Auto. Create a backup of "paul.dll" and make sure you keep it safe out of the game source folder.

Step 3: Downloading (Patch 7)
EFLC > https://www.mediafire.com/?0ra54rarpi4ahp9 (Rockstar removed this link so I uploaded it)

GTA Original > https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200145406--May-28-2010-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-Patch-7-Title-Update-v-1-0-7-0-English-1-0-6-1-Russian-1-0-5-2-Japanese-
 

Download the patch, and extract the contents into a folder, called (Update), just to stay neat. Also create another folder called (Extracted). We will use both folders in this tutorial. Make sure that you do not create these folders in the game source directory, but outside of it.

Step 4: 
I've figured that it would be better to NOT use the installer, but manually getting the files, and overwriting them. You can do this with ease with an application called lessmsi A tool to view and extract the contents of an msi file - lessmsi. Open lessmsi-gui.exe. You will see a file bar at the top next to a button. Click the button, then navigate to the "Update" folder you created in which you extracted the contents of for Patch 7. Once done, make sure you click the "Select All" button, and extract the contents to a folder. (Not the game source folder).

Step 5: 
After you extracted the content from the TitleUpdate.msi file using lessmsi, move or copy the extracted content to the game source directory. Overwrite/replace all files if asked.

Step 6: 
Put back "paul.dll" that I told you to keep a backup of. Start the game normally with steam, or LaunchGTA.exe (Recommended)

Rockstar might remove the old update download (They did), but hopefully ScriptHook will be updated by Alexander. In that case, You would not have to follow this guide, but until then this is the only way to play with mods. 

When ScriptHook releases just verify integrity with steam, which will update you back to the current release.

And thats it . Add my gfwl live account (UnRatedAction). I will be playing ALOT mainly lcpdfr if you are interested in joining up with a police clan with me.

Other steam accounts(Str8Geeked(blazinon420), MIGOS(legitsoulja))

I can't get step 4 to work

Edited February 7, 20179 yr by Don Phillione
Update

59 minutes ago, Don Phillione said:

I can't get step 4 to work

 

Updated with more clarity. Good luck 

On 1/20/2017 at 4:17 AM, LegitSoulja said:

 

I've had one person report about this issue, and it looks common for low end PC's especially laptops. Make sure that you do this on a clean GTA IV installation, meaning make sure that all the content, and the game folder is deleted. 

 

Also, I have not tested this, nor the patch above with original gta/lost and damned, only EFLC. This post was originally for EFLC, but I've provided documentation for both hoping that it'll be the same, which I don't think there's no difference.

 

I'll do some research. In the mean time, you can try a commandline for example and see if that'll fix your memory issues. Also, can you provide your computer specs? Thanks.

I preformed the downgrade and, had a simular issue. as it turns out, after preforming this step , http://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/topic/65921-new-fixing-those-bugs-improving-iv-performance/ I found out that in order to fix that issue, I had to pump up the resolution. [In my case, it was all the way because, I have a Nvidia GTX 860M running at 2560x 1440.]

Finally I added in the commandline.txt the following notifications

Spoiler

-norestriction
-nomemrestrict
-availablevidmem "1.1"
-percentvidmem "100"

Edit: added code in a spoiler

Edited March 8, 20179 yr by TRDOffroad03
forgot spoiler

This post is absolutely confusing....I have played LCPDFR for a long time. Started again in the start of 2017 and it just completely wont work. The game wont even launch. If i follow these steps will it work? All the mods, everything. Im not concerned with multiplayer, only single player.

This actually worked. I can finally play the game again. Thanks :D

Guys! I did the downgrade and now i can't play online! It says " Unable to join game session"
There's a way to play online without updating?

On 6/15/2017 at 10:48 PM, GabrielLCGTA4 said:

Guys! I did the downgrade and now i can't play online! It says " Unable to join game session"
There's a way to play online without updating?

 

Unfortunately, I think the new client can only connect to official servers, however you can create a private session, and invite friends.

On 4/2/2017 at 4:12 PM, us.marshal said:

This post is absolutely confusing....I have played LCPDFR for a long time. Started again in the start of 2017 and it just completely wont work. The game wont even launch. If i follow these steps will it work? All the mods, everything. Im not concerned with multiplayer, only single player.

 

Yes, following the steps will lead you to guarentee if you do it correctly.

 

All you need to do is keep a backup of paul.dll, apply the old patch from the old patch update, put back Paul.dll, then launch the game via (Steam).

 

ONLY run via steam if you haven't before. I recommend running the game via steam before downgrading. Run the game until you can move your character and exit out and proceed downgrading. This will fix license issues.

 

if you don't care for online (private sessions), there's a mod for that, however it's something that you shouldnt worry about, unless it effects lcpdfr in a way, but as said the game must be activated first. I am unsure about pirates games.

Edited July 2, 20178 yr by LegitSoulja

This didnt work, just update the damn scripthook