Greetings everyone. I am very new to this website and after doing a quick search for 'Windows7', 'Windows7Home', 'Windows7Crash' and other variants, I found no topics relating to this issue. If it turns out there are in fact topics regarding this issue already, and I, for some reason, missed them, could you please direct me to them and I apologise for posting this.

I have been thinking to myself that being a police officer on GTA IV would be brilliant, and when I finally discovered this Mod a week ago, I was really excited and couldn't wait to try it out. I immediatley installed GTA IV and downloaded LCPDFR. I am running Windows 7 Home edition, Service Pack 1 and GTA IV installed perfectly without any problems, so I assumed I'd be able to use this mod. However, I couldn't install the mod right away as I was missing the .NET Framework and Games for Windows Live. After installing the 2 missing items LCPDFR installed successfully, which lead me to believe it'd work and I'd be able to play. But, when I tried to run GTA IV to go on duty I got an error that GTA IV had stopped running when it hadn't even started. This happened a few times before I finally got angry and uninstalled everything. Now, I know I ideally should've made a note of what error I was experiencing, but it was along the lines of it not being able to create a folder and access was denied. I was really disappointed as I was really excited and looking forward to finally being a police officer. Are there any known issues with Windows 7? Are there any known methods to resolve them? If so, can you please let me know as I am still very excited about this Mod.

You need to run properties in the Launch file. It needs to run as XP Service Pack 3. I just figured that out.

All you needed to do was right click and run as administrator, and it would have been fixed.

Edited June 26, 201213 yr by Tom H

That is true as well Tom ;)

I run a win 7 comp...no issues

Thank you very much for the replies guys. They are greatly appreciated. I'm going to re-install everything and I'll let you know how it goes.

Edit: Thanks guys. Everything you suggested worked fine. The only other issue I am having is that I have no idea what to do with the vehicle models I have downloaded. I have no idea how to get them into the game for use. Any tips? :)

Edited June 27, 201213 yr by AimForTheBrain

Thank you very much for the replies guys. They are greatly appreciated. I'm going to re-install everything and I'll let you know how it goes.

Edit: Thanks guys. Everything you suggested worked fine. The only other issue I am having is that I have no idea what to do with the vehicle models I have downloaded. I have no idea how to get them into the game for use. Any tips? :)

You will need SparkIV and if you want ELS download it from Tom H's signature, although, ELS V5 is more stable, when modding make sure you backup EVERYTHING that your going to mod, if your going to mod a chicken wing, BACK-IT-UP!

You will need SparkIV and if you want ELS download it from Tom H's signature, although, ELS V5 is more stable, when modding make sure you backup EVERYTHING that your going to mod, if your going to mod a chicken wing, BACK-IT-UP!

Thank you. I downloaded and tried to use SparkIV but I was unable to do anything with it. All of the buttons were greyed out. I'm a noob when it comes to this sort of thing. I don't know what to back up, I don't know where to put things and I don't know where things are. :( Does SparkIV need to be installed, or does it just run when you use the application?

Edit: The link for ELS V6 in Tom H's signature works, but the zip folder it downloads is empty.

Edited June 27, 201213 yr by AimForTheBrain

Just checked it, it's fine. Delete the file you download and try it again.

Thank you very much for the replies guys. They are greatly appreciated. I'm going to re-install everything and I'll let you know how it goes.

Edit: Thanks guys. Everything you suggested worked fine. The only other issue I am having is that I have no idea what to do with the vehicle models I have downloaded. I have no idea how to get them into the game for use. Any tips? :)

Heres some help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2v9rG5AQI0&feature=plcp

Just checked it, it's fine. Delete the file you download and try it again.

I'm confused as to why it isn't working then. I tried to download it again but am still being told that the folder is empty. When trying to extract the contents, I get the following error message:

'Cannot Complete the Compressed (zipped) Folders Extraction Wizard

The compressed (zipped) folder is empty.

Before you can extract files, you must copy files to this compressed (zipped) folder.'

And when I try to open it without extracting, I get this: 'The Compressed (zipped) folder is invalid.'

Edit: I probably should've mentioned this earlier but my copy of GTA IV is a store bought copy. I didn't get it through Steam. SparkIV still doesn't work for me either. It wouldn't let me do anything when I started it so I tried to run it as an Administrator but that failed to solve the problem as well. I kept getting the 'SparkIV has stopped working' error message before it had even loaded.

Edited June 27, 201213 yr by AimForTheBrain

I'm confused as to why it isn't working then. I tried to download it again but am still being told that the folder is empty. When trying to extract the contents, I get the following error message:

'Cannot Complete the Compressed (zipped) Folders Extraction Wizard

The compressed (zipped) folder is empty.

Before you can extract files, you must copy files to this compressed (zipped) folder.'

And when I try to open it without extracting, I get this: 'The Compressed (zipped) folder is invalid.'

I dont have a problem either

Did you delete it and re-download?

Yes sir, I did.

Try this link: http://gtapolicemods.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=196

Thank you everyone for the help so far. My career as a member of Liberty City's Finest is almost complete. I literally couldn't of done it without you. :D

That said, there is some bad news. I am still having trouble downloading, installing and running ELS v6. I am only getting one file, and it appears in the form of a Notepad document, which I have no idea how to change back to its proper state, as the methods I have tried are not working. Something tells me I am meant to get more than one file, as is the case with vehicle downloads. I've downloaded a few new cars but the flashing lights on them aren't working as they are all ELS enabled and that's the only mod that I have left to install. Can anyone please help me get this resolved? It's really frustrating. :(

[if I could show you exactly what it was that downloads for me, I would. I could maybe email it to you?] (If that breaks or violates any rules I apologise; I just really want to get this up and running.)

Edited June 28, 201213 yr by AimForTheBrain

Thank you everyone for the help so far. My career as a member of Liberty City's Finest is almost complete. I literally couldn't of done it without you. :D

That said, there is some bad news. I am still having trouble downloading, installing and running ELS v6. I am only getting one file, and it appears in the form of a Notepad document, which I have no idea how to change back to its proper state, as the methods I have tried are not working. Something tells me I am meant to get more than one file, as is the case with vehicle downloads. I've downloaded a few new cars but the flashing lights on them aren't working as they are all ELS enabled and that's the only mod that I have left to install. Can anyone please help me get this resolved? It's really frustrating. :(

[if I could show you exactly what it was that downloads for me, I would. I could maybe email it to you?] (If that breaks or violates any rules I apologise; I just really want to get this up and running.)

Most anything that I have seen has said to maybe install ELS v5 because it is stable and shouldn't crash, but there is a link in Tom's sig that has the ELS v6 download for it, and I'm pretty sure that's where I got mine from and it works pretty well.

I just thought I should let you know that the faults I was experiencing with ELS v6 were entirely my own. Despite knowing already, for some reason it never even occured to me that .rar files needed winRAR before they could be properly used. I only realised my embarrassing error after watching a video I found on YouTube. I then downloaded and installed winRAR and was able to make use of the ELS file I downloaded previously. Many thanks to everyone who helped; all of my issues are resolved and I am a very happy gamer! It couldn't of been done without you. Seriously, thank you very, very much. :D

Edited June 28, 201213 yr by AimForTheBrain

No problem man, enjoy!

Since my issues are resolved I no longer need this topic. Can a moderator or admin please close it for me? Thank you.

Thanks again for the help, everyone.