please if any one can point me in the right direction as to how i can get lcpdfr installed properly in todays world I'd greatly appreciated. 

 

these are the facts 

 

I have the steam version of the game. (am i screwed already ?)

 

i already attemtped the 1.0.7.0. patch and now it doesn't let me change the graphics. 

as well as mess up social club. 

 

i did exactly what the post said to do rename paul.dll to paul.original.dll 

and 

paul.dll after the revert to paul.old.dll

 

i've also watched a fellow on youtube that made a really good video but it isn't working for me. 

 

if someone can at least point me in the right direction to get this mod up and running for me i'd greatly appreciate it. 

 

I am just tired of V, I honestly never liked this game, but i got with the times now "call me old fashion."

hehehe... you my friend are in for a fun ride...

steam version eh? me too. let's see if I can walk you through this.

 

On steam, right click on grand theft auto 4 in your library, then on "Properties" which should be at the very bottom, now on the new window that just opened up click on "Set launch options..." and copy and paste the following into the box that shows up: 

 -norestrictions -nomemrestrict -availablevidmem 4096 -reservedApp 0 -refreshrate 30 -noprecache -frameLimit 1 -windowed -reserve 0

What this is going to do for you is let you change the graphics settings, and more importantly actually play the game with less crashes and it will help you avoid the dreaded disappearing textures bug.

 

Next, this is almost as important as the previous step. you are going to download this thing called xliveless. it will completely disable social club. if you were planning to play online, sorry. but the chances of you actually getting the game to run ok with it are almost none. here's the link to xliveless, just drag and drop the files into your GTAIV root folder which is the one that contains GTAIV.exe https://www.moddb.com/games/grand-theft-auto-iv/downloads/xliveless-0999b7

 

So ya already did the paul.old.dll thing. hopefully those 2 steps above fixes whatever you said went wrong with that, if it didn't then just tell me.

 

Now... start up gta 4 and make sure everything is working A-ok. nevermind, gta 4 will never work A-ok, just make sure that it's playable. [:

 

If it's not then explain to me in great detail what's not working.

 

If it is working then go download lcpdfr 1.1. install it using it's installer which should install itself. (basically just double click the installer and it will walk you through the installation.

 

Once again after that's done start up the game again and make sure that everything works, if it does then press "ALT+P" you should get a message that lcpdfr has started up or something like that.

 

if that works then congratulations, you just installed everything correctly and can now play lcpdfr until your little peasant eyes melt out of their sockets from your PC screen.

 

Now, their is ABSOLUTLY NO WAY that you got this on the first try, so just message me back with whatever goes wrong and I'll get back to you as soon as I can when I feel like it.

 

5 minutes ago, mr911matt said:

 

wow man, I really appreciate you taking your time to explain to me that. I will do everything to a T. I'm usually good at modding and figuring it out but gta iv whooped me and here I am . get back to you shortly, I'm in the middle of going another route with another person, but if that does not work out this will be what i do next. so far so good with that guy. 

 

again I am truly thankful you took your time to help me out!!! 

and thanks my guy, i got it up and running!! im actually happy i did the project because it made me appreciate gta v lspdfr so much. I didnt give LSPDFR the credit it deserved.