Hi, This problem started when I couldn't get past the loading screens.

I press play and the loading music and those pictures come up, but then it just gets black and it returns to desktop like nothing happened. No error messages at all.

Then I tried to re-install it. Twice. Now it just shows a blank cmd screen then it disappears.

It always used to work before.

Help?

EDIT: Now it gives me an SMPA30 error code.

EDIT2: And now it gives me the blank cmd screen once again.

Solved: I solved it, it was another folder called Program where apparently some of the game files were.

I moved over those files to the game folder and it worked!

Edited July 17, 201213 yr by Someone22

Did you save whilst on duty? Your game saves won't have been deleted when you re-installed so my first idea would be to delete those and go from there.

No I never save at all.

But ok i'll do it.

EDIT: I did that, and it still just shows me an empty cmd screen.

can your computer even run gtaiv?

Did you even patch the game?

can your computer even run gtaiv?

Yeah it can run GTA.

Did you even patch the game?

Patch 1.0.7.0

SMPA30?

YOUTUBE TIME!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64AvDN2Ohs

SMPA30?

YOUTUBE TIME!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64AvDN2Ohs

Now it just shows a blank cmd screen when I start it.

uhhh what? God i hate how bitchy GTA is...try this....uninstall GTAIV....remove any an all mods pertaining to gtaiv form the gtaiv folder that might remain, go to your documents folder, remove the rockstargames folder in there, reinstall, try a stock play (play with out mods to see if that will even get it working)

uhhh what? God i hate how bitchy GTA is...try this....uninstall GTAIV....remove any an all mods pertaining to gtaiv form the gtaiv folder that might remain, go to your documents folder, remove the rockstargames folder in there, reinstall, try a stock play (play with out mods to see if that will even get it working)

Tried that too... three times.

then you might have to call rockstar to get the game working as a stock game and work from there, i honestly don't see a reason why that is happening....

Do you have the required windows programs to run it?

Eg: .net framework 4 and c++2010(x86)?

Yep.

Wow, your GTA is acting really stubborn. But I don't get how that can be happening to you. Where did you get the game? It could be fake or maybe have some sort of corrupted file in it.

Edited July 16, 201213 yr by GTAIVpoliceman

Wow, your GTA is acting really stubborn. But I don't get how that can be happening to you. Where did you get the game? It could be fake or maybe have some sort of corrupted file in it.

I bought it from GameStop a couple of weeks ago, it worked back then.

But 3 days ago I installed a couple of car mods, after that I couldn't get past the loading screens.

So I re-installed it and now we are here.

I've also noticed now that after I reinstalled the game, it creates a folder in the main C: drive named Program which contains some of the gta files.

common

config

pc

876bd1d9393712ac.bin

binkw32.dll

DFA.dll

gta4browser.exe

gta4encoder.exe

GTAIV.exe

GTAIV.exe.cat

GTAIV.exe.cfg

GTAIV.exe.cdf

lang.ini

LiveTokenHelper.dll

logo-paul.bmp

Paul.dll

As you can see, some of the gta iv files are missing, but all of them is in the folder that I actually installed GTA in.

Edited July 17, 201213 yr by Someone22