I have the steam version of GTA IV, no DLCs. I completed the story mode and installed LCPDFR .95 RC2 + ELS V6 + several vehicles + Traffic Flow V5 + GTA IV taxi bug fix, for patches 1.0.0.4-1.0.7.0 + some sound modifications. Within about 10-20 minutes of playing the mod, textures would stop showing, like I would be able to see through the floor. If that didn't happen then my game would crash with no error, just that GTA IV had stopped responding.
I tried to post in support, I read the post before posting and I followed the trouble shooting thing. I removed all the mods except LCPDFR and yes, there are no more problems as far as I can tell. But I see all these videos on youtube such as:
http://youtu.be/GMOlOvD3dWc
The video goes on for about an hour, I haven't watched all of it but I'll just assume it doesn't have any problems that I am having. The Troubleshooting thing before posting a support thread states that the mod doesn't support any third party mods yet all these videos on youtube have them and when I use them it causes my game to crash or not load textures and eventually crash. What is it that the people on youtube are doing to prevent the problems I have?
This video has every car modified and I only had police1 and police2 modified:
http://youtu.be/Tn2NSQyP_so
This sounds like a support thread but I did follow the trouble shooting thing and it did fix the problem so I'm posting this here.
My system specs are:
Windows 7 Ultimate
AMD Penom II Quad Core 3.2GHz
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti 2GB
8GB Ram