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I'll try both of those out, thanks for the reply! :D

Quick question for you, Sgt. Kanyo. Would you happen to have time to whip up a proper handling line for Lt. Caine's police rancher from this pack?; There is no included handling and the default handling lines for both polpatriot and rancher are very sluggish.

Yup; this worked like a charm for me. The game would crash at about three or four seconds in; before I could make it out of the Broker safehouse. Reinstalling the game and placing my mods back in fixed the problem. Try putting in the default vehicles.img file before you go with a reinstall though; if that stops the crashing then you can narrow it down to modded cars at least. Also, be sure to visit DarthWound's thread. It can be quite helpful. ^^

That would be directly related to the vehicle not having a line in the handling.dat file, or having a line that doesn't quite match up well with the vehicle model. Note that the above info is for those that may still be encountering the problem. It's always a pain when you google search, find exactly what your problem is, but have no solutions actually appear in the thread. :D

Does the primary key work out of game?; could potentially be a hardware problem. Try a different keyboard if possible. Mods only work in multiplayer so long as the other players have the same ones installed.

Again, thanks to you both for going out of your way in helping others. I'll look into this. :D

The Steam version is excellent and much more convenient.

I can see where you're coming from; the analog controls to depress the gas and brake pedals certain amounts as well as in the steering are probably much more authentic than the digital "always on or always off" keyboard control.

Are you sure that the vehicles you're using are ELS compatible? Also, read through the instruction manual for V7 if you have not already; things are -much- different from V6 and it provides much more customizability.

Ahh, gotcha. I stick with my mouse and keyboard so that could be the discrepancy. Thanks for the help though; I appreciate it. You too, emptw1!

I do have one more question for you, however. What handling line are you using for the Rancher included in that pack? The default makes the vehicle much too difficult to maneuver and the default Rancher handling makes the vehicle too front-heavy, therefore also making it hard to control.

That advice turned out to be solid; see the edited portion of my post above. I was already using a few of Lt. Caine's default modded cars and it seems as if his Rancher has solved my problems. ^-^

Agreed on the .ide part. I did replace the standard polpatriot and with ELSV7 installed everything works perfectly fine. Go figure. I have only the police vehicles in my game modded; all are either DSF mid-poly cars or Lt. Caine's modded vanilla cars. I would assume that game resources were the problem had the game crashed in general, but it only seems to have problems when a modded polpatriot is spawned. I suppose I'll try out several different models in the slot and see how that goes. EDIT: It seems as if you were correct; certain vehicles just don't seem to work. Note that Lt. Caine's modded vanilla Rancher works fine and does not crash the game when selected; http://gtapolicemods.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2226

Do elaborate; generally, games are not "messed up" especially when legally purchased.

I want to say cj24's 2013 Taurus(es) as it is the only 2013 Taurus I am familiar with; http://www.gta-modding-chest.com/database/220-2013-ford-police-interceptor-liberty-city-police-department-els7/index.html

I've replaced it with the original game's setup on multiple occasions and that doesn't seem to rectify anything. Any suggestions? I do currently use ELSV7, but was having problems with the polpatriot slot ever since I first modded - that was when V6 was out. And I do not currently have anything saved in a safehouse parking spot. If it is the .ide file, would you care to post your section for polpatriot? This is what mine looks like; I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one incurring this problem.

Has anyone experienced crashing with any non-default vehicle placed in the polpatriot slot? It seems as if every single modded car I put in there crashes the game; either immediately or within a few minutes of gameplay. I've tried out multiple things in that slot, including Lt. Caine's landstalker and landstalker ESU truck, Corleone's Chevrolet Savanna LCPD edition, among others. Still get crashes. Note that I'm using the regular version of GTA IV with proper patching. I've replaced the vehicles.ide file with the default and that doesn't seem to correct the problem, not to mention that all my other police slots are modded without a problem.