Had GTA IV, LCPDFR .95, numerous mods, etc installed on my machine (which has ample specs and ran at nice FPS with few crashes) for over a year.
Decided to do a fresh reinstall and configure it for LCPDFR 1.0. It's turned into a mess and I must have gone completely dumb or am completely forgetting something I did the first time around.
Uninstalled GTA IV, Rockstar Games Social Club, LCPDFR .95 ... looked for Rockstar Games folders in my program files folder and found none, just in case there might be some leftover that needs to be manually deleted.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit (had GTA IV installed in the Program Files x86 folder last time and thought about installing in the regular Program Files folder but at this point I just want to get it working).
To reinstall I did the following:
1) I put the disc in and perform the regular install without incident.
2) Run the 1.0.7.0 title update
Tried to open (Run As Admin) the game and got a lovely WS10 error.
3) Remembered xliveless and extracted the xlive,dll file into my Grand Theft Auto folder
Tried to open again (Run as Admin) and this time no WS10 error, but a small black window opens for 3 seconds, closes, disc spins in the pc, then nothing happens. No error, no nothing.
What did I miss here? I'm not even up to setting up LCPDFR 1.0 yet.
Appreciate your help in advance.