Sonny236

In the next release of LCPDFR (Now I know this is kind of obvious) They should add more callouts. I mean you have basic ones (Too little ammount) Mugging, Car chases, Shootouts/Shots fired, Domestic abuse.....Simple and eventually gets boring. They should do sometihng like...Combine the callouts that are in "Bravehearts Policiing Script" (One of my many favirote scripts/mods) With the orignial LCPDFR callouts. Just needs some more then what the current version has. This was probably suggested already but oh well.

When playing multiplayer, You and your friends MUST all have the same mods, If not that can cause One. The loading loop and Two. Frequent crashing (Like SMPA60) If anyone else is getting this then...I'm going to guess its R* or something with Social Club/Windows LIVE.

Okay....I think I'll look through the tutorial a few times, Download zmoddler and test this out myself (Same as done in the tutorial) Then i can get the hang of Zmoddler. Also in the tutorial given, He loads the stuff and makes a change to the car.....I don't see the change he made, Honestly i don't see what he really did to the car in the tut XD Thanks for the suggestions

Is your scripthook installed correctly? scripthookdotnet.asi goes in scripts The others go in your main GTA directory, Ensure you have them installed in the right spot then try running GTA. Run GTA as administrator (If you arent already). Also, In your main GTA directory paste in the contents of: vdH.errors.log (In your main GTA directory) And let me have a look. If none of those solutions work or i dont know, Contact abraxas about it. But paste in that vdH log files contents and let me see first, I know what most of the errors mean/Are when the scripts stop working EDIT: In addition to running GTA as admin, Go to your (well directory right before GTA depending if you have the disc/Steam version of GTA) Right click on your GTA folder, And un-check "read only" and then it should ask you to do the same for sub-folders say yes. If its on read only sometimes it can't execute or edit the scripts while trying to run them.

Hm. Personally....I never used the indicator script, Seems unnecessary for me but are you installing your script hook correctly? ScriptHookDotNet.asi goes in scripts, The other scripthook files go in your main directory. If its installed correctly, It could be a bug for you or in general, Not entirely sure. Contact the owner of the script or report a bug if it consists

Roads in the air? Lol thats more of a glitch, not really what im talking about, I'm talking about lag (FPS drops every few minutes)

Thats fine, So in that case DO you have custom cars? (Have you replaced cars with custom ones)? With ELS? If so. Theres your problem. Download more low-poly custom cars. And if you still don't, I'll take a look at your specs and see.

Thanks for the link, I'll read through it and see if it helps me enough :D EDIT 1: I right now did a quick read through it, Tommorow when im more concentrated I'll read the whole entire thing carefully through, Maybe even trying it myself. But i think i need a more "Detailed" tutorial.....This just tells you how to import a model/texture and edit it a little bit, I want to know how to make new ones from stratch right off a stock gta police car and then edit it and add custom lightbars, ELS, Custom look/texture etc. But if it i'm not up to it I think i'll just find somebody to do it for me, If i can get a good picture of a police car i'd like to see in game :)

Well. You say you like els compared to non...Yet you say you don't mod your cars and don't know how. That confuses me. Anyways, If you don't mod cars then you shouldn't be getting SMPA60....Make sure you back up your orignial GTA files, Otherwise you have mods? If you have any mods/scripts installed how many do you have? Too many i suppose can cause SMPA60...But its usually only Car mods. Otherwise Re-install gta IV. All i can think of EDIT: Whats your specs? This wouldn't cause SMPA60 but if you have a low end computer and your settings are high, It can cause crashes. List your specs and what your graphic settings are currently set to.

So I was thinking i'd ask. (Please move this if its in the wrong section, I found this was the best place) How do you model/Make Custom cars (police cars). Now i know a little bit about technical stuff i'm not a newbie, Just with modeling and stuff. Can somebody give good/Detailed explication on what you do to make custom models or cars? What programs to use....What you do...I'm pretty sure if you make one, You make a texture, Or is it a model or what. Just need someone to explain to me what you do and how you make custom cars. OR if it's too hard for me/Too hard to explain, Anyone who takes requests to make custom cars? I only want to know so i can make some maybe upload them and make low-poly ones/Request them, Or make them to my design of what i like for cars.

Yeah, Just take off all of your mods, Then check. If its fixed, Re-install each one of your mods but every mod you install, Check to see if the problem persists. Then you will know which mod is causing it :P

SMPA60 is caused by two things. Saving a car at a safehouse, Then modding it. (Corrupts your save too) And by CAR MODS in general. If you use ELS/Modded cars, That's the cause. Try to find modded cars with a low poly count (Or as close looking to the orignial as possible) Or don't mod them if it causes frequent crashes. Also if you use ELS make sure in the .ini to configure stuff (Make sure ELS isnt enabled on NON els cars. And also to reduce crashing smpa60 or not turn off AI using ELS lights.) If you don't use modded cars at all, Then i have no clue why you are getting SMPA60. But SMPA60 is caused by car mods in general so like I said, Try to find some low poly cars that won't make your game crash How do i know this? Recent experience, Trust me....SMPA60 pisses me the hell off when it happens.

I just recently fixed my SMPA60 crashing problem, Now that I don't crash anymore (Or too often)...Well you know i'd run into another problem ._. I'm using a somewhat crap laptop for gta but it does the job, I use gamebooster and run GTA but i get this what i call "Weird" or "once in a while" Lag. For about 5 minutes, Game will run very nice and smooth. Then it starts to lag (Pretty much every 5-10 minutes my FPS goes from very high to very low and I get bad lag) What can be causing this? Any way to fix it? I'd rather have my game run smoothly all the time or more often instead of getting 5 minutes of smooth, 10 or 15 minutes of lag then another 5 minutes of smooth and high FPS.

Thank you all for the suggestions. It seems that I don't get SMPA60 anymore, Ever since i recently put the original vehicles.img file back, And installed a few low poly cars. I only modded noose truck and most of the police cars, The only problem now is lag. I might end up turning off AI ELS lights, It would look stupid but If it reduces crashing and lag... one of the cars is the normal police cruiser with an ELS lightbar, So thats low poly and a few others are pretty low. They look good, I'm satisfied and i have 2 more backups of vehicles.img and one of EFLC. I can mark this as solved since i don't get SMPA60 anymore :D The only crashing i now get is gtaiv.exe has stopped working after about...Err.. An hour...Thats enough for me :D. Or if, You know one of my scripts goes stupid and I have to re load my savegame, That crashes me. But no more SMPA60 and im satisfied with my cars Thanks

Searched and found both. None of them have ever uploaded anything, I only found one link to one car on a topic. I also recently put lower poly cars that i seem to have found on gta and now i don't get SMPA60 as much/ Anymore :D Only a once in a while normal crash (GtaIV.exe has stopped working) but thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep looking i guess unless someone else replies on this otherwise i'll mark it as solved EDIT: Nevermind, I wasn't looking hard enough. I found their files/Content and more online. Thanks :P

Just copy and paste your product key into where it says. If it doesn't work, Play in Offline mode when you get to the launcher, If you can. xlive.dll is a big problem for most of us, Usually we DONT need it (Like me, It gives me WS10). So just try that. Also, Your specs/RAM don't matter this is a signing in problem, BUt they might later when you try to actually run the game :) make sure your specs meet the requirements, Anything else i don't really know (Since i use the steam version). Make sure you patch your game and have GFWL (Games for windows live update) installed

I searched for some police mods/cars online, But most of them are probably too high poly and I'm still getting SMPA60 after 10 minutes (usually after calling in backup/Too many police cars in one spot) I don't want to use the original cars since they look bad + ELS is awesome Does anybody have any links to any low poly police cars that i can download? I'm looking for about 3-4 of them to replace the ones i have. I won't download unmarked cars and most of them i like with a lightbar (But i can tolerate some). Any links to a few of them with low poly count would be appreciated, As i'm too lazy to download 40 different cars and check them in OpenIV for their poly count

That will do. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :P Both answers work, This can be closed. Thanks

I know some people said that if you have custom/modded cars with a very or double high poly count it can crash your game more often with SMPA60, Gta has stopped working or script problems. If i download a custom or modded car how do i check its polygon count? So i can at least see how many their are and if its way too many i won't download it. Also, Whats a similar polygon count to the ORIGINAL cars. I don't really know whats considered a lot and normal amount.

Well i see what you mean by gta isnt meant to be modded, It wasnt......Long periods of time isn't really luck however since i see TONS of youtubers recording their gameplay with LCPDFR, and EVERY one of their cars modded. Every single police car ambulance nooose all of it and no crashes until like an hour or two. Idk. Hope someone can atleast give me an EXPLANATION of smpa60 (Not the savegame part i get that one) Just would like to play longer than 10-15 minutes just gonna wait for more views/replies, As of right now (8:30AM) I've been up all night so think imma go to sleep and hope when i get up that theres more replies on this c: Any help/Explanations would be appreciated. (Guessing not a lot of people on yet) just gonna wait for more views/replies, As of right now (8:30AM) I've been up all night so think imma go to sleep and hope when i get up that theres more replies on this c: Any help/Explanations would be appreciated. (Guessing not a lot of people on yet)

My comp has 6 GB of RAM (5.59 usable)...I have some stuff in commandline if that matters -noprecache -novsync -novblank -viewdistance 0 -renderquality 0 -detailquality -frameLimit 0 -texturequality 0 -availablevidmem 1.1 -percentvidmem 100 I have mostly (Script wise) LCPDFR, VdH stuff (Most of them) and Trafficflow. Car mods is the only other major thing (Most of my police cars are modded like i listed)

Use something called "GTA 4 Vehicle Mod Installer" It's an auto installer for stuff with GTA.....Make sure you imported the wtd and wft files correctly with SparkIV. I only use SparkIV for custom sirens and models for other scripts. Also, Since its the model problem it could be TOO high of detail. Try turning your settings down in your GTA Graphics settings, Just tamper with it a bit. And yes make sure you save after importing the file. Then close SparkIV, Dont just replace it and close it right away

Answer above^ Anyways, You can get something called gamebooster to boost your FPS. Defrag your directory and turn your settings down depending on your computer, Especially if your on a laptop....Trust me i am...I have to play on all low and i still lag. See gta is a fussy/pain in the ass game. It needs a VERY good computer to run medium or anything higher. So just try those suggestions and boost your FPS so it doesn't disconnect you from MP Edit: Also a quickfix for low FPS is go to your main directory for GTA. Place a text file and name it commandline.txt inside it place the following (With the dashes) -noprecache -novsync -novblank -viewdistance 0 -renderquality 0 -detailquality -frameLimit 0 -texturequality 0 -availablevidmem 1.1 (Has to do with memory, Only use if you have low memory/Memory issues with GTA) -percentvidmem 100 (Has to do with memory, Only use if you have low memory/Memory issues with GTA) It will turn some of your settings down but run the game a ton faster, Especailly for multiplayer. If you don't want them on low replace the values of 0 with 1 and that should put it on medium. In your graphics settings the "Shadow" settings. Turn them off or put them as low as possible, Thats just how good shadows look but it REALLY does lag your game a lot and is not nesseacary unless you have a very high detailed computer and you can handle all that, Which acording to GTA...you can't :P

Well, Whenever a crash says "Please restart (Computer, Game ETC)" most likley thats NOT gonna fix it....Seems you are out of memory. Whats your RAM?: Try Un-installing the mod that caused this, If it stops happening then its the mod. You could have too many. Make a notepad/txt file in your gta directory called commandline.txt and in it place -availablevidmem 1.1 -percentvidmem 100 Pretty sure that tries to dish out any extra memory from your RAM. (availableblevidmem you can change the value up to 2.0 depending on how much you want to take out extra of your memory to run on this game) I suggest about 1,1 - 1.7 at highest or if you want about 1.9 or 2.0... If none of that works and un-installing the mod seems to work then just keep it uninstalled....Or re-install GTA. But try the other solutions first^

Be more specific...Are you getting any script errors when you try to tow a car? Do you have VdH Policehelper? (You should install that if you don't have it :P It supports all those mods from abraxas VdH and so).....Did you install it correctly :As Michael V. said, Put it in your scripts folder:.....Uhh if none of those work can you check your GTAIV Directory for a VdH Logfile (Should be in main directory) or a log file for scripts? If so post it.....Otherwise contact the content uploader (Abraxas).