Alright, I apologize if this has been asked before but I'm at my wits end with this and after hours of searching, reinstalling, and trying each mod I'm installing one by one I've finally found the cause but can't find a solution.
Long story short, my game worked great until yesterday. I was playing fine, mods and all, and then yesterday something went wrong. I go to launch my game and get the standard RGSC window asking me to log in. I click play, and it closes. I can see the loading icons coming up on my cursor and my disks spinning up, but then nothing. No game, no sounds, no windows, not even an error message. Looking at Task Manager shows that GTAIV.exe is running, but it's not doing anything on my PC.
I reinstalled. Tried again. Same issue. Repeated this about 4 times. Now I'm on my fifth clean install and everything works fine- until I put dsound.dll in my directory. As soon as this file is there I get the above issue. I've tried YAASIL and the other one, I've tried the one that comes with a bunch of my mods, I've even tried the one that comes with LCPDFR. Everything runs great when my mods are installed except with dsound.
ASILog doesnt give me any errors, it just says
"Hooking dsound proc named "DirectSoundCaptureCreate8"
"DirectSoundCaptureCreate8" hooked, address 0x6CCCD371
I'm seriously running out of ideas and it's driving me insane. I'm trying to install LCPDFR, DAS, ELS, VDHPolice Helper, and the SNT. (trying to play multiplayer so xliveless isn't an option.)
Like I said, everything worked fine until yesterday and ever since I haven't been able to launch my game as long as dsound.dll is present.
Anyone have any ideas?
(Yes, I'm running as admin and yes I'm running 1.0.7.0)
I'm running:
Windows 7 64-bit,
Intel i7 Processor
GTX 560Ti
16gb of ram
I highly doubt it's my system specs causing an issue so if anyone knows.. I would appreciate it.
Thanks!