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Sounds like you didn't downgrade correctly. Downgrading is outside the scope of this support board.

Status Updates
LSPDFR for Enhanced
We're very excited to announce that LSPDFR Enhanced, after months of development and testing, is now entering the next phase of the development process and is now available to our Insiders. We are deeply grateful to everyone in our staff team and closed testing community for their feedback and support that have brought us to this point.
 
The current build is largely stable, though a handful of bugs remain and we are not yet feature complete with Legacy. Development is advancing quickly, and each new revision brings us closer to a fully polished release.
 
Several community members have asked whether the Legacy edition will continue to receive attention. Both RAGEPluginHook and LSPDFR have been engineered to accommodate the Legacy and Enhanced branches side‑by‑side. With most of the heavy lifting complete, our goal is to roll out updates to both editions in parallel.
 
As soon as we’ve smoothed out the last few wrinkles and made sure everything runs flawlessly, we can’t wait to roll out LSPDFR Enhanced to everyone.
 
The new LCPDFR.com
Work on the redesigned LCPDFR.com is progressing steadily. The site and its companion, RDR2Mods.com, run on the same underlying codebase.
An early version of the community upgrade is already live on RDR2Mods.com, allowing us to gather real‑world feedback, refine new concepts, and further stabilize the platform before bringing the enhancements to LCPDFR.com.
 
 
We thank you all for your patience and continued enthusiasm, and hope to share even more with you soon.

Quick summary of my take on the 3 lighting systems for GTA V. (ELS, ELS Hybrid, DLS). I posted this on my Discord a few months ago and people seem to understand the difference between the 3 lighting systems used for LSPDFR (I do not play FiveM so I have no knowledge with those) so they have a better understanding on how and what the different types of lighting are used for gaming. From the San Andreas days of Emergency Lighting Mod (ELM) to IV with ELS to V with ELS, to ELS Hybrid to DLS, I have seen and used it all. Recently, I have done a convert of my game and development work to DLS from ELS. I enjoy ELS, but I enjoy DLS more as I can be more creative with patterns and lighting. So let's break down and give a short, sweet, simple run down of what you see people creating now. Lastly, don't try and take credit for this list, it's sad I have to say that but please credit where it's due if you were to use this list.


Emergency Lighting System (ELS)
Pros
Simplicity (Very new user friendly)
Config lighting stages easily / change patterns
Largest vehicle pool due to age
Cons
Limited on lighting
"Floaters" if want to use lights on moving vehicle parts (Doors, Trunk, Compartment Doors)
Limited pattern creations
No further development
12 Extras only. (Realistically, 10 is what most devs use)

Emergency Lighting System Hybrid (ELS + Non ELS)
Pros
Custom lighting config / patterns
Large variety of extras can be used (TA, Flood, Cruise)
Easily adaptable to ELS controls
32 sirens + 12 extras can be used to create
Cons
Stage 3 lighting only
Cannot change lighting patterns
Limited lighting controls
No further development (Due to it being ELS controlled)

Dynamic Lighting System (DLS)
Pros
ELS on crack.
Large variety of what lights can do (Stages, TA, Alley, Cruise, Brake Override, Patterns, Sync System, etc)
Vehicles become advanced with lighting controls (Multiple vehicles can run off 1 XML)
Cons
Lengthy XML creation / edits (Not new user friendly unlike ELS)
Compatible with ELS but must disable extra patch in the dls.ini to work
Potential crashing issues when using both ELS and DLS
Majority of LSPDFR users use ELS
Restricted to 32 sirens only
AI vehicles can ONLY use police audio hash to enable sirens.
Very slow development / updates

I know I have missed stuff or maybe a few things were updated since I created this back in April 2026 but still holds general true and ideal for people to understand. Please feel free to post any questions / comments / concerns as I am willing to be assist the best I can with this topic.

If this is in the wrong section, apologizes!

Happy modding folks!

Status Updates
LSPDFR for Enhanced
We're very excited to announce that LSPDFR Enhanced, after months of development and testing, is now entering the next phase of the development process and is now available to our Insiders. We are deeply grateful to everyone in our staff team and closed testing community for their feedback and support that have brought us to this point.
 
The current build is largely stable, though a handful of bugs remain and we are not yet feature complete with Legacy. Development is advancing quickly, and each new revision brings us closer to a fully polished release.
 
Several community members have asked whether the Legacy edition will continue to receive attention. Both RAGEPluginHook and LSPDFR have been engineered to accommodate the Legacy and Enhanced branches side‑by‑side. With most of the heavy lifting complete, our goal is to roll out updates to both editions in parallel.
 
As soon as we’ve smoothed out the last few wrinkles and made sure everything runs flawlessly, we can’t wait to roll out LSPDFR Enhanced to everyone.
 
The new LCPDFR.com
Work on the redesigned LCPDFR.com is progressing steadily. The site and its companion, RDR2Mods.com, run on the same underlying codebase.
An early version of the community upgrade is already live on RDR2Mods.com, allowing us to gather real‑world feedback, refine new concepts, and further stabilize the platform before bringing the enhancements to LCPDFR.com.
 
 
We thank you all for your patience and continued enthusiasm, and hope to share even more with you soon.

I’m genuinely a little surprised the base price isn’t $100 and that Rockstar wasn’t the company to lead the industry there.

Inflation, wages, R&D and general operating costs, even things like electricity, have all risen sharply in recent years. Even major studios backed by Microsoft and Sony are struggling with the cost of developing modern games.

From a consumer stand point it sucks and I'm likely to buy games less, but it is what it is.

Hey! Fantastic to hear about your project.

LCPDFR as mentioned by Gan Ceann, is already open source, and a great deal of engineering effort to make it run on Complete Edition has been made by us; https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta4mods/g17media/26726-compatibility-patch-for-gta-iv-complete-edition/
Our compatibility patch suite already fixes Scripthook .NET, patches aru's C++ scripthook and fixed AdvancedHook. The legacy edition that ships with LCPDFR to this day, supports Complete Edition.

Any further work is always appreciated, and we look forward to reviewing any pull requests or patches you make against LCPDFR.

No, the mod isn't shit, your ability to install the mod is shit. Please read the instructions and search the forum.

Are you able to load GTA normally, without RPH?

Try renaming your mods folder to _mods and see if the crashing continues

Hello,

Welcome to LCPDFR.com

It sounds like you have the missing interior bug, please use the updated version of RPH and LSPDFR for this, available when downloading LSPDFR Enhanced Preview:



If you are still experiencing issues afterwards, please upload your latest RagePluginHook.log from your main game folder

Status Updates
LSPDFR for Enhanced
We're very excited to announce that LSPDFR Enhanced, after months of development and testing, is now entering the next phase of the development process and is now available to our Insiders. We are deeply grateful to everyone in our staff team and closed testing community for their feedback and support that have brought us to this point.
 
The current build is largely stable, though a handful of bugs remain and we are not yet feature complete with Legacy. Development is advancing quickly, and each new revision brings us closer to a fully polished release.
 
Several community members have asked whether the Legacy edition will continue to receive attention. Both RAGEPluginHook and LSPDFR have been engineered to accommodate the Legacy and Enhanced branches side‑by‑side. With most of the heavy lifting complete, our goal is to roll out updates to both editions in parallel.
 
As soon as we’ve smoothed out the last few wrinkles and made sure everything runs flawlessly, we can’t wait to roll out LSPDFR Enhanced to everyone.
 
The new LCPDFR.com
Work on the redesigned LCPDFR.com is progressing steadily. The site and its companion, RDR2Mods.com, run on the same underlying codebase.
An early version of the community upgrade is already live on RDR2Mods.com, allowing us to gather real‑world feedback, refine new concepts, and further stabilize the platform before bringing the enhancements to LCPDFR.com.
 
 
We thank you all for your patience and continued enthusiasm, and hope to share even more with you soon.

You make a very good point. I think with enhance the process of modding and some restrictions on EUP and custom cars might be a factor in why people might not want to switch. But if I am wrong then please do correct me.

As for the DLS situation, it is quite late to really make any big switch or change as you mentioned. But I hope at least by posting something, some people will at least give it a try and see the benefits it has. Thank you for engaging with my post I really appreciate it.

Hey! Fantastic to hear about your project.

LCPDFR as mentioned by Gan Ceann, is already open source, and a great deal of engineering effort to make it run on Complete Edition has been made by us; https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta4mods/g17media/26726-compatibility-patch-for-gta-iv-complete-edition/
Our compatibility patch suite already fixes Scripthook .NET, patches aru's C++ scripthook and fixed AdvancedHook. The legacy edition that ships with LCPDFR to this day, supports Complete Edition.

Any further work is always appreciated, and we look forward to reviewing any pull requests or patches you make against LCPDFR.

Hi Max911,

LCPDFR crashes certainly became all too familiar. People have it easy now with LSPDFR handling things that LCPDFR would have folded on. This project sounds great! It would be nice to be able to jump back into some LCPDFR.

I'm not sure if I am reading about your methods wrong, but are you aware that LCPDFR is open source? https://github.com/LMSDev/lcpdfr_public

Hello everyone, I wanted to write this post to inform the LSPDFR community about some misconceptions regarding DLS as a lighting system and addon cars.

I first want to talk about addon cars. This part is mainly for new players, but if you didn't already know this then it is good information to have. Firstly, there is this stigma that addon cars can't be used with backup. As a matter of fact, they can. Whether you are using PR or UB, or editing the agency.xml for ambient backup, all you need to do is put the name of the car from the addon and you are good to go. Another aspect of addon cars that is beneficial compared to replace is that you are not limited to certain slots. For example, you only get police, police2, police3, sheriff, sheriff2, FBI, FBI2, and a few others. But that's about it. Addon cars allow your department to have as many cars as you want. This is a big plus for those who want to base their game off IRL departments. It is still a benefit if you make your game lore friendly.

The second thing I would like to talk about is DLS. There is also a stigma where people mistake DLS for being "complicated" or "difficult" to use. This is also far from the truth. Installing DLS is a simple drag and drop of the plugins folder into the main game directory and that is it. the default control for lights is just J. Then there are other cool things like I for switching TA's and PageUp and PageDown for alleys and takedowns (these things are also configurable to your liking).

Additionally, I understand that ELS has been around since almost the beginning of LSPDFR's lifetime. However, players are being left behind with these old ELS cars, and a plugin that is quite performance intensive. DLS is arguably not as popular (hopefully until now) because on the grand scale of things, content creators only do tutorials for ELS. Think about it this way, majority of car developers have MOVED ON from ELS and switched to making DLS/Non ELS cars. Why are content creators stuck in the past, which evidently causes new LSPDFR and some current players to be also be stuck in the past? Car developers switched to making DLS/Non ELS cars because it provided more benefits to them in terms of lighting customization. For players who are looking to have cars based off IRL departments or cars inspired by them, you can roughly get about 70%-80% of the lighting correct with DLS/Non-ELS. In some cases, even 100%. This is insanely difficult with ELS because ELS patterns are premade by the plugin and you are limited to 12 extras for lights. Non ELS on the other hand, is limited to 32 sirens for lights, which is more than what ELS cars can do and the patterns aren't made by the plugin. The pattern is what the car dev or even YOU can make. For those who like LAPD, LASD, and CHP, you will get more out of DLS than ELS. For example, CHP cars have what you call corner lightbar kills. This is when the emergency lights are on, and when the driver or passenger door is open, the corner of the lightbar turns off. This isn't achievable with ELS. Furthermore, with how much CHP and those departments use Traffic Advisors irl, DLS allows you to switch TA's on the fly. In ELS, you got to scroll through then thousand patterns just to be able to find TA left.

Overall, when you see an addon car remember that everything in the metas (handling, vehicle, carcols, and carvariation) are all taken care of for you. Backups can use addon cars, and your departments can use as many cars as you want.

If you see a DLS car pack, do not get discouraged or be driven away because its DLS. The plugin has amazing emergency light functionality that makes your car feels more unique, and overall fun to patrol in. I will post some of my recommendations for DLS cars and car developers who make DLS vehicles. Give it a try and I think you will enjoy it :). Plus, you can use both DLS and ELS. I just don't want to see players being left behind with these old and outdated cars that are not even up to today's standards just because some content creators are still using ELS cars. There is a brand-new horizon that DLS/Non ELS cars can provide the players with an amazing game experience.

**Note: DLS is the lighting system for NON-ELS cars. Meaning ALL Non ELS cars can be use with it (meaning full lighting stages) as long as someone or you made a config for it. Yes this means you can convert FiveM ULC cars to LSPDFR and use DLS with it as well. If you want to use FiveM cars in your game with DLS you need to remove ELS completely and make sure ExtraPatch is set to true (this is true by default) in the DLS.ini. This is because FiveM cars have sirens attached to extras, and ELS can mess with FiveM car lighting as a result.

DLS Cars:
https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53731-dlsaddon-redmond-police-department-pack/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53763-non-elsdlsv2-2020-california-highway-patrol-fpiu-add-onfivem/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53383-2023-los-santos-transit-police-k9-tahoe/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/52188-san-andreas-dlsv2-starter-pack/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/50199-non-elsdlsv2-2023-california-highway-patrol-dodge-charger-add-onfivem/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53924-2026-chandler-police-pack-n-els-dlsv2-addon/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53960-dlsadd-on-2018-dodge-charger-ppv-chumash-police-dept/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53970-non-elsdlsv2-chp-bmw-r1200rt-p-addonfivem/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/53926-non-elsdlsv2-lapd-bmw-r1200rt-p-addonfivem/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/54025-non-elsdlsv2-generic-bmw-r1200rt-p-addonfivem/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/54421-dls-csp-slicktop-and-unmarked-2018-charger/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/54528-blaine-county-sheriff-department-dls-v2reflectiveaddon/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/40254-2010-ford-crown-victoria-police-interceptor-blaine-county-sheriff-bcso/

https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/vehiclemodels/54526-2010-ford-crown-victoria-police-interceptor-bcso-slicktop-and-unmarked/

[DLS/Add-On] Paleto Bay Township Police Pack (Small Town PA Themed) - Vehicle Models - LCPDFR.com

2020 LAPD FPIU Traffic Unit [DLS V2] [Addon] - Vehicle Models - LCPDFR.com

Contra Costa Mini-Pack [Non-ELS] [32Sirens] - Vehicle Models - LCPDFR.com

[Non-ELS] [DLS] Pomona Police Dept. Pack - Vehicle Models - LCPDFR.com

Car Devs who make DLS/Non ELS Cars:
APE Modifications
Scoprionfam
The Pine Barrens
The Oxygen Tank (Air or Oxygen)
Nuk3
Nathan Modifications (Fivem Car dev but has DLS configs for his cars)
Varical (Fivem Car dev but has DLS configs for his cars)
Sheppy Development (Fivem Car dev but has DLS configs for his cars)
All the Kars
Sparky Development
Jank Modding

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Do you know how to code in general or in C#?

If there is no RagePluginHook.log being generated then something is blocking it. Have you made sure to add the RagePluginHook.exe and GTA V game folder as exceptions in Windows Security?

Ensure you also have full read/write permissions for users for the game folder (Go to folder properties, then the security tab)

Finally try running RagePluginHook.exe as an admin, and see if you can get the log generated

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Please contact the reviewing moderator in regards to your file, or contact a blue management member if you'd like a second review.

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Good day all,

Recently from a 10 year hiatus I have decided to return to the community and I have noticed much has changed since my departure.

Previously I was a modeler, utilizing the versatile GTA IV game engine and resources from hundreds of authors to create my own personal experience, but to also create virtual representations for my local government departments to display different types of lighting packages, equipment, and decal designs.

I have been honored to be able to contribute to both communities, but now I am seeking advice and guidance from you.

As previously stated I have been out of the game for years now. I’ve noticed most of the websites and creators of at least 90% of the previously released resources are no longer able to be found. Also the items I had that were never released, I have no idea on to where to even find them now. I’m needing some advice on where, if it is possible, to find some of these resources.

I have theorized using the wayback machine to possible download some of these as I recall some of the other websites that had these, however as I’m not too familiar with the wayback machine I am unsure if download links will work as the servers that previously held the files are most likely shut down or used for new domains now. My other theory is finding someone that may have had these resources on these forums that would be willing to reach out to me and see if we are able to work something out on sharing these.

In the end, I just want to say thank you to you all for the lasting impact this community on me, and I hope to welcomed back with open arms. Do not hesitate to reach out to me on DM if you do not feel comfortable commenting to the public. I look forward to hearing from you.


Very Respectfully,
Wolfgang

I'm not sure where you got your information but there has been no official announcement or information regarding the development of LSPDFR or RPH for GTAV, post GTA VI release

Replied in the developer Discord:

The change on June 1st is just the extended APIs (do=getAssemblies,do=getAllVersions) the main users of this (discord bots) have already migrated to the new API. Infact, I'm not seeing any usage from our telemetry data (apart from a really badly misconfigured plugin that is receiving an error response anyway) in the past 24 hours.

The legacy check for updates API has been phased out for new files, but for existing files this will be done in staged brownouts later in the year (with better notice). We'll obviously need to assess if it's even viable to completely get rid of, whitelist certain things that break that aren't going to be fixed/etc (although ultimately our hand might be pushed on it at some point - if we have to turn off old TLS versions for a critical security issue for example). If you're using checkForUpdates there will be no change on June 1st.

Sorry, my initial post is a little unclear.

Yes it’s now working perfectly, thanks.

It's not our intention that things in the featured feed would be there forever. In reality, things can end up there for a long time.
There is no per-author limitation, I'm not sure what you mean by that?

We also have the 'Essential Mods' category, which is baked in with other GTA5 Mods category. This is meant to be longer term, and with mods we feel are essential to the 'LSPDFR' experience.
It’s hard to determine which mods are objectively “the best.” We have strong discovery mechanisms, but we don’t necessarily make a definitive judgment on which mods are objectively great.
In many ways, the community makes that call through what they share, what gains traction in their own spaces, what trends, and what gets downloaded most. But all of those signals are shaped by multiple factors, and they don’t always point to the same answer.