GTA 4 modding and trouble shooting

Playing GTA IV requires the registration at Game for Windows Live at game start
and a account at Rockstar Social Club to can make savegames
and playing Multiplayer needs to link the GfWL account to Social Club account

Rockstar released 6 patches in the year 2009 and at last the 7. patch in the year 2010
The 7. patch extended the game for the addons TLaD and TBoGD
(The Lost and Damned - The Ballad of Gay Tony)

A lot of modders and hackers overran GTA IV in the first 3 months after game release
and published tools, hacks and script mods.
In addition a lot of users had problems to run the game because the sycronisation with GfWL don't worked correct
or the firewall blocked the connection
So Rockstar had a lot of work with updates and patches

After 7.patch serveral authors has abandoned the game and their mods
and the result was that some mods don't work on actually game version

trouble shooting, faq, official support page, list of error codes

trouble shooting/gtaforums.com

FAQ/gtaforums.com

official support page

list of error codes

official game updates (en)

official game updates (de)

multiplayer/gtaforums.com

Hilfe in deutscher Sprache/gta-action

 

Script Mods, Tools and game version

GTAIV was played by several versions and a lot of mods have also be done in several versions

Consider always to get an mod version which must fit to your game version


 

XLiveLess, the all-in-one-fix
by listener

look always for the right version which must fit to your game version

XLiveLess, ASI loader, no XLive, change savegame folder
copy xlive.dll into GTA VI root directory
- bypasses the online sycronisation
- in-built asi-loader
- let the game store the save files in %USERPROFILE%\My Documents

Xliveless can help to play the game, of course without the online features but it can be the solution for those who are tired with the online trouble

Xliveless is also an asi loader for the initialization
of asi mods


GTA IV ASI LOADER
by Alexander Blade

download and support

copy dsound.dll into GTA IV root directory

loads custom libraries into the game engine
Libraries must have *.asi extensions

Another asi loader is Xliveless: look above


GTA IV C++ Script Hook
by Aru

download and support

 

This module supports custom script threads in C++ and GTAIV process along with its real scripts threads

 

The most famouse script mod based on C++ Script Hook
is the Native trainer

made by sjaak327

Simple Trainer For GTAIV

download and support

requires asi loader and C++ Script Hook

Another "must have" -script mod based on C++ Script Hook
is the OnFootRadio

made by oinkoink

OnFootRadio

download and support

requires asi loader and C++ Script Hook


GTAIV .Net Script Hook
by HazardX

download and support

 

ScriptHookDotNet requires
asi loader and Arus C++ Script Hook
This ASI plugin allows to run ingame
GTAIV scripts written in any .Net language

The most famouse script mod based on ScriptHookDotNet
is LCPD First Response

made by Mr. Mysterious

download and support

requires asi loader, C++ Script Hook and ScriptHookDotNet

Another "must have" -script mod based on on ScriptHookDotNet
is the Flying car mod

made by LMS

download and support

requires asi loader, C++ Script Hook and ScriptHookDotNet


Alice plugin
by Alexander Blade

download and support

Alice-installer
downgrades GTAIV to version5 and installs the Alice plugin

 

The Alice plugin includes also the the asiloader dsound.dll
Extract the download file and find the neccesary files in subfolder "Copy"
It contains:
- Alice folder
- dsound.dll
- alice.asi
- lua51.dll
Old Alice script don't work with newer Alice version
Last version is Alice 0.9 for GTA IV 5.patch 1.0.0.4

 

Alice supports 2 script laguges
- Delphi/ scripts must have extension *.ext
- lua/ scripts must have extension *.lua
The Alice download files include also exemple scripts
find the exemple scripts in subfolder "Examples\lua"
- CarSpawn.lua
- SaveMe.lua
- SuperMan.lua
lua scripts is simple plain text
editable with normal text editor (notepad.exe)
look for Alice scripts at my Alice site
read more about Alice and lua: below

FileCheckFix
by Alexander Blade

download and support

 

FileCheckFix.asi require asi loader to run
It disables the game file check which should protect cheating on multiplayer

OpenIV: GTA4 file editor by GooD-NTS

OpenIV
Viewing of GTA IV files via function “Open Content“
Full support of the RPF2 format. You can add, delete or replace any files
Viewing and extacting data from RPF3 archives (file names are normal)
Full support of the IMG3 format. You can add, delete or replace any files
Textures replacing in any *.WTD and *.WHM files.

SparkIV: Aru´s GTA4 file manager

SparkIV
IMG/RPF Archive Viewer/Editor for GTA:IV
allows to open game files especially IMG archiv
and supports file import/export


WeaponInfo.xml, documentation

WeaponInfo docu

WeaponInfo.xml is simple plain text
editable with normal text editor (notepad.exe)

The weapon file is always the first target for modders, cheaters and hackers
the WeaponInfo.xml of GTA IV is a really paradies

   

 

Alice

Running scripts in LUA language

Script injector
by Alexander Blade

Alice includes the dlls to load asi,
the Alice.asi
and the Lua librarys

Similar like GTASA Cleo Library
allows Alice to place scripts in a folder
to run them by game load
they must be placed in "GTAIV\Alice" folder

GTA4 uses for big part Native Functions
and the Lua script language is also based to use them.
These Lua scripts for Alice are editable
with normal text editor

Lua is a powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language
Lua has been used in many industrial applications,
with an emphasis on embedded systems and games (e.g., World of Warcraft).
Lua is currently the leading scripting language in games
It does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance
Lua is free software, distributed under a very liberal license

Lua Tutorials
and Documentations

Lua is designed, implemented, and maintained by a team at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil

www.lua.org
official website
documentation
FAQ

Learning Lua
lua-users wiki
LuaDirectory

Lua Tutorial
lua-users wiki
tutorial directory

deutschsprachiges Tutorial (german language)

LUA für Anfänger

Tut für GTA IV
kleiner crash-kurs

Lua Forum

 

 


 

 

useful tools

OpenIV: GTA4 file editor by GooD-NTS

OpenIV
Viewing of GTA IV files via function “Open Content“
Full support of the RPF2 format. You can add, delete or replace any files
Viewing and extacting data from RPF3 archives (file names are normal)
Full support of the IMG3 format. You can add, delete or replace any files
Textures replacing in any *.WTD and *.WHM files.

SparkIV: Aru´s GTA4 file manager

SparkIV
IMG/RPF Archive Viewer/Editor for GTA:IV
allows to open game files especially IMG archiv
and supports file import/export

Tools from Prince-Link

DFF2WDR
convert SA DFF files to the GTA IV file format (WDR)

Shadow Mapper
Edit the GTA IV map

WDR Analyze
Analyze data inside WDR Files

Location Handler by voodoo48

GTA IV Location Handler
write in the coordinates, and warp!
You can store/read locations in/from files
read coords from map

WPL Manager by UZI-I

WPL Manager
all about object instancing
(Like the SA's IPL)

Tools from xmen

X GXT Editor

X Handling Editor

X Train Track Editor
3D view, add and Insert new points
on mouse click

Tools from CoMPMStR

GTAIV Weapon Editor

GTAIV Handling Editor

GTAIV iDE Editor

GTAIV Mod Assistant

GTAIV Intro Patch

GTAIV IV Needle
modify text-based data files

GTAIV Ped Personality Editor

GTAIV Vehicle Colors Editor

Control Center by saracoglu

GTA IV Control Center
Edit Health and Armor, Edit Weapon Slots and Ammo's, Set Money, Change Game Time , ever daytime for stunts,
Teleport the player, Set Player Invincible (ie God Mode

GTA-IVaud by Vilavek

GTA-IVaud
open, extract, and replace non-compressed
PCM audio files

   

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