Broke my GTA IV

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 12:34

A few days ago i got GTA IV on steam, played it for a few hours, really enjoyed it. Looked up car mods and got the real life car pack of a well known mod site, installed it, started up and said this version is not supported. There was literally no way to uninstall the mod no matter what, it was an installer and didnt come with an uninstaller, i tried deleting all the files, and last night i deleted every single game file and re-downloaded via steam which took 8 hours, why the hell do i still get a pop up telling me unsupported version of the game when the mod isnt installed and i completely re downloaded every file?

Any suggestions to try?

Beerbaron · 20 Mar 2011 at 12:37

there maybe files still in the registry

CrowK · 20 Mar 2011 at 12:51

Did you remove:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV
?

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 13:00

CrowK said:
Did you remove:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV
?

yeah did nothing

Kempster · 20 Mar 2011 at 14:33

Tried doing an “Verify Integrity of Game Files” ?

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 15:04

Kempster said:
Tried doing an “Verify Integrity of Game Files” ?

yep tried, i would advise people against downloading this http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads/gta-iv/vehicle-mods/4510 unless you are running an old version of the game, i dont think im going to be able to play now, will have to download the episodes and play them instead.

SulacoSystems · 20 Mar 2011 at 15:30

did you delete your save?
i had to delete mine after one of the mega trainers broke mine after i set nico to a different character model.

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 15:34

yeah i have, heres a screenshot of what comes up

If the game still wont work even after i've deleted every file and redownloaded the whole game, maybe something was installed in the registry like beerbaron said?

Bizarre · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:00

Maybe try rolling back to patch 1.0.4? You won't be able to play online but at least your game and mods should work.

It's not normally recommended to roll back patches but I've never had any problems when doing so with GTA4 (Steam vesion).

Just DL and install the patch manually.

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:26

ok will give it a try, what about performance fixes and stuff, was gta iv performance ok at 1.0.4?

Bizarre · 20 Mar 2011 at 18:42

The game actually runs better with patch 1.0.3 - 1.0.4 due to the new shadow algorithm in patch 1.0.6 caning performance.

Shadows look nicer with patch 1.0.6 but I wouldn't say they were worth the performance hit that you get from having them fully tricked out.

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:04

seems im required to install the social club with this patch, should that be on their website?

Inazuma · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:15

Try emailing the mod author to ask him for a solution

Bizarre · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:37

You can download it here:

http://www.rockstargames.com/support...GSC/index.html

Social Club was already installed on my system when I rolled back to 1.0.4, though.

Once I installed the patch the game ran as normal.

tom91x91 · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:38

thanks bizarre hopefully should get to play now

Bizarre · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:40

OK, GL matey.