The mod also adds various new vehicle functions that car mods can use and add support for, such as rotating steering wheels and shaking engine blocks.
Changes/options:
– Added a vehicles.ide flag for Hakumai’s popup headlights (+popuplights)
– Added a vehicles.ide flag for police sirens (+siren)
– Added car shadows in Booth Tunnel, helicopter spotlights and lampposts
– Added full compatibility with the game files from the latest Steam release, fixing the crash when bringing up the phone and the missing radio textures
– Added support for a rotating steering wheel for custom cars
– Added support for all APC features, explosive shotgun and explosive sniper for IV and TLAD
– Added support for customizable popup headlight open angles
– Added support for engineblock part of cars that support it, making them shake like they do in V
– Added support for plane parts, with moving ailerons, rudders, elevators and propellers
– Added support for the droppipebomb_icon texture for the pipe bomb in base IV
– Allows entering raw hashes into .ide files if you add “hash:” before the hash (in unsigned decimal) to get around the character limit in .ide entries
– Allows the game to run through PlayGTAIV.exe so you can run patch 7 or 8 through Steam
– Allows the game to run without LaunchGTAIV.exe/PlayGTAIV.exe
– Decrease loading times to San Andreas levels
– Fixed almost every crash method used in Multiplayer
– Fixed bikes sliding more easily above ~80FPS
– Fixed cutscenes having jittery camera motion at high FPS
– Fixed cutscenes zooming in at high FPS
– Fixed driveby shots not hitting the center of the crosshair when high above ground level (e.g. on top of Algonquin buildings)
– Fixed kickbug because of PCIDs matching
– Fixed mouse movements having a deadzone
– Fixed random crashes when flying planes
– Fixed reverse lights being cast in the middle of the car’s hood
– Fixed scratches and bullet holes not appearing on certain TBoGT or modded cars
– Fixed some objects (e.g. bollards) not casting shadows
– Fixed the 20+ second wait before the game starts up
– Fixed the crash on versions older than patch 8 when exiting the benchmark
– Fixed the crash when switching episodes mid-game
– Fixed the crash when starting cutscenes as a ped model
– Fixed the crash when using SuperLOD as a ped model
– Fixed the fade-in for buildings when they change LOD in 1.0.6.0+ (patches below 1.0.6.0 already had this)
– Fixed the foot position on chopper bikes in patch 5+ (was previously TLAD-exclusive, now ported to all episodes)
– Fixed the freeze after completing Concrete Jungle with EFLC radio stations
– Fixed the game being sped up slightly in some cases due to timing issues
– Fixed the game speeding up above 300FPS
– Fixed the SMPA60 error
– Fixed the standing still animation for bikes during a phone call (patch 5 and up only)
– Fixed various ways in which other players can directly mess with you in Multiplayer, such as teleporting you or removing your weapons
– Fixed vehicles freezing mid-stop
– Fixed VRAM issues above 2GB on patch 7 and below
– Fixed VSync locking to a lower FPS than your refresh rate on Patch 7 and below
– Increase car models limit from 205 to 1024
– Increase PtrNode limit to prevent random crashing with a lot of objects spawned
– Increase the maximum amount of cars with different models loaded at one time from 50 to 100
– Load DLCs in base GTA IV (like if you had bought them from GFWL)
– Option to enable night shadows for buildings and other static objects
– Option to force all lights to cast shadows (e.g. hotdog stands, some of the Booth Tunnel lights)
– Option to have borderless windowed mode
– Option to have more accurate MP sync when players are far away
– Option to make both car headlights have individual lights instead of one combined one
– Option to make reflections reflect all map objects at full quality (including objects such as benches, street lamps, etc.)
– Option to move the savegame and settings files from AppData to the game folder
– Option to override the path gta.dat is loaded from to quickly change between modded and non-modded files
– Option to remove IV’s error messages so one can get actual crash dumps instead (or have the game continue running if it was a non-fatal error)
– Option to remove pausing if the game window’s not in focus
– Option to remove static car shadows from all cars
– Option to remove the arbitrary height cutoff from distant lights
– Option to remove the draw distance from static vehicle shadows
– Option to skip the intro & menu
– Potential performance boost by removing leftover nonfunctional debug code (patch 4, 7 & 8 only)
– Reimplemented the game’s memory allocator, reducing RAM usage, allowing for higher game limits with limit adjusters and eliminating SMPA errors
– Removed all extra file dependencies, allowing you to launch 1.0.8.0 and below without DFA, gta4Browser, binkw32, etc.
– Removed the arbitrary height cutoff from vehicle imposters to make the city look more lively, similar to V
– Removed the gradual light intensity change for lampposts and building windows, instead instantly toggling along with their actual light source at 6:45 and 19:15
– Removed the limit of 4 liveries for cars
– Removed the mod checks from 1.0.4.0, allowing you to access Multiplayer (though there is no crossplay with 1.0.7.0+ users)
– Removed the mod checks from 1.0.7.0, allowing you to see and join 1.0.8.0 lobbies
– Removed the mouse acceleration from sniper rifles
– Removed the savegame CRC check, allowing you to load other people’s savegames
– Removed the signature check from .sco files
– Removed the Social Club login requirement so you can play MP even if you skip login on patch 4 and below, or use Play Offline on patch 7
– Removed the “update or sign out of LIVE” popup in GFWL when running patch 5 and below, making Multiplayer possible on all pre-patch 6 versions
Supports all versions, the mod automatically patches your game to be compatible.
Credits:
RealZolika1351
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