EFLC & Vanilla GTA IV

[SyphonX]

So I purchased through Steam, and it installed separately. So now I have two humongous installed folders for essentially the same textures, etc. That was annoying.

 

However, what is most annoying, is that because of this, none of the radio stations are shared, neither are any of the weapons or vehicles. I'm playing through vanilla GTA IV (Niko), and I'm curious if it's possible to import the radio stations from EFLC, without crippling something important. Also, though I doubt it, is it possible to integrate the weapons or vehicles from the EFLC pack into GTA IV original? I don't think that was ever possible to begin with, was it?

 

Kinda silly altogether. Help would be appreciated, as I'm having trouble searching for this.

[mkey82]

This could be done, but you would have to binary compare all the files, then delete all the duplicate files and create some sort of a shell script for example that would switch those files that are different but have the same name and hence cannot share the folder. Also you will need to disable the auto update in Steam for this to work.

 

Basically,

1. turn auto update off on gtaiv and eflc in Steam

2. use winmerge to compare the gtaiv and eflc install folders

3. delete all the duplicate files in eflc folder

4. all the files that are NOT present in gtaiv folder should be moved from the eflc folder. If it asks to overwrite anything you should ship it.

5. now in eflc folder you have only eflc specific files (and folders). So create and eflc folder in gtaiv folder and move the contents of the eflc install folder there

6. create an empty gtaiv folder inside the gtaiv install folder. Into this folder you will have to move all the files that have the same filenames in gtaiv folder as the files in eflc folder. Basically you are looking for files that share the filename but are not the same

7. create a script that will basically copy all the files from one of the folders into the (shared) install folder:-

 

This you can use as "make_gtaiv.cmd" script.

 

 

xcopy gtaiv\* /E

 

 

This you can use as "make_eflc.cmd" script.

 

 

xcopy eflc\* /E

 

 

I hope this was understandable. And no, haven't tested this, but it should work.