Sudden Freeze During "Someone Special Mission"

[Vlad788]

I've reached a trap, that is preventing me from completing the game. Basically what happens is when I'm told to pickup Roman in Firefly Island for the "Someone Special" mission, the game goes from running normal to abruptly hanging at the Firefly Island area where Roman is. The game hangs drastically and goes to 0-1 FPS. I have to force quit and close the game via Control Alt Del. I do have mods installed but they are only custom cars, nothing else that alters the game core files at all. I didn't really test it extensively enough, but I'd figure I'd post it here first. Any ideas as to what could be causing this? The game worked flawlessly until that particular point. The game is patched as it is the latest version from Steam.

 

Any Ideas?

Thanks.

 

 

[NaidRaida]

The only thing I can tell you so far:

Try to run the game without any mods (only an official patch). I cannot believe that the game will hang without mods.

Do not try to add modified cars when the car you´re gonna change is already parked in one of those parking spaces ner a save house. This may hang the game after some time of playing.

Only add/change cars models when they´re driving around freely. I don´t suppose that it is this error but who knows... GTAIV does sometimes strange things you know.

 

I personally use patch 1.0.3.0 and have no problems at all. Make sure you´re using actual drivers for your hardware.

Edited May 20, 2011 by NaidRaida

[radioman]

WOW, you left out A LOT of REQUIRED information from the Pinned Troubleshooting thread, as posted be Justin(a Moderator):

Before you post a topic, please read the pinned bug lists/fixes. It is likely that you're not the first person to encounter a problem, and we may have found a solution already. In addition to these pinned topics, please utilize the forum search engine. adamcs has produced an extremely helpful guide which explains the finer points of successful searching, accessible here.

 

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Also, more than likely the Mods are the problem, as stated here by a moderator(Justin):

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Please answer ALL the above from the Quote, so we can better help you...

[unc13bud]

i agree its probably the mods, but gta IV did crash on me today when i was riding in a cab. but i had been playing already for five fours maybe. it happened while i was hitting v to change views. i wouldn't mod such an unstable game, it has enough strangeness without modifications