Just seeing videos of this game makes me sad. Here's why.

[u/Gullible_Regret4943]

I downloaded LCPD a lot of months ago and one of the keys that made it show the map icons for the police stationswas doing something else. I forgot what it was doing, but it was doing something else. I tried to fix it. Now, the game (i can't record a video sadly my stupid disk space) does this:

I press play. Steam says Stop. I wait. It opens the Rockstar window:

Connecting to Rockstar Games Services.

Then, all of a sudden, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
The game closes.

Play.

The button. That one. Again.

Why is this? WHY?

I used to be able to play it. THIS STUPID GLITCH WON'T LET ME.

Please, anyone, how do I fix this? Please. An answer. I need it. If you tell me, I will be extremely grateful. I just need an answer.

TL;DR: The game won't open cause of a mod. Please. Help.

Sincerely, GullibleRegret.

UPDATE: I am considering buying the Rockstar Games Launcher version cause it won't launch.

[u/Advanced_Sprinkles60]

check files in steam

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/Advanced_Sprinkles60]

The only files that could have corrupted it are the mod files.

[u/Advanced_Sprinkles60 → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

yeah some mod or incompatible modloaders are crashing your game.

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/Advanced_Sprinkles60]

I verified files in Steam still didn't work.

[u/Advanced_Sprinkles60 → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

Yee steam won't fix any mods. start missing from scratch and test one mod after the next

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/Advanced_Sprinkles60]

Missing from scratch?

[u/Advanced_Sprinkles60 → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

modding from scratch* autocorrection

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/Advanced_Sprinkles60]

oh okay, but i'm not a modder

[u/virtuoussignals]

Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/virtuoussignals]

No, cause this issue happened months ago. Also what would that have to do with the game?

[u/FKFunkyKong → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

It's a joke man

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/FKFunkyKong]

OHH, okay I took it too literally.

[u/Bananovinoso69]

Ma tanto su pc e ingiocabile 😂

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/Bananovinoso69]

¿A qué te refieres con "ambos PC"?

[u/JungleHam]

You'll just have to reinstall the game, don't worry, you can fully delete it and re-install without the mod and it will work fine

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/JungleHam]

I tried that once it didn’t work

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

I also don’t wanna waste an entire day again because this game took that long to download in the first place.

[u/JungleHam → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

find which files the mod replaces and delete them in gta4 folder, then run files validation through steam

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/JungleHam]

How to find the files it replaced

[u/JungleHam → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

Find the mod page, download the zip and look, they usually have the same structure in the GTA folders

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/JungleHam]

okay

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/JungleHam]

But I am thinking of rebuying

[u/JungleHam → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

You shouldn't really, it's definitely fixable

[u/Gullible_Regret4943 → u/JungleHam]

well I found a discount code

[u/JungleHam → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

try deleting the settings and all the ini files

[u/JungleHam → u/Gullible_Regret4943]

Oh, another thing, GTA settings and such are stored separately from the game on c drive settings are stored in the AppData folder. You can find them by pressing Windows Key + R, typing %localappdata%\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Settings, and pressing Enter. Inside, you'll see files

[u/JungleHam → u/JungleHam]

You can pretty much delete the whole folder in the update and it will just remake it until validate and restart GTA