Idoc - Pub - Grand Theft Auto IV Download Install Instructions Patch 1040 Razor Crack
Idoc - Pub - Grand Theft Auto IV Download Install Instructions Patch 1040 Razor Crack
Idoc - Pub - Grand Theft Auto IV Download Install Instructions Patch 1040 Razor Crack
2-25-2013: Okay guys, I have completed over 85% of this wonderful game since downloading it in
December 2012. Now, for those that don't know, just completing all of the missions (a feat in of
itself!) means you've ONLY completed 60% of the game! To complete %100 of this game means you
have to complete a lot of other "side missions", races, car thefts; etc. Anyway, my goal is to get
100% completion at the end of this weekend!
Now, with that said, I took the unusual (for me) risk to upgrade my game from 1.0.3.0 to 1.0.4.0, and
got it to work perfectly without losing my percent completion! Oh, and I found a way to generate a
working serial number, so now I can actually play Multiplayer online as well!! However, in order to
play online, you’ll have to allow Games for Windows – Live to update your GTA IV to version
1.0.7.0., so if you have installed mods and/or trainers on your game, you’ll lose them with the update.
I have also included detailed instructions on how to update and get playing Multiplayer online.
Updating to 1.0.4.0
As you can see, I’ve included two documents, Grand Theft Auto IV Download & Install Instructions
(Patch 1.0.4.0 & Razor Crack).doc (this one) and Optimizing GTA IV for use with Intel HD Graphics
GPU.doc that you will most definitely find very helpful! Just because these files are for version
1.0.4.0, you can use these two documents for step-by-step instructions for installing the game, and
updating it to any version you want. If you are only updating to version 1.0.4.0, then simply run the
GTAIV_MAINTENANCE_UPDATE_1040_EFIGS.exe after installing the game per Steps 1 thru 6
below. IMPORTANT: DON’T OPEN or TRY TO START GTA IV BEFORE INSTALLING THE
PATCH & CRACK! Next, copy the crack files 1911.dll, LaunchGTAIV.exe, and xlive.dll located
inside the Crack_Razor1911 folder, and paste them to the game’s root folder, which is called Grand
Theft Auto IV, usually located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\ for
Windows 7 users.
If you want to update to a version higher than 1.0.4.0 (Windows 8 Users & all those who want to play
Multiplayer online need to use 1.0.7.0), then just follow all my steps below.
Enjoy!
Steps to install GTA IV game:
There you go Folks, problems have been solved! BTW, you should have a very fast & powerful
computer processor (Intel core i-series), with plenty of high-speed CPU RAM (8 GB), and a Video
Display driver that has a minimum of 1024 Mb of “dedicated RAM”, so you can have the best
experience. If you experience any “camera shaking” during the game, it’s most likely that you
started the game by clicking on the GTAIV.exe file, instead of the desktop shortcut made for the
LaunchGTAIV.exe file (read above instructions).
NOTE: This is for the gamers that decide not to upgrade to version 1.0.7.0. I reiterate that the
torrent's author where you downloaded the patches from didn't inform everyone that you do NOT
replace the game's GTAIV.exe file with the one downloaded from his site , unless you upgrade all the
way to version 1.0.7.0, as that's the version of the GTAIV.exe file downloaded inside the folder called
Crack + Xlive DLL. So, DO NOT replace the GTAIV.exe file in your game unless you've upgraded to
version 1.0.7.0!!! Otherwise, you’ll get an error. Whatever version patch (before 1.0.7.0) you decided
to run will upgrade the GTAIV.exe file to that version. Therefore, the ONLY files you use in the Crack
+ Xlive DLL folder are 1911.dll, LaunchGTAIV.exe, and xlive.dll. Put those three files in the root
folder for the game called Grand Theft Auto IV.
Oh, and I once again reiterate, you don't have to install any previous versions patches in order
to upgrade to the version you want. Rockstar made sure all patches included the previous
patches. So, just install the version patch you want!
I’ve already been playing GTA IV at one version, so how do I update it to a higher version, and
to be able to play online?
Great question! First of all, ALWAYS make a backup of your game!!! Well, I originally
downloaded GTA IV and used patch & crack version 1.0.3.0, and was playing it as Single-Player all
this time! I recently decided to update to version 1.0.4.0, so I just ran the patch for version 1.0.4.0,
then copied and pasted the crack files in the game’s root folder, but I didn’t replace the cracked
version 1.0.3.0 of the xlive.dll file with the downloaded version (I mistakenly thought all cracked
xlive.dll files were the same), and a funny thing happened!! I started the game, and after a new &
different Razor 1911 logo flashed on my screen, I got the Rockstar Games Social Club account
login window. Now, if I’m not connected to the internet, I would click “Skip login”, and another
Rockstar Games Social Club window appears stating in the upper right corner “You are not logged
in”, and then I clicked the “PLAY” button in the lower left, which brings up another window stating
“You are not currently logged into Social Club. Login to Social Club required to access online
multiplayer and video uploading to Social Club TV.” Since I wasn’t interested in multiplayer mode, I
then clicked the “OK” button. This brings up the Razor 1911 logo, again, and another Rockstar
Games Social Club window stating “The Rockstar Games Social Club application is still running. To
open the application, right-click the icon in the system tray”, where I clicked the “Ok” button in the
lower right. Now the game starts and I get a totally different start window that has a gorgeous big-
breasted Gracie (character in GTA IV) with “Featured Clips in Rockstar Social Club” panel showing!
Wow!! And I’m not even connected to the internet! Oh, and if you didn’t create your “Games for
Windows – Live” account during the initial install of the game, you are prompted with the option to
create an “offline account”, if you want. I created one for “ChopperBob57”.
Well, next comes the scary part!! I then click the game’s “Start” button and instead of loading my last
saved mission (which I’ve completed all of the main missions!), it starts with a brand new game!!! Oh
no!!! It starts from the very beginning with the intro story and “The Cousins Bellic” mission!!! I’m
thinking, “Thank GOD I made a backup of my game!!” Well, I continue with the game to see if it
works, and it does. I then go to the game’s Options Menu and try to load my previous saved missions,
but there are none to load. After a few moments of panic, and thinking I’ll have to reinstall my backed
up copy of GTA IV (which takes 45 minutes!), I played the first nine missions, saving them after each
completion. I then search to where the game is now saving the missions to on my computer, and find
the location at C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\savegames\, instead of
where the cracked Single Player game saves, which is at C:\Users\[User Name]\Documents\Rockstar
Games\GTA IV\savegames\. I also discovered that it now has created a new folder inside the
“savegames” folder called “user_e0000088edf008b7”, where it was saving the games that my
ChopperBob57 username had been playing, as I noticed the nine missions were saved there. I then
tried copying my saved mission files from C:\Users\[User Name]\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA
IV\savegames\ folder to the “user_e0000088edf008b7” folder, but for some reason the game “could
not find” the mission games on my hard drive. I still have to figure that out!
Anyway, during all this, it hit me that I didn’t replace the xlive.dll file when pasting the crack files. I
quit the game, replaced the xlive.dll file with the one I’ve included inside the Crack_Razor1911
folder, and this time there was no Rockstar Games Social Club windows, which meant no online
Multiplayer mode, and no big-breasted Gracie on the startup, but it did load my last saved mission!
And when I went to the game’s Option Menu, all of my last 12 saved missions were there!!! Whew!!
But I was disappointed that I was stuck in Single-Player mode, so I did an experiment. After quitting
the game, I decided to artificially “turn off” the xlive.dll file that I had replaced by renaming it to
xlive_off.dll, and then I started GTA IV, but this time I logged into my Rockstar Games Social Club
account when prompted with internet connection. This time a different Rockstar Games Social Club
window appears prompting me to “Link your Gamertag with Social Club”, explaining that “By linking
your Gamertag to your Social Club account, you can track in-game stats, Achievements,
leaderboards, and more, directly from the Rockstar Games Social Club portal.” The most important
statement was, “*Social Club account required for online multiplayer and video uploads ”, which I
wanted to see if I could do online multiplayer mode, so I linked it. That opened up a Windows Internet
Explorer window at http://support.rockstargames.com/categories/10262-social-club, and the
Rockstar Games Social Club window for playing GTA IV, which now showed me logged in as
ChopperBob57. I then clicked the “PLAY” button. Sadly, this time, instead of big-breasted Gracie
appearing in the Start window, it was Packie! Oh well... I then clicked “Start”.
The game started by loading the last mission saved as ChopperBob57, which was “Ivan The Not So
Terrible”. Well, I had no idea how to play the multiplayer mode, so I googled it and found a great site
explaining it at http://www.gta4.net/multiplayer/. The four simple steps to access multiplayer are as
follows:
To jump into a multiplayer match, you need to have the cellphone. (The cell, however, is given to you
very early in the storyline, so this shouldn't be a problem.) To jump into multiplayer, do the following:
The multiplayer tutorial will give you all of the information you need to know to jump into multiplayer
games, and is a great way to introduce yourself to the dynamics of multiplayer Grand Theft Auto.
Okay, I was able to access the multiplayer mode, but only for LAN, not LIVE, even though I do have
a Games for Windows – Live account, as when I selected LIVE on the cell phone, it said “You must
be logged into Games for Windows – Live to access Multiplayer”. So I went to the game’s Options
Menu, selected “Game”, then selected “Games for Windows – Live”, where it showed I was signed in
as ChopperBob57, and then clicked “Show Games”, where it listed my one game as “GTA IV PC”,
with no Achievements. I then clicked “Join Live”, where it minimized the GTA IV game, and opened
Windows Internet Explorer to http://www.live.xbox.com (it warns you that the game will be minimized),
and then I signed into my Live.Xbox account, but when I restored the game from minimize, it now
showed a window prompting me to enter the serial code for the game. Well, because I didn’t have a
serial key code, I couldn’t connect to the LIVE mode of multiplayer, so no “online searching” for
multiplayer games on Games for Windows – Live.
UPDATE 3-1-2013: First of all, even though he tells you in the video to update GTA IV to version
1.0.7.0, you do NOT have to do it at that time, as later on when you enter your generated serial
number, Games for Windows – Live will give a prompt stating there is an update for it, and that you
must accept the update if you want to play online. More about this, later... As shown in his YouTube
video, you must right-click on the xox.reg file and select “Merge”, then select “OK”, to allow it to
create the necessary registry keys. Next, right-click on the keygen GFWL by alexis221515.exe file
and select “Run as administrator”, which starts the Key Generator, and then click the button labeled
“Generar serial”, as shown in the video. It will create a serial number, which you should copy and
paste in a word document, and printed it out so you can enter it after starting the game. Then enter
the serial number as he demonstrates in his video, and VOILA!!! It works!!!!
However, I must warn all Gamers who want to keep their version 1.0.4.0, that once you enter the
generated serial number, Games for Windows – Live will give a prompt stating there is an update
for it,
and that you must accept the update if you want to play online. Now, since I don’t have any
mods and/or trainers installed in my version 1.0.4.0, I wasn’t worried, so I went ahead and clicked OK
to accept the update.
Well, it updated the game to version 1.0.7.0, as when I right-clicked on the GTAIV.exe file, and
clicked on Properties > Details, it now showed that version! So, beware of this. Another thing I
found that the updating does is that it states, “Rockstar Games Social Club Application is no longer
required to run Grand Theft Auto IV”, which is an outright lie!!!
I clicked the red “x” to close that window to not have it remove Rockstar Games Social Club (RGSC),
but it removed it anyway, and because it removed RGSC, you can no longer start GTA IV through the
RGSC Launch Window as shown in the video; therefore, you’re not logged into RGSC when you start
GTA IV.
It’s very important to click “No” when it asks to completely remove RGSC, because, when I
tried to access Multiplayer “LIVE” mode using the game’s cell phone, I got the message “You must be
logged into Rockstar Games Social Club to access Multiplayer”. However, when you click “No”, the
update will still completely remove RGSC from the Rockstar Games Social Club folder located at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\, but not from the RGSC folder located at C:\Program Files
(x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\ which is important!!
When you click the “Finish” button, the GTA IV game tries to start, as the Razor 1911 logo appears,
but the game never starts:
That’s because the update had removed Rockstar Games Social Club application! So, here’s what I
did. There is a file called setup.exe located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft
Auto IV\RGSC\ that modifies or repairs the Rockstar Games Social Club application, so I double-
clicked it and it started the InstallShield Wizard for RGSC:
I selected “Repair” and clicked “Next”, which started the “Updating Rockstar Games Social Club”
process:
When the update finished, it brought up the “End User License Agreement”, which you have to click &
hold on the right edge of it and scroll all the way to the bottom in order for the “I Accept These Terms”
button to activate for you to click on it:
And that brings up the “Join Rockstar Games Social Club” window that you click:
Then you now either log into it, or join it to create an account (if you haven’t before):
That brings up the “Games for Windows – Live” window, now click the “Link Gamertag Now” button:
The other multiplayer option you’ll see when accessing “Multiplayer” in your character’s cellphone is
LAN, which is searching for “Local Area Network” games, and the list of GTA mission games were
identical to those in LIVE, but after selecting several, I found that no other player but myself was
logged in, so I wasn’t able to play any. Oh well, at least I know it works!!! BTW, you can send me an
invitation to be a friend to play online, if you want. My I.D. is ChopperBob57.
So, there you have it! By “turning off” the xlive.dll file (by renaming it to something else), and starting
GTA IV using the RGSC desktop shortcut, I was able to access the game’s online multiplayer
functions and start collecting Achievements when playing the missions. Now, all I’ve got to figure out
is how to get it to recognize my previously completed missions!
So, in summary, the updating to a higher version was very simple. Just run the patch, copy and
paste the three crack files into the root directory, and you can start the game and still have all the
completed missions you had before updating. If you want to access online multiplayer mode,
then “turn off” the xlive.dll file, and start Rockstar Games Social Club to start GTA IV, but remember,
you’ll not have any of the missions you completed in the earlier version of GTA IV, and will have to
start the game from the very beginning!
Finally, as I don’t have a YouTube account, I couldn’t leave a positive comment for
anonimas321123, but if you have one, please leave some great comments for anonimas321123, as
he created a great video, and provided a link to a working Key Generator. BTW, you’ll also find a
copy of the “keygen GFWL by alexis221515” folder here where you found this document. Open it
and you’ll find those two files called xox.reg and keygen GFWL by alexis221515.exe. That should
reduce your efforts in having to find and download them!
I’ve already been playing GTA IV for some time using the Single-Player cracked version, and
have a lot of missions already saved. Is there a way I can play both – as Single-Player where I
won’t lose any of the completion percentage, and as an Online Multiplayer where I can earn
Achievement Awards and play online with other Gamers?
Yes you can!!! As I’ve already stated, there are two different directories where the cracked Single-
Player version saves the completed missions versus the un-cracked Multiplayer version. So, here
are the steps to play each one:
Single-Player
1. Make sure the xlive.dll file is installed in the game’s root directory, or if you’ve changed its
name to run Multiplayer, then rename it back to xlive.dll. NEVER DELETE THIS FILE!
2. Start the game using the LaunchGTAIV.exe desktop shortcut you created.
Multiplayer Online
1. Rename the xlive.dll file to something else, such as xlive_off.dll, so that it doesn’t work.
2. Start Rockstar Games Social Club by clicking on its desktop shortcut.
3. Log into your Rockstar Social Club account. (Remember, you should have already created all
three accounts required for online Mulitplayer)
4. Once logged into your account, the Rockstar Games Social Club window will appear:
5. Now, start GTA IV by clicking on the “PLAY” button.
6. Once GTA IV has started, you’ll be notified if you’re logged into your Games for Windows –
Live account. If you’re not logged in, press the “Home” button on your computer to bring up
your Games for Windows – Live menu page and click the “Connect to LIVE” button.
The beauty of these two methods is that you can continue to progress in your Single-Player version
towards 100%, and join online play with world-wide gamers! Of course, you can choose to ALWAYS
play online so you can earn Achievement Awards and post your videos, Awards, & Stats on Rockstar
Games Social Club while completing the game’s missions.
How do I report a hacker/modder who was using aimbot and other mods in a game of GTA IV,
because he just ruins my online experience with this great game?
Any players that have modified their hardware or software should be reported to Sony, so please be
sure to report their game player id to: http://www.playstation.com
Can I increase the dedicated Video RAM on my Laptop? It uses Intel HD Graphics.
It might be possible if you are able to access the advanced chipset menus in the bios setup screen.
Unfortunately, most stock Toshiba motherboards don’t allow access through the bios.
Short answer is no, you can't. The long answer is that if your specs show your video card uses
64MB-1696MB of dynamically assigned RAM, for example, this means your video card automatically
uses some of your system (CPU) RAM for your video/graphics card. So, as the video demands
increase, your computer automatically assigns more system RAM to your graphics card. This will be a
minimum of 64MB to a maximum of 1696MB.
Your video card has no dedicated video RAM, no VRAM, of its own. This severely impacts the
performance of the card. As well, you have an Intel graphics chip, integrated into an Intel chipset,
which is integrated into your motherboard. So, there's no way to upgrade your graphics capabilities.
To see what your card is using at any one time, go to your desktop, right click on a blank part of the
screen, left click on 'Screen resolution', and click on 'Advanced settings'. At the bottom of the
'Adapter' tab, in 'Adapter information', you will see your video card's memory breakdown.
Can I play GTA IV on my PC or Laptop that uses Intel HD Graphics integrated chip?
YES!!!!!! Although, you won’t be able to set GTA IV’s Graphics Options to their highest settings, you’ll
still be able to play it with decent graphics. Open, read, and follow the steps outlined in my
document, Optimizing GTA IV for use with Intel HD Graphics GPU. GTA IV is running nicely on
my Toshiba Satellite P775-S7320 laptop, which has Intel HD 3000 GPU graphics chip that only has
64 Mb of dedicated video memory! I run Windows 7 Home Premium with 2 nd Generation Core i7, and
6 GB CPU RAM. So, take heart, as you can run GTA IV!!! Those with 3rd Generation Intel Core
series CPU and using Windows 8 will find updating to version 1.0.7.0 is best before applying my
optimization steps!