

Please be advised that after patching with the application I mentioned here the loading screens will be displayed, you will hear the GTA-IV theme tune wherein the screen will then go black for about one minute and then the Rockstar Games Social Club loading screen will appear.(5) Set the options for the game, video, screen resolution, controls (if necessary) and then play. Once you have patched GTA-IV, if you also have EFLC, it will automatically patch that too.(4) Run the game you wish to play. This really only applies if the existing installation has become corrupted, been modified or seemingly won't work.(2) Install - this patches the games so that the old Games For Windows Live (GFWL) login is upgraded so it now connects to the XBOX server which replaced it.(3) When prompted for a login, you can choose to ignore or to create a new XBOX account.įor example, I have a decade-old GFWL account and the server allowed me to login without any issues, but a lot of people have found that their GFWL login no longer works, so make a new XBOX one. Your problems are a direct consequence of using gfwlivesetup.exe(1) Do a fresh install of GTA-IV or ELFC (or both) unless you already have a fresh installation.

Anyway, you won't need to do step (1) in the list I'm providing, but you will definitely need to do step (2) onwards. GTA 4 GTA IV Game stays on a black screen for about a minute when launching since update submitted 1 year ago by Kermit-the-Forg Since the most recent update for GTA IV (the one that removed a bunch of songs), launching the game takes much longer.įirstly, DON'T PANIC - this happens to everyone! Its a consequence of a recent fix to the game that somehow nobody at STEAM bothered to tell anyone about. I mean in the graphics it shows the actual nVidia memory (now it forces the nVidia Card, not the Optimus), but when it loads i can move, i can go out of the house, but everything is black. I finally got work iCEnhancer on my laptop (I saw the post about renaming the hex in the GTAIV.exe - d3d9.dll).
