[Craig Kostelecky]

Download Beta 3.3 - thanks samutz for the hosting
Beta 3.3 Update - Last updated August 23
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After about 2 years and 4 months, we are releasing a new public beta, version 3.3.

But hey, what happened to 3.2? Well, 3.2 exists, it just never saw the light of day because there were many bugs in it and the primary contributor's computer crashed so things could not be fixed easily at all. If anybody is curious, they can try out the 3.2 files here. The only cool feature that made it into 3.2 that's not in 3.3 is the cutscene heads were converted and working. We are trying to find a way to redo that for the next relaese.

Okay, enough about beta 3.2, what's new with 3.3? Thanks largely to SilentPL, this mod has had a great revival. Most of the changes were behind the scenes in cleaning up the exe modifying files. A few missions have been updated with proper GTA3 opcode functions. He has also helped make the scm code a lot cleaner and bug free. Speaking of the scm, with the exception of the insane stunts thread (which was largely taken from VC) every variable has the proper name that Rockstar gave them. A few missions have been redone into high level coding.

There are a few rewards given out if the player can complete the game to 100%. Please give it a try as that's the best way to completely bug test it. And I don't know if I will have the time to complete everything to 100%. It's been a while since I gave Gripped! a try.

I'm forgetting a lot of new features, and some I'll let the users find themselves. Please help us test these missions out so we can have the next version be as bug free as possible. Speaking of the next version, we are getting closer and closer to releasing GTA: Liberty City Final v1.0. The next big thing we are going to work on is to try and import the peds and actor models from the XBOX version. Not only will they look better, but they will likely be easier to port functionality for cutscenes.

I'd also like to thank Ash_735 and rmws. for their help as well. It is greatly appreciated.

This post has been edited by Craig Kostelecky on Friday, Aug 24 2012, 20:38

[SteaVor]

Great to see a new public release!

But:

It crashes for me - going to find out what's wrong.

One crash has been resolved by disabling DEP (this step is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY on all x64 version of Windows to get gta-vc.exe to run), but now it's crashing when starting a new game. Am I supposed to not see any sign of a loading bar at all?

Oh, and I DID create a new copy of an unmodified install of VC instead of copying the new files into an exsiting LC 3.1 install, so there should be no conflicts with older ASIs, ASI loader files etc. - this is probably also something to add to my installation guide.

This post has been edited by SteaVor on Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 19:46

[Craig Kostelecky]

QUOTE (SteaVor @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 14:42)

One crash has been resolved by disabling DEP (this step is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY on all x64 version of Windows to get gta-vc.exe to run)

I'm running on Windows 7 64-bit and I do not recall ever doing that.

Which exe are you using? I'm not positive that it works on all of them that are out there.

[SteaVor]

All is well now - I was missing an audio file in \Audio, "Verify paths" button saved the day once again. No crash anymore, played the first 3 missions, everything's fine.

You're right, DEP does not need to be disabled for most EXEs I just tried - only for the NoCD EXE I used. I do seem to remember that there had been issues with legit, CD-enforcing executables quite some time ago when I wrote the Beta3.1 installation guide (where I had mentioned disabling DEP as well), but I can't seem to reproduce it now with the subset of executables available to me at the moment.

What about the size of the radar blips? They were much smaller in GTA3, if I recall correctly.

[SilentPL]

I think it shouldn't be altered in LC, as VC (so does LC) have up/down blips. They would look off if they were bigger than regular radar blip.

[SteaVor]

yeah, I forgot about them. I thought you'd just need to modify a scaling factor for all the blips, but that would probably mean that you could hardly differentiate between the Up/Down blips if you made them as small as the usual blips in GTA3.

[Craig Kostelecky]

Which audio file were you missing? Is it one I should have in the package? And I agree with Silent, the blibs should stay as they are.

[SteaVor]

The files in the package are fine, nothing's missing there - I was missing a file that Windows obviously failed to copy from the GTA3 Audio folder to the GTALC one.

Just thought I'd note my observation about the blips - I thought it was strange that all of the other visual elementas had been changed to reflect the original GTA3 settings, but the blips had not. It hadn't occured to me that the VC-specific (and very useful) up/down blips would be affected as well. I don't want the size of the blips changed either.

This post has been edited by SteaVor on Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 21:40

[LCSurvivor]

Just installed it on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, disabled UAC, added compatibility mode, and verified all audio file paths. It starts up, but when I try to start a new game, the bar loads fully, and then LC crashes. The windows error box mentions the crash is due to vcopcodes.asi. Does anyone know what could be going wrong?

[Craig Kostelecky]

Hmm. What exe are you using? And what files are in the root of your LC directory? And finally, is your LC directory in your program files folder?

[LCSurvivor]

QUOTE (Craig Kostelecky @ Wednesday, Aug 15 2012, 03:12)

Hmm. What exe are you using? And what files are in the root of your LC directory? And finally, is your LC directory in your program files folder?

Both the NOCD .exe and the original (euro?) .exe from the original CD.
Files:
gta-lc.asi
gta-lc.exe
gta-lc.ini
gta-vc.exe (NOCD)
gta-vcORIG.exe (Original file)
IIItoVC.asi
Mss32.dll
Mss32Hooked.dll
vc_traffic.asi
vc_traffic.cfg
vc_weather.asi
vc_weather.cfg
vcopcode.asi
vcversion.dll
All relevant files come from the Beta 3.3 you posted.

The path for my folder is C:\Grand Theft Auto Liberty City.
I was thinking GTA:VC just doesn't run on Windows 7 64bit, but you posted you were running the same operating system.

Anyway, I used to enjoy this mod greatly years ago, played it for hours on end. If it won't work for me, it's still a great work, all you guys! Keep it up, you're almost done.

[Mr. Jago]

Perhaps try different cracks, or setting your VC exe to Windows 98 compatibility (then deleting your .set files).

[Craig Kostelecky]

Known issue: There is a crash with the mission UNDER SURVEILLANCE. We are working on a proper fix, but until then your game can be changed to make that mission work by opening up the default.ide file (data folder) and changing the Rumpo and Enforcer's anims flag from null to van. As of right now, the opening chase cutscene only works with that flag set to null, but we didn't realize that would break other missions. Silent is looking into how to accomplish both without changing that file.

I'm at 57% right now in my test and that's been the first crash I've seen so far.

This post has been edited by Craig Kostelecky on Wednesday, Aug 15 2012, 21:01

[glenster]

I have Vista 32 bit. I installed 3.3 using the installation instructions for
Beta 3.1 (without 31update.rar since I figured it would be included with 3.3.).
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=446025

The instructions say not to copy SFX.raw and sfx.SDT from GTA III/audio, but
my game disk Audio folder doesn't have SFX.raw and sfx.SDT, so I copied the en-
tire contents of it. I installed the separate SFX package. The instructions say
to run FinishInstall.bat but the only thing like that I found was AudioClean-
up.bat, so I ran that.

The mod runs fine except I don't have audio for the El Train. Are you sup-
posed to be able to hear it?

v Thanks, and like a lot of people I'm looking forward to the completed mod!

This post has been edited by glenster on Thursday, Aug 16 2012, 05:50

[Craig Kostelecky]

I'm not sure if there is a sound tied to the train. And the sfx did not change at all since 3.1, so you wouldn't have had to do anything with that.

[LCSurvivor]

So, the debug script finally let me have a few seconds on the bridge before crashing and sending me a report, included.

It seems it has trouble with cutscenes? I hope that's helpful.

[SilentPL]

Somehow your game fails at reading cuts.img.

[SomeGuy86]

Wow, so glad to see this project back on its tracks, it's been a loooong time
Here's a couple of questions for you guys...

1) Did you fix that audio/installation issue? I remember installing the earlier version of GTA: LC, and for some reason it didn't want to start until I applied those blank dummy audio files, even though I DO have both III and Vice. (bought the trilogy pack, about a year ago). And yes, I followed the readme files down to a letter, several times, I just couldn't get it to work properly

2) This, latest version mostly features EXE changes, right? So is it now compatible with MVL mod? A while ago, someone suggested the idea of integration with MVL, but after the long struggle to start LC, I found that the previous version wasn't compatible with MVL loader.


Otherwise great job guys, and way the go for not giving up, after all this time

[Craig Kostelecky]

What's mvl?

[Mr. Jago]

QUOTE (Craig Kostelecky @ Wednesday, Aug 15 2012, 18:13)

What's mvl?

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=477801

Nifty little thing, great for adding cut stretches and VC/III themed Premiers.