Asking for Help on GTA Forum Sites

 


If you can't find your answer here, GTA 5 forums might help. Here are some useful tips and suggestions, when asking for help, by doing your part first.

  1. Forum Search. Why not start by searching the forum? It's very likely that your issue has been posted once, or many times before, hopefully with resolution.

  2. Google. If you can't find the issue or topic on the forums, next try Google or your favourite engine. While the help offered on some Youtube videos might be hit or miss, there are many excellent tutorials or "how to's" ranging from scripting, to modelling, to codewalker MLOs, interiors, and YMAPs, etc.

  3. Discord. Often mod creators will offer you help on their Discord servers.

  4. Comment Pages. If your problem is with a specific mod, check its comment page, where you download, to see if others have the same issue, if there are solutions, or to ask the mod creator assuming he is still alive and active.

Remember that your game setup is going to be different from everyone else's. This includes your version of GTA (Steam, EGS, Retail), your patch version, your PC hardware components, your PC software, and your installed addons, ymaps, MLOs, trainers, replace mods, scripts, asi mods etc.

Which means please be as specific as possible when describing your problem.

This could include telling the forum your level of knowledge modding. If you're brand new to modding, you might not have installed all the necessary framework components such as SH5 and OpenIV properly. Also useful are your version of the game, what kind of mods are installed, and most importantly does your game run without mods.

And please don't randomly DM forum members for help. I myself get a few of these messages, and while I don't mind helping, remember that discussions about broken games or mods are better suited on the forums. This is so everyone, all forum members, can benefit from learning about an issue and also help participate in the remediation process.

Of help to the community helpers:

  1. Screenshots are very helpful to describe an issue or show a folder structure.
  2. Links. The exact name and download link of a problematic mod. Just don't post "none of my mods" work, or I have "a car" that doesn't load. Not helpful.
  3. Log files. Post the contents of text files such as Dlclist.xml or log files. Using pastebin is often best.

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