GTA IV freezes in mission "Easy As Can Be" during in-game cutscene

[Spoggi99]

Hello ThirteenAG,

I noticed a problem during the mission "Easy As Can Be" given by Brucie Kibbutz. After you reached the car you are supposed to steal, an in-game cutscene of Niko entering the car starts and the game freezes.

Up until now, I thought that the problem was isolated to me and related to other mods. However, I published a Steam guide called How to make GTA IV: The Complete Edition perfectly playable in 2020 a few months ago (featuring FusionFix and Col.Accel among other fixes). This guide gained moderate popularity on Steam and I frequently have to answer comments and troubleshoot. One such comment described the exact same problem with "Easy As Can Be" that I've experienced. As a result, it seems like this freeze is a direct result of the FusionFix. The only way around it is to move the FusionFix out of the GTA IV directory, play the mission, save, and then reinsert the FusionFix afterwards.

I replayed the whole GTA IV story with your fix and "Easy As Can Be" is the only mission where it caused a game-breaking problem.

Thank you very much for your efforts and your great fixes - they bring joy to many of us GTA players, including myself! ;)

[ThirteenAG]

Can you try to disable various options and find out which one causes it? First disable all, and see if it happens that way.

[Spoggi99]

Sure, I will try that out as soon as I can.

Thank you for the quick reply!

[Spoggi99]

Sorry for the very late reply. I was not able to replicate the problem and therefore assume that one of the latest builds of your mod fixed the problem.

Again, sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your incredible work on this mod!

[LtFrankDrebin]

I can confirm that this bug is still present in the latest version of FusionFix from 30 May 2022. I fixed it by limiting FPS to 50 in the GTAIV.EFLC.FusionFix.ini ("CutsceneFpsLimit = 50").