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LSPDFR Complete Installation Guide

For GTA V Legacy (the original PC version) — Steam and Epic.

Every file goes into your main game directory unless the step says otherwise. Where the tutorial backtracked and fixed something later, the correction is already applied here — you won't have to redo anything.

Before you start: set aside two to three hours. Roughly forty mods, thirty config files. Nothing here is difficult, but a single typo in an ini file breaks things silently, so work carefully rather than quickly.

PHASE 1 — Preparation

You need two clean copies of GTA V. One to mod, one untouched as a fallback. If your only copy is already modded, uninstall and reinstall before going further.

Find your game directory

Steam: File Explorer → This PC → your drive → Program Files (x86) → Steam → steamapps → common → Grand Theft Auto V

Epic: File Explorer → This PC → your drive → Epic Games → GTA V

Make the backup

  1. Go back so you can see the folder itself, not its contents
  2. Right-click it → Copy
  3. Left-click empty space below → right-click → Paste

This takes a while. Let it finish.

Pin it

Right-click your main (to-be-modded) game folder → Pin to Quick Access.

From now on you can right-click File Explorer in the taskbar and open it in one click. You'll be going back to it constantly.

PHASE 2 — Base mod downloads

Put everything on your Desktop so it's easy to find.

Mod Notes
LSPDFR Download → Agree and Download → Manual Install only. Never the auto setup
Simple Trainer
Resource Adjuster Reduces texture loss
RAGENativeUI Download RAGENativeUI.zip
Script Hook V Must match your GTA build
Script Hook V .NET
WinRAR Pick your language and 64-bit

The auto setup is the single most common way people end up starting over. It doesn't lay the directory out the way the rest of this guide expects. Manual install, every time.

Install WinRAR before continuing.

PHASE 3 — Base mod installation

Open your main game directory. Keep it open for the rest of the guide.

LSPDFR

Open the archive. Select everything except:

  • the License file
  • the RPH readme

Drag the rest into the game root.

This includes an up-to-date RagePluginHook, so you don't download that separately.

Simple Trainer

TrainerV.asi + TrainerV.ini → root

Resource Adjuster

Open the folder inside. ResourceAdjuster.asi + ResourceAdjuster.ini → root

RAGENativeUI

RAGENativeUI.dll only → root

Script Hook V

Open the bin folder. dinput8.dll + ScriptHookV.dll → root

Script Hook V .NET

Three files, no others:

  • ScriptHookVDotNet.asi
  • ScriptHookVDotNet2.dll
  • ScriptHookVDotNet3.dll

→ root

Refresh the directory (F5) after each drop. It re-sorts the folder so you can see what landed.

PHASE 4 — LSPDFR key configuration

Open lspdfr → Keys → the config file.

Highlight the word None somewhere in the file and press Ctrl+C. You'll paste it repeatedly.

Setting Change to
Pursuit Menu Controller Key None
Crime Report Controller Key None
Stop Peds Key I
Perform Arrest Key I
Chase Abort Join Key None
Chase Abort Join Controller Key None
Traffic Stop Start Controller Key None
Traffic Stop Interact Key I
Traffic Stop Interact Controller Key None
Toggle Police Computer Controller Key None
Backup Menu Key None
Backup Menu Controller Key None

File → Save.

Why these specifically:

  • Leave Traffic Stop Start on Left Shift. It's the community standard and everything else assumes it.
  • Chase Abort Join gives up G because Stop The Ped needs it.
  • Police Computer on controller shares X with the in-vehicle weapon switch — leave it bound and your computer opens every time you change weapons.
  • Backup Menu on B collides with Simple HUD later. Clearing it now saves a trip back.

PHASE 5 — LSPDFR settings

Open lspdfr → LSPDFR Configuration Setting.

Setting Change to Why
Main Preload Models false Major texture-loss fix
Ambient Disable Escape Suspect Counter true
Chase Disable Camera Focus true Stops the camera yanking toward a passing suspect mid-chase
Ambient Disabled Player Flashlight Override true Hands the flashlight to Stop The Ped

File → Save.

PHASE 6 — RagePluginHook setup

  1. In the game root, find RagePluginHook.exe → right-click → Pin to taskbar (Windows 11: right-click → Show more options → Pin to taskbar)
  2. Close the directory and launch it from the taskbar
  3. Accept
  4. Plugin Timeout Threshold → 60000
  5. Never change the Console Key. It stays F4.
  6. Plugins → Load These Plugins on Startup → check LSPD First Response
  7. Back to Load All Plugins on Startup
  8. Game Settings → Backup Game Version → Backup Current Version
  9. Save and Launch

Step 8 is worth doing. When Rockstar patches the game and Script Hook V hasn't caught up, that backup lets you roll the game back and keep playing.

Epic Games users launch differently: exit RagePluginHook, start GTA V from the Epic launcher, and click RagePluginHook from the taskbar as the loading screen comes up. Too early and the game crashes; too late and it won't hook. If it opens windowed, press Alt+Enter.

At the platform screen, choose Story Mode with RagePluginHook.

PHASE 7 — First launch and character creation

If LSPDFR isn't in the pause menu: press F4, type reloadall, press Tab, press Enter.

  1. Pause → LSPDFR → Character → Nearest Police Station
  2. Walk to the door → E (or D-pad right)
  3. Go On Duty → Yes → OK

Mugshot

  • Heritage — pick a mother and father. Resemblance fully toward one parent reads better than a blend; skin tone around halfway.
  • Features — set all eleven to Standard. Faster and it looks fine.
  • Appearance — hair, eyebrows, facial hair, eye colour, blemishes.
  • Backspace → Save and Continue → type your officer's name → Enter → click your name to select it.

Police Locker

Agency LSPD → Outfit → press right once.

Sunglasses: Advanced Customization → Props → Prop 1.

Backspace three times → Confirm.

Police Garage

This part matters for ELS. The vapid police cruiser is the only vanilla car ELS can drive, and only with both extras removed.

  1. Agency → LSPD (not LSSD)
  2. Select the Police Cruiser (vapid)
  3. Components → turn both extras OFF
  4. Backspace → Modifications → Apply All
  5. Backspace → Select and Continue

You're on duty.

PHASE 8 — Simple Trainer setup

F3 to open. Controller: right bumper, then X.

Navigation — Num Lock must be on or nothing works: 8 up · 2 down · 4 left · 6 right · 5 select · 0 back

Options

  • Infinite Stamina → enable
  • Press 6 for the right column → Show Fort Zancudo on Map → enable
  • Reveal Full Map → enable
  • Save Settings to TrainerV.ini (select it twice to confirm)

Also in here for later: Clean Player Clothes, Max Health, Max Armor.

Menu colours

Set Menu Colors/Font → 6/4 cycles colours. Menu colour cyan, highlight colour lawn green — high contrast, easy to read against the game.

Back → Save Settings.

Vehicle options

  • Vehicle God Mode → enable
  • Vehicle God Mode Settings → Auto Clean → enable
  • Back, then 6 for the right column:
    • Vehicle Boost → enable
    • Infinite Boost → enable
    • Engine Power Multiplier → enable
    • Set Engine Power Multiplier → 70

Don't enable Nitro — it behaves oddly.

Back → Options → Save Settings.

Weather

Extra Sunny is the practical default. Snow doesn't work on this version regardless of what the menu offers.

Weapons

Never select "Get All Weapons." It crashes the game most of the time.

  1. Remove All Weapons first — start clean
  2. Unlimited Ammo → enable
  3. Add, one at a time:
    • Parachute
    • Night Stick
    • Flashlight
    • Pistol (service)
    • Combat Pistol (backup)
    • Stun Gun — the plain one, not the MP version. The MP one recharges far more slowly.
    • Press 6 for the right column:
    • Pump Shotgun
    • Carbine Rifle
  4. Weapons Attachments and Tint Menu → for each weapon in your wheel, enable the Flashlight
  5. Weapons Load Save Menu → Save All Weapons to Slot 1
  6. Options → Save Settings

Every session from now on: F3 → Weapons → Weapons Load Save Menu → Load All Weapons Slot 1. Your loadout does not persist on its own.

PHASE 9 — TrainerV.ini

Back to the desktop. Open TrainerV.ini in the game root.

Setting Change to
Spawn A Driver Key 0
Add Waypoint Key 0

File → Save.

Both default to keys you'll be using constantly, and one of them spawns hostile vehicles behind you.

PHASE 10 — Plugin downloads, batch 1

JoJo's sites — Speed Radar Lite, Compulite, Stop The Ped, Ultimate Backup — open redirect pages when you click download. Close the popup, click the arrow again, repeat. It takes several tries. It's ad-gating, not malware.

  1. Skin Control
  2. Speed Radar Lite (JoJo)
  3. Automatic Siren Cutout (Rich) — main file
  4. ELS — main file
  5. Better ELS Reflections (Matthewski) — main file
  6. Callout Interface (Opus49) — main file
  7. MDT Textures for Callout Interface
  8. Clear The Way V
  9. Compulite (JoJo)
  10. Realistic Usable Charges and Citations
  11. Custom Environmental Lighting for ELS
  12. Custom Pullover — main file
  13. Deadly Weapons
  14. Fast Draw — main file
  15. RPH Delete Vehicle — main file
  16. OpenIV
  17. LIAR radar gun (Opus49) — main file
  18. Clipboard and Notepad (Echo) — main file
  19. LemonUI

Always take the main file, never an optional or beta variant.

PHASE 11 — OpenIV setup

Install

Run the installer → Continue → accept terms → Continue.

You cannot change the install path — it goes on C: regardless.

  • ✅ Create Desktop Icon
  • ❌ Run OpenIV After Installation (uncheck this)

Continue → Yes → Close.

Drag the desktop shortcut to your taskbar, then delete the desktop copy.

Point it at your game

  1. Open OpenIV → Windows for Grand Theft Auto V
  2. Browse → navigate to your game folder → click it once → Select Folder
  3. You should get a green confirmation that it found gta5.exe → Continue

Configure

  1. Tools → Options → General → Default Work Mode: Read Only → Edit → Close Now you're in edit mode automatically every time.
  2. Click Edit Mode (blue banner appears)
  3. ASI Manager → OpenIV.ASI → Install (both boxes checked) → Yes
  4. Also install OpenCamera → Close

A mods folder now exists, currently empty.

Build the mods folder

  1. Close OpenIV, open your game directory
  2. Hold Ctrl and select both the update folder and the x64 folder
  3. Right-click → Copy
  4. Open the mods folder → right-click → Paste

This takes several minutes. Let it run. It gives OpenIV a safe layer to edit so you're never touching original game archives.

PHASE 12 — Plugin installation, batch 1

Keep the game root open. Refresh after each drop.

Skin Control

.ini + .asi → root

Speed Radar Lite

Open the folder → plugins folder → root

Automatic Siren Cutout

GTA5 folder → plugins folder + InputManager.dll → root

ELS

Installation Files → Grand Theft Auto 5 → everything → root

Better ELS Reflections

Folder → folder → Brighter → "Brighter with Higher Range and Brighter Takedowns" (the middle option) → els.ini → root, replace.

Callout Interface

GTA5 folder → select everything → hold Ctrl and deselect RAGENativeUI.dll → root

You already have RAGENativeUI in the root. The one in here is older.

MDT Textures

Folder → GTA5 folder → plugins → root, replace files.

Clear The Way V

This one goes inside the plugins folder, not the root.

Open plugins in your game directory → drag ClearTheWayV.dll in there.

Compulite

Compulite folder → plugins → root

Realistic Usable Charges and Citations

Navigate to plugins → lspdfr → Compulite folder.

Drop in the citations file and replace. The charges file is optional — take it if you want a different charge list than stock.

Custom Environmental Lighting

First create the scripts folder. In the game root, right-click empty space → New → Folder → name it exactly scripts (lowercase).

Then CustomEnvironmentalLighting.dll → scripts

Custom Pullover

plugins → root

Deadly Weapons

Deadly Weapons folder → everything except the readme → root

Fast Draw

Fast Draw folder → GTA5 folder → drag the whole scripts folder → root. It merges with the one you just made.

RPH Delete Vehicle

plugins → root

LIAR radar gun

LIAR folder → GTA5 folder → select everything → deselect RAGENativeUI.dll → drag IPCommon.dll and the plugins folder → root, replace.

Then the textures, via OpenIV:

  1. Open OpenIV, edit mode on
  2. Navigate: mods → update → x64 → dlcpacks → patchday8ng → dlc.rpf → x64 → models → cdimages → weapons.rpf
  3. In the archive, highlight one of the Vintage Pistol filenames → click again to select the text → right-click → Copy
  4. Paste into OpenIV's search box to jump straight to it
  5. Drag the Vintage Pistol files from the archive into OpenIV — not the readme
  6. Clear the search box
  7. File → Close All Archives → close OpenIV

Clipboard and Notepad

Clipboard folder → plugins → root

LemonUI

SHVDN3 folder → LemonUI.SHVDN3.dll only → scripts folder

If one's already there, another mod supplied it. Fine either way.

PHASE 13 — Config files, batch 1

SkinControl.ini — game root

Hotkey reads 119. Put your cursor after the 9 and backspace until only 9 remains. That binds it to Tab and frees F8.

File → Save.

RPH Delete Vehicle — plugins

Setting Change to
Delete Key D

Leave the Shift modifier. Result: Left Shift + D.

Clipboard — plugins/lspdfr

Setting Change to
Clipboard Key T
Notepad Key Y
Clipboard Modifier Key Left Control

Notepad's modifier is already Left Control. Result: Left Control + T clipboard, Left Control + Y notepad.

Compulite — plugins/lspdfr

Setting Change to
Open Computer Key X
Give Citation Key X
Give Citation Modifier Key Left Shift
Open Computer Controller Button None
Court case waiting duration 24
Pause game when opening No

Result: hold X for the computer, Left Shift + X to issue a citation. Not pausing keeps the world moving while you work.

LIAR radar gun — plugins/lspdfr

Setting Change to
LIAR Key 1 (numpad)
Position X 612
Position Y 755
Scale 71
Volume 5
HUD Colour 1

Positions the readout clear of your postal code and status text. 1 is a red HUD, 0 is green.

Callout Interface — plugins/lspdfr

The longest one. Work down carefully.

Setting Change to
Callout Menu Key F10
Toggle Terminal Key NumPad7
Toggle ALPR Key D
Hold Interval 300
MDT Call Sign your callsign, ALL CAPS
MDT Position X 1353
MDT Position Y 698
MDT Scale 91
MDT Timeout 15
MDT Sound Display 4
(line below it) 5
Postal Code Enabled True
Postal Code Set virus_City
Postal Code Position X 318
Postal Code Position Y 17
Postal Code Scale 47
Plate Enabled True
Plate Position X 495
Plate Position Y 907
Plate Scale 60
All Auto Tab entries True
Auto Blip True
Blip Enabled True

Callsign format: first number 1–10, name from the phonetic set, second number 1–24. Capital T on every True.

Phonetic names: ADAM, BOY, CHARLES, DAVID, EDWARD, FRANK, GEORGE, HENRY, IDA, JOHN, KING, LINCOLN, MARY, NORA, OCEAN, PAUL, QUEEN, ROBERT, SAM, TOM, UNION, VICTOR, WILLIAM, XRAY, YOUNG, ZEBRA

So 1 ADAM 7, 3 LINCOLN 22, and so on. Use the same callsign in Grammar Police later — they have to match.

Speed Radar Lite — plugins/lspdfr

Setting Change to
Increase Threshold Key I
Decrease Threshold Key O
Threshold Modifier Key Left Shift
Initial Speed Threshold 55

Fast Draw — scripts

Setting Change to
Menu Key NONE

Fast Draw has nothing worth configuring in-game, and Stop The Ped needs F9.

PHASE 14 — Launching with standalone plugins

Anything installed into the plugins folder is a standalone plugin, and RagePluginHook needs telling about each one.

From now on, launch like this:

  1. Click RagePluginHook on the taskbar
  2. Immediately hold Left Shift and keep holding until the settings window appears
  3. Plugins → Load These Plugins on Startup → Check All
  4. Load All Plugins on Startup
  5. Save and Launch

PHASE 15 — Plugin downloads, batch 2

  1. Immersive Effects (Faya) — main file
  2. Turn Off That Engine (SuperPowerManiac)
  3. Riskier Traffic Stops (ashopburgers) — main file
  4. Spotlight (alexguirre)
  5. Keep The Door Open (Coro)
  6. Ambient Effects (Dilapidated)
  7. Open All Interiors
  8. Restrain The Deceased (Faya) — main file
  9. Bait Car — main file
  10. In-Game Screenshot
  11. Dash Cam V (PedroGamer)
  12. Grammar Police (Opus49) — main file
  13. Heli Assistance (OG does it) — main file
  14. Simple HUD — take SimpleHUD.zip specifically
  15. Radio Realism Alpha (Buddha Rocks)
  16. Radio Realism First Response (Officer Porky)
  17. Sticky Wheels (Coro)
  18. Stop The Ped (JoJo)
  19. Search Items Reborn (Officer034)
  20. Ultimate Backup (JoJo)

Open All Interiors isn't optional in practice — most modern callout packs require it.

PHASE 16 — Plugin installation, batch 2

Immersive Effects

files folder → plugins only → root

Turn Off That Engine

Folder → plugins → root

Riskier Traffic Stops

plugins → root

Spotlight

Goes inside the plugins folder.

Open plugins in your game directory → drag in both spotlight_resources (folder) and spotlight.dll.

Keep The Door Open

GTA5 folder → plugins → root

Ambient Effects

AmbientEffects.dll → scripts folder

Open All Interiors

Both files, not the readme → root

Restrain The Deceased

files → plugins → root

Bait Car

GTA5 folder → plugins → root

In-Game Screenshot

Both files → scripts folder

Dash Cam V

Open the "lur friendly" version.

dashcamV.dll + dashcamV.ini → plugins folder

Grammar Police

Critical: when prompted, do not replace CalloutInterface.ApplicationExtension.dll or IPTCommon.dll. Overwriting either silently breaks Callout Interface, and nothing tells you why.

GTA5 folder → drag the lspdfr folder and the plugins folder → root

Then the textures, via OpenIV:

  1. Open OpenIV, edit mode on
  2. Navigate to mods → look for x64c.rpf
  3. If it isn't there: find x64c.rpf in the left-hand column, right-click → Copy to mods folder, wait a moment
  4. Then: x64c.rpf → levels → gta5 → props → lev_des → v_minigame.rpf
  5. Drag in both texture files from the archive — not the readme
  6. Clear the search box → File → Close All Archives → close OpenIV

This is the CB radio prop.

Set up your microphone — Grammar Police won't work without this:

  1. Windows Settings → search Sound → Sound Settings
  2. Under Input, select the exact microphone you'll be speaking into
  3. Close

If you skip this, dispatch will not understand a word you say. Running Windows' voice recognition setup once improves accuracy further.

Heli Assistance

Its three files, not the readme → plugins → lspdfr folder

Simple HUD

Open your scripts folder in the game directory.

In the archive: GTA5 folder → scripts folder → select everything → drag into your scripts folder.

This is what LemonUI was for.

Then the texture, via OpenIV:

  1. Navigate: mods → update → update.rpf → x64 → textures → script_txds.rpf
  2. Drag in simpleMenu.ytd from the archive's textures folder
  3. Clear search → File → Close All Archives → close

Radio Realism Alpha

The one drop where placement genuinely matters.

Navigate in your game directory to: lspdfr → audio → scanner

In the archive, follow the matching path: GTA5 → lspdfr → audio → scanner → find the resident folder.

Drag resident into your scanner folder — drop it in empty space, not on top of an existing folder. If you drop it onto something, it nests wrongly and the audio breaks.

Replace 18 files when prompted.

Radio Realism First Response

plugins folder + lspdfr folder → root

Sticky Wheels

GTA5 folder → plugins → root

Stop The Ped

Stop The Ped folder → plugins → root

Search Items Reborn

Folder → GTA5 folder → plugins → root, replace 2 files

Ultimate Backup

Folder → plugins → root, replace 2 files

Search Items Reborn and Ultimate Backup deliberately overwrite Stop The Ped files. Install them in this order, after Stop The Ped, or you'll undo them.

PHASE 17 — Config files, batch 2

In scripts

In-Game Screenshot

Setting Change to
Screenshot Key K

Simple HUD

Setting Change to
Direction Position X 292
Direction Scale 51
Road Position X 312
Road Scale delete the trailing 5
Postal Enabled false
Time Position Y 912
Time Format 12
Time Enabled true
Toggle Key B
Modifier Key NONE
Menu Enabled true

Postal is disabled here because Callout Interface's version is better positioned. If you'd rather use this one, leave it enabled and disable the Callout Interface one instead — don't run both.

Menu Enabled must be true or the menu won't open at all.

In plugins

Spotlight — plugins/spotlight_resources → General config

Setting Change to
Editor Key F6
Keyboard toggle key S
Controller modifier key NONE
Controller key below it NONE
Mouse toggle key S

Leave the Left Control modifier. Result: Left Control + S.

The mod author distributes preset offset and visual settings files — if you have them, paste them over the defaults with Ctrl+A, Backspace, Ctrl+V. Otherwise the defaults are workable and F6 lets you adjust in-game.

Turn Off That Engine

Keyboard: leave as-is or set any capital letter.

Controller: find the line containing Right Thumb, copy that value, and paste it into Turn Off Engine = None, replacing None. Right stick click now kills the engine.

Immersive Effects

Setting Change to
Menu Key F2

Leave the Left Shift modifier. Result: Left Shift + F2.

Dash Cam V

Setting Change to
Measurement system 1 (imperial / mph)
Date format your preference — 0/1/2 reorder day, month, year
Unit Name your officer name
State San Andreas
Remote Toggle Key I
Remote View Gamepad Toggle NONE (both entries)
Department (every entry) your department name
Black and white filter false for colour

There are several Department fields. Type it once, Ctrl+C, then highlight and Ctrl+V into each. Tedious but quick.

Restrain The Deceased

Setting Change to
Restrain Key E

Leave the controller on D-pad right. No modifier needed.

In plugins/lspdfr

Grammar Police

First, make your own config so updates don't wipe it:

  1. Open the GrammarPolice folder
  2. Right-click the default folder → Copy → Paste
  3. Click the copy once to select the name → rename to custom → Enter → F5
  4. Open custom and delete the placeholder file at the top — nothing else

Now edit the config inside custom:

Setting Change to
Call Sign the same one you used in Callout Interface
Agency IMMERSIVE — all caps, keep the quotes
Dispatch Key 0 (number row, not numpad)
Interface Key F8
Settings Key F7
Radio Key O
Radio Modifier Key Left Control
All Hot Keys None
All Controller Buttons None
Show Notifications True
Player Status True
Show Target Plate True
Status Text Position X 489
Status Text Position Y 980
Status Text Scale 47
Radial Position X 625
Radio Position Y 669
Radio Scale 43
PTT Hold To Talk True
Preface Response 2
Enable Traffic Stop True
Attempt To Initiate Pursuit True
Use Generic Response True
Officer Backup Air True
Every Use Natives flag False

The Use Natives block is easy to skim past — set them all to False.

Preface Response 2 is dispatch answering "go ahead" after your callsign. 1 is "this is dispatch", 3 repeats your callsign back.

Bait Car

Setting Change to
Main Menu Key F11

Heli Assistance

Setting Change to
Player Name your officer name
Unit Name your air unit callsign

Heli Assistance does not respond to Grammar Police. You call it with Left Shift + H and dismiss it the same way. Left Control + H opens its menu. Everything else about it is worth having for the searchlight alone.

Officer Porky plugin

Setting Change to
Display Street Detection Notification True
Enable Auto Ped ID Check True
Key To Play Backup Animation NONE
Controller buttons None

Leave the under-60mph notification False — you want alerts for speeders, not everyone. Leave the radio animation off; it gets in the way.

Riskier Traffic Stops

Setting Change to
Chance value 30

Scale is 0–100. Thirty means roughly one stop in three goes wrong. Higher gets exhausting fast.

Stop The Ped

The longest config in the set.

Setting Change to
Shortcut key to pat down F9
Key to call transport D9
Controller context menu buttons None (both)
Controller quick grab — B None
Controller quick grab — D-Pad Left None
Button to tackle X
Button to boost player speed A
Take control of all peds arrested by LSPDFR NO
Force search result full screen NO
Glowing stick / parking wand NO
Realistic weapon system NO
Prisoner transport backup enabled YES
Use nearest cop as prisoner transport YES
All prisoner transport siren / light / sound NO

Keep the keyboard quick-grab bindings — only the controller ones get cleared.

D9 means the 9 on the number row. Anything written D6–D9 follows the same convention.

Why these:

  • Take control of arrested peds = NO — otherwise other officers leave every arrest standing next to you instead of transporting them
  • Full screen search = NO — results appear above the minimap instead of freezing the game
  • Nearest cop as transport = YES — with a backup unit on scene, they take the prisoner instead of you waiting for a van
  • Realistic weapon system = NO — it's a toggle you enable in-game when you want it

Ultimate Backup

Setting Change to
Toggle Menu Key U
Perimeters code 2 siren lights on NO

PHASE 18 — Final launch

  1. Empty your Recycle Bin
  2. Restart your PC — you've just installed forty plugins and edited thirty config files
  3. Click RagePluginHook on the taskbar
  4. Immediately hold Left Shift until the settings window appears
  5. Plugins → Load These Plugins on Startup → Check All
  6. Load All Plugins on Startup
  7. Save and Launch

If you spawn as a civilian, in an apartment, or in the shower: F4 → type forceduty → Tab → Enter

If LSPDFR is missing from the pause menu: F4 → type reloadall → Tab → Enter

Then load your weapons: F3 → Weapons → Weapons Load Save Menu → Load All Weapons Slot 1

One-time in-game setup

Two things that aren't in any config file and are easy to miss.

ELS coronas

Out of the box, stage 1 and stage 2 lighting look completely dead — you'd reasonably assume ELS was broken.

Get in your ELS vehicle, turn the lights off, then hold Left Alt and tap 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 repeatedly until each counter reaches 30. Thirty is the maximum; 6 does nothing.

Stage 1 and 2 now have visible lights. You only ever do this once.

Add the radar gun to your weapon wheel

  1. Load your weapons first — F3 → Weapons → Weapons Load Save Menu → Load All Weapons Slot 1
  2. F3 → Weapons → scroll to Vintage Pistol → add it
  3. Weapons Load Save Menu → Save All Weapons to Slot 1

Load before saving, or you'll overwrite the slot with an empty loadout.

Verifying it worked

Launch and check each of these. If one fails, the fix is almost always in that mod's own config.

Check How
LSPDFR loaded LSPDFR tab in the pause menu
Plugins loaded No errors in the RagePluginHook console (F4)
Weapons F3 → load slot 1 → weapon wheel is populated, flashlights attached
ELS Right Control + P, then Backspace — box appears. J cycles three light stages
Callout Interface F10 opens. Postal code visible near the minimap
Simple HUD B opens. Street, zone, county and clock on screen
Grammar Police Hold 0, say "Dispatch, show me 10-41" — dispatch replies
Compulite Hold X during a traffic stop
Stop The Ped E at a stopped vehicle opens the interaction menu
Ultimate Backup U opens the backup menu
Spotlight Left Control + S
Speed radar Left Control + I
LIAR Numpad 1

If something's wrong

Nothing loads at all. Script Hook V doesn't match your GTA build. This is behind most "LSPDFR is broken" posts — check the version and get the matching one. Nothing else will work until this does.

Callout Interface stopped working. Something overwrote CalloutInterface.ApplicationExtension.dll or IPTCommon.dll. Reinstall Callout Interface and redo its config, then never replace those two files again.

Grammar Police doesn't understand you. Windows Settings → Sound → Input isn't set to your actual microphone.

Two things fire on one key. Compare against the tables above — the whole point of these specific values is that nothing collides.

Numpad binds do nothing. Num Lock is off.

Textures flickering or missing. Confirm Main Preload Models = false in LSPDFR.ini, and that Resource Adjuster is in your game root.

Game crashed and you want to know why. Read RagePluginHook.log in your game directory. It names the plugin that failed and usually why.

A mod is misbehaving badly. Delete its .dll from plugins, launch, confirm the problem's gone, then reinstall it fresh.

Complete keybind reference

Core

Key Action
F3 Simple Trainer
F4 RagePluginHook console — never rebind
Left Shift Start traffic stop
B (hold) Initiate pursuit
N Pursuit menu
Y Accept callout
E Interact / Stop The Ped menu
E ×2 Detain — suspect kneels
E (hold) Takedown — suspect prone
I Arrest / stop ped / traffic stop interact
Q Frisk (vanilla)
G Vehicle & equipment menu
F9 Quick search
Delete Teleport to waypoint

Vehicle & lighting

Key Action
J ×1/2/3 ELS light stages
1–5 Sirens · 1 then 6 = dual
R / T Manual siren
E / Y Horn
Left Alt + 1–5 Corona setup — repeat to 30
Right Control + P ELS box
C Engine off
V Cycle camera → dash cam
Left Control + I Remote dash cam view
Left Control + S Spotlight
F6 Spotlight editor
Left Control + W Custom Pullover
Left Control + R Pullover mimic
Left Control + T Pullover follow / quick grab
Left Shift + D Delete vehicle
Period (hold) Window down

Radio & HUD

Key Action
0 (number row) Grammar Police talk
F8 Grammar Police interface
F7 Grammar Police settings
Left Control + F7 Display settings
Left Control + F8 Ten codes
Left Control + O Radio
M Interaction menu — radio position, walk style
F10 Callout Interface
NumPad 7 MDT · hold for status arrow
D ALPR toggle
B Simple HUD menu
X (hold) Compulite
Left Shift + X Give citation

Tools

Key Action
NumPad 1 LIAR radar gun · hold for menu
Left Control + I Speed radar
Left Shift + I / O Radar threshold up / down
Left Control + Home Radar direction
U Ultimate Backup
Left Shift + H Call / dismiss helicopter
Left Control + H Helicopter menu
F11 Bait Car
Insert Bait car kill switch
Left Shift + F2 Immersive Effects
K Screenshot camera
F7 Open All Interiors blips
Tab Skin Control
Left Control + T / Y Clipboard / notepad
Left Shift + E Restrain downed suspect
Enter (hold) Dismiss all units
Backspace (hold) Speed up backup arrival

Controller

Input Action
Left stick click Lights / horn
D-pad left ×3 ELS stages
D-pad down, then B Sirens
D-pad right Interact
D-pad right ×2 Detain
D-pad right (hold) Takedown
Up on D-pad (aimed) Mark pursuit target
D-pad left Frisk / K9 search
Right stick click Engine off
X Tackle · crawl behind cover
A Sprint boost
T / D-pad up + X Partner into vehicle
U (hold) Dismiss partner
Select / Back Cycle camera

For how to actually use all of this in game — traffic stops, searches, evidence testing, backup, K9, jail — see the Operations Manual.