@JulioNIB Love it

@RAPJECT The latest version was 3.4.1 at June. It might be even higher now.

@brettt777 You need a modified gameconfig. The amount of addon cars that can be added to the game is quite vast but yeah, you need to have a good gameconfig.

If you are looking a simple and lightweight gameconfig, F7YO's is good. But if you plan on using heavy mods then you gonna need finely tuned gameconfigs. NVE has one included in it and it's free now, you can try out

@trivo What to do? Well the answer to that is "Not to install outdated scripts."

Singleplayer Garage Reloaded, that mod is being updated.
But Premium Deluxe Motorsport, last updated is 2 years ago... I mean, a lot has changed since then

Also if you just look at the comments, you can see many others mentioning the square blips too along with other type of bugs. The people can play with outdated scripts are most most probably have their game not updated for a very long time, or the script mod is just either made too perfectly or it's so basic that new updates don't break it...

@Roguematt You are welcome If you ever can discover anything by any chance, please let me know I also would very much want to have this too

@meimeiriver You are quite right on that point True it's also wrong to scare people too especially when it came to newbies as they might just decide not to mess with it at all So my apologies if I gave too much scare with my post That wasn't my intention of course and I didn't even think it from that perspective.

But yeah, of course it also comes down to how much trusting too as anything someone installs to their pc can be potentionally harmful too so we need a bit of courage while doing it and perhaps if not sure, can wait a while to see how others comment as if something works great very little would leave a feedback but if it's not working properly they would clutter the comments instantly

@Roguematt Unfortunately since most of the stuff are hardcoded to model names, the only way to be recognized as Michael is renaming the addon ped's files to player_zero (as you already did). and there isn't any other way in game files to make a secondary ped to be recognized as Michael same goes for other 2 as well ..

It's sad that so many stuff are model name hardcoded though .. Like only the vehicle that has it's name taxi can act as a real functional taxi and only the vehicle that has it's name fbi can spawn with 4 law enforcement peds inside... No meta or ymt edits allow this

@meimeiriver said in Real Dangers of OpenIV OIV Files:

So, . OIV cannot wipe your entire harddisk! Besides, assembly.xml is not obfuscated in any way. Anyone with enough brainscells to rub together, can rename the .OIV to .ZIP, and inspect the contents for themselves.

So umm, , I don't understand why people started comparing this OpenIV flaw with Quant No normal person in the world could even try to deny a full hard drive wipe is much more dangerous than a full game folder wipe so why the compare?

No one can actually think about renaming OIV to zip if they are not aware OIVs are just a different form of zip files. I mean .exe files are also contain lots of data that are packed inside a single file too but you can't just simply extract them, sure there are ways to do but first you need to first know what exactly are they then need to learn how to decompile or extract them...

Like I said before, my post was meant for people who are new to modding community. I can easily consider myself as an experienced modder and mod user but until I saw the news of quant I could have never thought an .asi file could wipe hard drives.
I learned scripts can cause damages (don't know the full extend) only from lspdfr when I saw the warning while downloading my first script mod from there some years ago.
So after I had my personally customized ENB and ReShade presets got wiped out when I was first installed Quant 2.0, that was the day I realized OpenIV can do that. So I asked myself, why there was no warning, I asked OpenIV team why there was no warning, and their response was "We'll investigate this issue.". and this was 2 years ago.

After these experiences and knowledges kept building up and then the Quant incident, I remembered my past sad experience with Quant 2.0 and wanted to know what else you can do with OIV files and it all went to the being able to deleting gta 5 folder all together.
So just as I was being warned and informed by my first script download, I decided to inform everyone else who didn't know about this flaw.

Sure there are many who wouldn't fall to a shit like that but I also know many who would pay others to make automated installers. Do those ignorant lazy people deserves to be punished, that's debetable. But I merely tried to inform them as well which perhaps (and hopefully) it can also encourage them to learn more about modding

So long story short, if anyone was already aware of this and taking precautions not to fall into it, that's wonderful, that's what I'm trying to offer to everyone and if there is anyone who wasn't aware of this, then this post made for you. You can either learn from it or decide to ignore it and leave the rest to your luck, up to you I believe I did my best part to help the community with this post

After like 4 years of playing with mods and creating small mods, I must say I feel myself experienced but my knowledge is still just a fraction I am still learning more and more stuff every time I try something new, sometimes even when I repeat the same things I did It's just an ocean wide of info

Also I hope I didn't offend anyone, just tried to explain my intentions and perhaps a bit of point of view too

@Reyser Well once they know the full knowledge of how OIV files work and what can they cause, they can by all means go ahead with it. I'm sure people with that knowledge wouldn't really avoid installing OIV anyway, me also time to time refer to OIV if the amount of files are too much. Someone was made OIV installer of one of the mods of Nik The Greek and I was happy to use it

Sure they can learn it from the hard way too but I merely tried to help people to learn it from the easy way There are some other gta 5 mod sites and I doubt their moderators care about these as much as you guys do. Some still actually cares but I seen many broken mods haven't taken any action despite countless of comments and reports

So like @JohnFromGWN , my comments were made for newbies, although I guess I should have stated this at the beginning to clear any misunderstandings too, my bad there

@JohnFromGWN I hope these can shed some light on people especially the newbies so they won't get their games destroyed