GTA IV: Complete Edition - how to restore original music (by reverting to a 2016 version of the game)

This will restore the original soundtrack, including Schweine - Glukoza in the first mission of GTA IV.

How to revert the game to an old version

There are many guides to patch the game but unfortunately, due to the way CE works is that EFLC's songs for each radio station will play in GTA4 too for those radio stations, instead of the vanilla songs (the radio stations are shared). The only way to get it the way it should be (with Schweine - Glukoza playing in the first mission) is this:


Step 1: Make sure you have the game installed, delete the pc folder, and make a backup of the files in the root folder, you'll need the ones from the newest version, otherwise the old version's securom will prevent you from launching the game

Step 2: Install .net core sdk

Step 3: Download DepotDownloader, place it on a partition/hard drive where you have a lot of free space, and then use DepotDownloader (from cmd) to download GTA4 version 1.0.8.0 (latest version with the original soundtrack included; it's from November 30, 2016):

depotdownloader -app 12210 -depot 12211 -manifest 4406763129603688303 -username yourusername -password yourpassword

Note: You can't use the depotdownloader trick for EFLC because they removed your EFLC license from your Steam account when they merged the 4&EFLC into CE, so your only choice would be to use a backup of the old 1130 version if you have it somewhere, either from a retail version or from an old Steam installation.

The app will ask for your steam guard code sent to your email or mobile authenticator. After you write it (careful, no spaces), it will download the files inside a folder called depots.
(don't try this via the old method using the console, it doesn't work anymore)

Step 4: Move the contents (only the folders, not the files in the root directory!!!) of the GTAIV folder that you can find inside into your GTAIV folder from SteamLibrary. (overwrite everything since you should already have the game installed)

Step 5: In your steam library, right-click GTA 4 Complete, Properties, Updates and choose Only update this game when I launch it (it might be possible now to avoid updates if you launch steam in offline mode, and then switch to online after it's already running, but this is untested; or you can just follow A_Sweatband's instructions from his/her comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/8f5j2p/grand_theft_auto_iv_music_cut_patch_over_50_songs/).
In case that post ever gets deleted, I'll copy-paste what it says here:

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Go to appmanifest_12210.acf for base game and 12220 for Episodes and change the following so they look like this, in both (I used notepad++, as normal notepad can be strange or cause problems when editing certain extensions):

"StateFlags" to "4"

and

"AutoUpdateBehavior" to "1"

If you can't find them, they are steamapps folder before you go into common, so steam\steamapps

Close Steam, make them read-only, and restart Steam. The updates will no longer download. GTA IV will never be able to update again, but that's the price you pay.
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(You could also just rename the game folder when an update is available, let Steam update it and then delete the new folder and rename the old one back the way it was)

If you need a video guide on how to do step 3, check this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wixg_vAHwxs

The game will now play the correct song in the first mission, but only if you don't skip the cutscene. This might still not enable MP via GFWL. You will still be able to get achievements though (tested)!

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