7. The Mods Folder Part 2

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Here is a step by step installation guide, done manually so you can familiarize yourself with the file and folder structure.

Step 1. We create a sub folder called Update inside the Mods folder. It will look, depending on your own installation, something like this:

Grand Theft Auto V\Mods\update

Step 2. We now create a sub folder called x64 inside the Update folder. It will look, depending on your own installation, something like this:

Grand Theft Auto V\Mods\update\x64\

Step 3. We create a sub folder called dlcpacks inside the x64 folder. It will look, depending on your own installation, something like this:

Grand Theft Auto V\Mods\update\x64\dlcpacks

Step 4. We go back to our folder called Update inside the Mods folder. There we are going to copy update.rpf from the game to our Update sub folder.

It will look, depending on your own installation, that we are copying from this folder:

Grand Theft Auto V\update\update.rpf

To this folder:

Grand Theft Auto V\Mods\update.rpf 

 The screenshot below, cropped from OpenIV, hopefully is worth a thousand words. The Mods folder contains an Update sub folder which itself contains the x64 subfolder and a file to be discussed in our next article called update.rpf. Inside x64 we have a sub folder called dlcpacks where you will install your addon mods for example MyNewCar. Each of those addon mod folders will contain a file called dlc.rpf.

Note: In the videos you may have noticed files such as x64e.rpf or x64a.rpf in the update folder. These files are optional but may be required by certain mods. You can copy them all, or you can wait until they are needed to save disk space.

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Next let's do a Quick Review of our Installations so far


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