Mulleboy Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Hey. I've already completed GTA:IV .. twice. But I've never seen anything like this, recently the game has started cloning cars like crazy, meaning it'll only generate up to 5 or 6 new car-models to be shown on the city street. It's really annoying to see a police car on every corner and 100 ice-cream trucks. Anyone got some kind of commandline.txt for this or anythin? It's super-annoying. Playing with these as my commandlines: -availablevidmem 2.0 -novblank -norestrict -nomemrestrict On ver 1.01 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahm3dS Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Muahaha. reinstall - dont apply the patch - remove all commands from commandline.. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058836816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Eh, how do you prevent the patch from being installed? Isnt it auto-installed? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058837052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benfp Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 No it's not as long as you own a DVD retail version. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058837065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voxal Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 had something like that but when i noticed that adding 1 additional gig of ram helped a lot and variety returned Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058837438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelated Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Hey. I've already completed GTA:IV .. twice.But I've never seen anything like this, recently the game has started cloning cars like crazy, meaning it'll only generate up to 5 or 6 new car-models to be shown on the city street. It's really annoying to see a police car on every corner and 100 ice-cream trucks. Anyone got some kind of commandline.txt for this or anythin? It's super-annoying. Playing with these as my commandlines: -availablevidmem 2.0 -novblank -norestrict -nomemrestrict On ver 1.01 This is likely a memory issue. PLEASE, PLEASE post your Operating System and Hardware Configuration if you really want help. Believe it or not a lot can be determined just from looking at you specs. This could be do to the fact that you maybe only have 1GB of RAM or it could be do to the fact that you're telling you're video card to trick GTA IV into thinnking you have twice the VRAM that you actually do. Using commands when you don't know the benefit\side effects is the reason why a lot of people are having problems. They're essentially creating new problems for themselves. Why are you using the command -availablevidmem=2.0? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058838517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 Aight, here's my specs: 2GB DDR2 Dual-Channel (2x1GB) Intel Core2Duo E4300 (1.8GHz Standard, clocked to 3.01) Asus GeForce EN8800GTX 768MB (G80) Windows XP Professional SP3 Creative SoundBlaster Xtreme Music I'm not really sure why using avaliablevidmem, but even with it disabled I get the same effects in-game. For it to be any veriety in cars I have to make three laps around the city, and it still only clones the closest 10 cars or so, so I'm practically stuck with 5-6 cloned cars anywhere I go, it's like a damn curse. I didnt have the 1.01 patch installed, just the Windows Live update, so I tried installing the patch but all I got was a slight FPS increase of 2-5, but the cloned cars were still there. I'm going to remove avaliablevidmem and only use -novblank. Still, I can see that giving no improvement, we'll see. (Also, if it comes to the point where i'll just have to reinstall the game, can I save my savegames?) Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058840983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Oh man this is starting to get on ma nerves.. Now I'm stuck with Limos everywhere lol Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058846536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frodo baggins Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Good Lord you OC'ed a 1.8 to a 3.0? That's pretty impressive Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058846692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Good Lord you OC'ed a 1.8 to a 3.0? That's pretty impressive Yeah well, life-expectancy down from 10 to 2 years Planning on gettin another Duo soon, en E8400 though. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058847373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Cloning stopped when I got to Alderney, now it's back to normal. Frickin wierd man... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058848168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laport Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Good Lord you OC'ed a 1.8 to a 3.0? That's pretty impressive Yeah well, life-expectancy down from 10 to 2 years Planning on gettin another Duo soon, en E8400 though. my old pentium d805 2.66x2 @ 4.0 stable was impressive as well ^^ cache size sucks so it has to make up for it that way i guess anyway try -availablevidmem 0.85 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058848250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graven Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 (edited) Cloning stopped when I got to Alderney, now it's back to normal.Frickin wierd man... Sometimes when You steal a car it gets cloned like hell. Nice to see 20 of those rare cars in a row after You´ve been searching and searching But it´s not related to any hardware or patch. It´s in the game code. Afaik this was an issue in GTA SA too. Was not that visible tough. Edited January 5, 2009 by Graven Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058849126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 Cloning stopped when I got to Alderney, now it's back to normal.Frickin wierd man... Sometimes when You steal a car it gets cloned like hell. Nice to see 20 of those rare cars in a row after You´ve been searching and searching But it´s not related to any hardware or patch. It´s in the game code. Afaik this was an issue in GTA SA too. Was not that visible tough. Yeah that's my exact though aswell, I mean im used to the game cloning some cars but it was extreme a while back but now its pretty OK. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058850729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laport Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 ive had this problem as well (but i wasnt sure because irl nyc has a lot of cabs as well lol) turn on your tv in your safehouse, mine is showing 2 channels (changes a lot) and i can only change between those two no matter how long i change the channel it keeps switching between both. Sometimes its showing 3 or 4 channels but it always ends up switching between 2 channels. I didnt have this problem with my new memory (2x 2gb ddr3 corsair) but i did with my old memory (2x 512mb ddr2 corsair) even with extremely high page file settings. Im still not sure if that is what made the difference because ive been changing a lot of other things as well to my pc that i kind of lost track of all these tiny bugs because i was dedicated to fixing the freezes and crashes. Peace, laport Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058850899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasilyrud Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 ive had this problem as well (but i wasnt sure because irl nyc has a lot of cabs as well lol) turn on your tv in your safehouse, mine is showing 2 channels (changes a lot) and i can only change between those two no matter how long i change the channel it keeps switching between both. Sometimes its showing 3 or 4 channels but it always ends up switching between 2 channels. I didnt have this problem with my new memory (2x 2gb ddr3 corsair) but i did with my old memory (2x 512mb ddr2 corsair) even with extremely high page file settings. Im still not sure if that is what made the difference because ive been changing a lot of other things as well to my pc that i kind of lost track of all these tiny bugs because i was dedicated to fixing the freezes and crashes. Peace, laport There ARE . . . . . only TWO TV channels.....NO MORE...... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058850933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laport Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 ive had this problem as well (but i wasnt sure because irl nyc has a lot of cabs as well lol) turn on your tv in your safehouse, mine is showing 2 channels (changes a lot) and i can only change between those two no matter how long i change the channel it keeps switching between both. Sometimes its showing 3 or 4 channels but it always ends up switching between 2 channels. I didnt have this problem with my new memory (2x 2gb ddr3 corsair) but i did with my old memory (2x 512mb ddr2 corsair) even with extremely high page file settings. Im still not sure if that is what made the difference because ive been changing a lot of other things as well to my pc that i kind of lost track of all these tiny bugs because i was dedicated to fixing the freezes and crashes. Peace, laport There ARE . . . . . only TWO TV channels.....NO MORE...... when i last played it (borrowed a ps3 + gtaiv from a good friend of mine who bought the stuff but only uses the ps3 as a bluray player) it had a lot more channels. And sometimes with the pc version i can zap between 4 channels but i always end up with either knifes and the 2 homosexuals with their radio styled talkshow, or the cartoon and the knifes, or the fake vh1 channel with the money spending fools or the comedy channel with the standups from the theater, and the history channel (cartoon styled, very funny) Those cannot be 2 channels like you are saying, can they? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058850969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasilyrud Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 ive had this problem as well (but i wasnt sure because irl nyc has a lot of cabs as well lol) turn on your tv in your safehouse, mine is showing 2 channels (changes a lot) and i can only change between those two no matter how long i change the channel it keeps switching between both. Sometimes its showing 3 or 4 channels but it always ends up switching between 2 channels. I didnt have this problem with my new memory (2x 2gb ddr3 corsair) but i did with my old memory (2x 512mb ddr2 corsair) even with extremely high page file settings. Im still not sure if that is what made the difference because ive been changing a lot of other things as well to my pc that i kind of lost track of all these tiny bugs because i was dedicated to fixing the freezes and crashes. Peace, laport There ARE . . . . . only TWO TV channels.....NO MORE...... when i last played it (borrowed a ps3 + gtaiv from a good friend of mine who bought the stuff but only uses the ps3 as a bluray player) it had a lot more channels. And sometimes with the pc version i can zap between 4 channels but i always end up with either knifes and the 2 homosexuals with their radio styled talkshow, or the cartoon and the knifes, or the fake vh1 channel with the money spending fools or the comedy channel with the standups from the theater, and the history channel (cartoon styled, very funny) Those cannot be 2 channels like you are saying, can they? TV Channels 2 Channels, and about 6 programs on each channel....but only TWO channels: CNT and Weazel. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058850999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laport Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 ive had this problem as well (but i wasnt sure because irl nyc has a lot of cabs as well lol) turn on your tv in your safehouse, mine is showing 2 channels (changes a lot) and i can only change between those two no matter how long i change the channel it keeps switching between both. Sometimes its showing 3 or 4 channels but it always ends up switching between 2 channels. I didnt have this problem with my new memory (2x 2gb ddr3 corsair) but i did with my old memory (2x 512mb ddr2 corsair) even with extremely high page file settings. Im still not sure if that is what made the difference because ive been changing a lot of other things as well to my pc that i kind of lost track of all these tiny bugs because i was dedicated to fixing the freezes and crashes. Peace, laport There ARE . . . . . only TWO TV channels.....NO MORE...... when i last played it (borrowed a ps3 + gtaiv from a good friend of mine who bought the stuff but only uses the ps3 as a bluray player) it had a lot more channels. And sometimes with the pc version i can zap between 4 channels but i always end up with either knifes and the 2 homosexuals with their radio styled talkshow, or the cartoon and the knifes, or the fake vh1 channel with the money spending fools or the comedy channel with the standups from the theater, and the history channel (cartoon styled, very funny) Those cannot be 2 channels like you are saying, can they? TV Channels 2 Channels, and about 6 programs on each channel....but only TWO channels: CNT and Weazel. Thank you!! Sorry for my doubts but you gotta give to me that its hard to accept peace Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058851056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 Man I didnt even know you could watch TV... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058851127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
<Floyd> Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Man I didnt even know you could watch TV... mate your going to love mirrors, wait till ya see one you wont believe its you Any back to your topic...i know exactly what you mean, but as pixelated *said it is all about memory because it GTA keeps a certain amount of vehicles in memory. Thats why when you nick your first turismo...you see a row of them driving because GTA already has your car loaded, which make it faster to spawn Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058851145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulleboy Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 yeah, it's a shame though, they should've at least code in some kind of string to make it not spawn rare cars just cause you got one, Im tellin ya, they're such slackers... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058851443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch_Designs Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Man I didnt even know you could watch TV... Yep it's awesome too but i seemed to notice new shows the longer i played in the ps3 version like the first day i got it i watched every show on both channels then later in the game i saw new stuff that I didn't see the first time.... I could be wrong and was just really excited to have the game that first day but idk..... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058851467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
<Floyd> Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 yeah, it's a shame though, they should've at least code in some kind of string to make it not spawn rare cars just cause you got one, Im tellin ya, they're such slackers... 100% agreed, pisses me right of when you nick a sports car, get chased by the police for 5 mins, evade them, respray...then theres load of chums driving the same sports car as you EVERYWHERE!!!!!! I think this game will come into its own when the modding really kicks off Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/389602-cloned-cars/#findComment-1058851469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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