how to make cars more varied in streets?

[Supra4]

I still think this is bullsh*t.

 

I had 2 gigs a month ago, and now 4 gigs. It didnt change anything in the frequency of cars..

Probably because the game has a maximum memory usage limit hardcoded into it, just like San andreas had. If that's the case, a memory hack should sort that out.

[Digital_Utopia]

I still think this is bullsh*t.

 

I had 2 gigs a month ago, and now 4 gigs. It didnt change anything in the frequency of cars..

Probably because the game has a maximum memory usage limit hardcoded into it, just like San andreas had. If that's the case, a memory hack should sort that out.

It really doesn't matter. GTA IV is a 32-bit program, so the maximum RAM (normal RAM, not GPU RAM) it can use is 3.5gb. Beyond that it relies on the GPU memory. You could conceivably put 16gb of RAM in your computer, and it wouldn't make a difference. Unless of course you had a 64-bit version of windows, and then you could probably run every single app you have installed at once - in addition to GTA IV, but GTA IV (and every other 32-bit program) would only use up to 3.5gb.

[Pedro84]

The reason it only spawns taxis is because there is not enough free memory (RAM) to keep more vehicles stored (I think). The game must always loads taxis and police cars, so it loads those first before any other vehicle. Of course, if the player was in a vehicle recently or is in a vehicle, that vehicle has been stored in the memory, so it will use that vehicle too. I think it's the normal RAM, and not the VRAM, but you should have atleast 512MB of VRAM anyway. It only loads new vehicles to use as traffic if it has enough free space on the memory. Remember, the game must keep alot of RAM free for other things too, so it can't use all of your RAM just for vehicles.

 

This is an extended explanation of "THIS IS SOMETHING TO DO WITH MEMORY". It's probably been said before in this thread, in different words, of course.

I still think this is bullsh*t.

 

I had 2 gigs a month ago, and now 4 gigs. It didnt change anything in the frequency of cars..

This is total bullsh*t.

 

I got not 2, but 16 GB of RAM memory...

 

Sometimes, I see only 20-30 taxis on the street, any chance to change it?

[ZZCOOL]

try trafficflow or traffic fix to kill the taxi bug may work

[Sm0kiT]

 

I've been dl'ing and using several fan made cars but I noticed that it somehow screwed the variation of cars in the streets  most noticeable is that I've seen entire street occupied only by taxis    holy sh*t, yea lots of taxis!

 

or else, if I am using a car then suddenly people using the same cars as mine.....

 

that's ruining the experience

 

now I've been tried to use .ide editor, but TBH I don't know what parameters need to be changed?

 

for example

 

what is frequency, what does it mean if a car have 100 freq vs those who have 30?

 

I assumed that the bigger the number the more often that car will appear in streets, but in reality it's not, so many cars have 100 frequency but some of them rarely seen.

 

what is max number?

 

then what are those in flags? noboot, ext conv, isvan, truck firefx, etc I need the complete explanation about this.

 

then what is vehicle shares?

 

I just want a more reasonable and varied cars in the streets.

 

please help me

 

so what about the explanation of the vehicles.ide. i would be very much interested in that