I've been using traffic flow because the taxi thing is very annoying. But upon using traffic flow, it will work fine for a while, then soon the buildings and roads start to disappear, I've tried the fixes people say for this and all they do is buy some time. Anyone got any good alternatives to traffic flow for me?

THanks

I think the textures disappearing is not directly related to TrafficFlow but in your case might have been triggered by it, this problem happens on my laptop when car mods are installed, it is due to their high poly count(very high detail) the game cannot allocate enough memory, I would recommended removing car mods until you get a more powerful computer or upgrade it, if you must have car mods then I would recommended Minimem it can postpone the loss of textures for 10-30 minutes.

Ok thanks, it doesn't happen when traffic flow isn't installed when using lcpdfr. And doesn't happen at all when I'm in normal gameplay.

Edited April 23, 201114 yr by cheezy

I think the textures disappearing is not directly related to TrafficFlow but in your case might have been triggered by it, this problem happens on my laptop when car mods are installed, it is due to their high poly count(very high detail) the game cannot allocate enough memory, I would recommended removing car mods until you get a more powerful computer or upgrade it, if you must have car mods then I would recommended Minimem it can postpone the loss of textures for 10-30 minutes.

I have 8GB of RAM on my machine, and yet sometimes the textures will stop loading. It hasn't done it in over a week, but I still don't know what causes it. I'm pretty sure my computer can handle it.

On a side note, my RAM usage can be at about 25% after a boot, but if I go to standby and then wake my computer, it drops to about 13% usage. Think this little thing with Windows could play into the texture problem? Perhaps running GTA IV after a standby would fix it.... but I digress.

It's caused by NVidia, all the NVidia cards do that. ATI cards have no such problem.

It's caused by NVidia, all the NVidia cards do that. ATI cards have no such problem.

Yeah, you might be right. I have an ATI card and have never encountered either the taxi problem or the "OMFG WHERE MAH BUILDINGS AND TEXTURE GO" problem.

It is not helped by the fact that it is poorly optimized, i mean the PS3s GPU was co-developed by NVIDIA and it does not do happen on that.

Yeah, you might be right. I have an ATI card and have never encountered either the taxi problem or the "OMFG WHERE MAH BUILDINGS AND TEXTURE GO" problem.

I think just about every system can encounter the taxi problem. It only happens when you install large car mods though.

To test this, I have used my neighbour's gaming computer (roughly the same as mine, except he has an ATI card), I just copy-pasted my mods in his game, if you see what I mean. Nothing went wrong and after roughly 1+ hours of playing, everything was still in place.

Taxis were not a problem.

ah freakin nvidia

I wouldn't say it's NVidia's fault. In the end, Rockstar Games didn't take any time to make any changes when porting the game to PC from PS3. While we all know that PS3 works well, it's because GTAIV was made for it, hence why on PC, there are lots of memory leaks, and still no fix. Another fun fact: Rockstar will not ever fix this because they don't endorse modifying their game, they hate that. Now, I just hope that they didn't add a memory leak if the models were changed, on purpose... that would be a failure, totally.

Remember, it's not much of a surprise, they tried the same with GTASA.