Before starting just wanted to say hi, and im new to the forums and hoping someone can help me out.

 

While playing gta 4 LCPDFR lots of random events happen, like ambulances and police cars responding and stuff which typically would be fine but - the police/ambulance/fire vehicles wont despawn! The cars get abandoned by the AI's after the random event is over, and it leaves the ELS on and keeps the police cars/ambulances sirens on and VERY loud. It's very frustrating because while patrolling around the same general area you can constantly hear sirens from abandoned cars. I actually have to play it by ear and find the cars, then turn off the siren, which gets very annoying when it happens as frequently as it does. I've tried driving far away from the cars and coming back hoping they would despawn but they just dont. I've seen other peoples videos and they dont ever have this problem, what could be causing this? The only modifications I have installed are LCPDFR, ELS and TowTruck mod. I'd appreciate help from anyone and would gladly elaborate further if needed, thanks!

What version of ELS? In older versions, cars with ELS activated will never despawn. This was fixed in ELS V7 and carried over to ELS V8. You can change the range that cars with ELS activated will be discarded with these settings in ELS.ini: 

 

Els_Range_Pl = 800

Els_Range_Ai = 500

 

You would change the numbers to a distance (in meters) of your choosing. "_Pl" is for player vehicles and "_Ai" is for AI vehicles. The minimum distance is 50 meters and the maximum is 5000.

 

What version of ELS? In older versions, cars with ELS activated will never despawn. This was fixed in ELS V7 and carried over to ELS V8. You can change the range that cars with ELS activated will be discarded with these settings in ELS.ini: 

 

Els_Range_Pl = 800

Els_Range_Ai = 500

 

You would change the numbers to a distance (in meters) of your choosing. "_Pl" is for player vehicles and "_Ai" is for AI vehicles. The minimum distance is 50 meters and the maximum is 5000.

 

Thanks! I'll do a patrol with the settings lowered and tell you if I see any improvement.

Thanks! I'll do a patrol with the settings lowered and tell you if I see any improvement.

Here is the followup: Everything worked great and despawned properly by decreasing the "Els_range_Ai" to 100! Thanks so much for your help.