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It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

There is no VCPDFR. And if there is one, it's not made by G17 Media. 

Only seen this topic now, but:
 
You have a good point! We definitely need badges going back much much longer considering how long we've been around for at this point! I'll look into making epic shiny badges for some greater milestones
 
It's hopeful to think about how LSPDFR and this site have inspired careers in law enforcement, and even otherwise, that people have had fun with us over the years!
 
Here's to many more!

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

Hi everyone,
The last day or so I haven't been playing the game's story line as most of you are (I've already played through it a few times on the old versions), instead I've devoted my time to observing the game's graphic options and characteristics. In general, seeing what I can do to squeeze the best graphics out of it with the best FPS possible. After doing countless reboots and benchmark testing, I've found a few helpful things. 
Not all of us are able to afford expensive computers, but that doesn't mean you can't enable higher quality graphics.
As of now, I am able to run the game on Ultra (1080 resolution) with 40 fps average, sometimes higher. Though on the advanced graphics menu, I have all enabled except the extended distance/shadow sliders all the way down.
My hardware:
Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.2 Ghz
 EVGA GTX 680 Superclocked (2 GB)
 12 GB of RAM.
I consider my rig at least mid grade or entry level high end.
All in all, I've found several ways to increase performance:
Run in Borderless Window mode. This allows you to turn off VSync, and you also won't have any screen tearing. Easy FPS boost. On the Population Variety Slider, feel free to move it down. This is a very VRAM hungry option. I believe it has to do with the amount of extras on Peds, such as backpacks or items in general, or the variety of vehicles on the street. If I'm wrong please correct me. I moved it down and noticed little to no difference. Use your sacred VRAM on something more useful! Additionally, if anyone is experiencing random performance drops (such as the game locking up, super low 1-5 fps out of the norm) this is likely caused because of overloading. Decrease this to ease your VRAM. I personally suffered from this and decreased the slider to the near bottom (2 notches) and no longer experienced this.  NVIDIA cards - Use FXAA instead of MSAA. While it may not look as good, it has nearly no performance cost and I can't really see any difference. Additionally, enable it through your control panel rather than in-game for more FXAA options (different levels mostly), while in game you only have one option, which I assume is 16x. AMD cards should also use their equivalent if they want to increase performance. 
NVIDIA cards - Go to the NVIDIA control panel. Enable Threaded Optimization, set Maximum pre-rendered frames to 3, and under power management mode, select Prefer maximum performance.  Additional note: You may select "Ignore Suggested Limits" to On in the in-game graphic settings menu. This allows you to exceed your VRAM limit. I'm personally around 800 MB over my limit and suffer no issues in regards to performance. For those of you who want the most out of this game graphically, I suggest you do the same.  If you prefer to have VSync for any reason, don't enable it in game. Instead, do it through you graphic card's control panel. Along with this, enable Triple Buffering. This helps increase performance while VSync is enabled.  Overclocking:
Note: Overclock at your own risk. I am NOT responsible for any damage caused to your card. You have been warned! 
Download the program for your respective card. For us NVIDIA users, I recommend EVGA Precision X. 
I was able to increase GPU CLOCK OFFSET by 42 MHz, and MEM CLOCK OFFSET by 115 MHz. I have not gone any higher, nor do I plan to as I found the sweet spot for my card. Pushing your card too far may cause overheating, instability, game crashes, and possible damage. You may also increase the fan curve and voltage. Don't mess with voltage unless you know what you're doing. 

I hope this helps many of you and you can enjoy this amazing game to its highest potential. Also, a special thanks to Murphy and Sniper296 for aiding my research. 
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reply,
Nick 
 

Noticed I received my one year in badge the other day. I'm curious though, where is my 12 years in badge? 😉 Joking. 

Jokes aside it's so nice to see this community still around and cool to still see some names I recognize from the lcpdfr days. I can only imagine how many dreams this mod inspired and facilitated, and if you wanna go deeper how many lives the mod has saved? Here's to those that have been around since the olden days, one for the ones here now, one for the ones who didn't make it to today, and one for the future supporters. 

Godspeed fellow humans! 

No way to know until 1) the game is released and 2) the game exists on PC.
 
There were similar discussions around GTA V before it was released, that it would be hard to mod, Rockstar hates modders etc etc, but in the end, it all... kind of... worked out. 

There's about 78,000 pictures of LAPD cars and equipment on flickr.com from various dates. You can filter image "taken on" dates by clicking "Advanced" and "Date taken". So, for example, you can make it display pictures only taken between 2001 and 2007.
 
I've done a lot of searching before, and I don't believe I've seen an LAPD Caprice in service past 2003 or 2004. They didn't keep them in service that long.

The latest picture I could find of an LAPD Caprice was photographed on March 1st, 2008:
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/southerncalifornian/2311889844
 
I'm not sure if it was already decommissioned in that picture, but the poster referred to it as a likely "boneyard" for retired vehicles.
 
For an example of a Caprice that was definitely confirmed to be in service in the later 00's (for a large city) the NYPD had one in service in 2006: 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14968334@N00/142469658
 
Other vehicles from the older years you're looking for can be found on flickr, but I most commonly see the Crown Victoria being used in 2004, to answer your question. The LAPD never really experimented with tons of makes and models, as the NYPD did. 

There's about 78,000 pictures of LAPD cars and equipment on flickr.com from various dates. You can filter image "taken on" dates by clicking "Advanced" and "Date taken". So, for example, you can make it display pictures only taken between 2001 and 2007.
 
I've done a lot of searching before, and I don't believe I've seen an LAPD Caprice in service past 2003 or 2004. They didn't keep them in service that long.

The latest picture I could find of an LAPD Caprice was photographed on March 1st, 2008:
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/southerncalifornian/2311889844
 
I'm not sure if it was already decommissioned in that picture, but the poster referred to it as a likely "boneyard" for retired vehicles.
 
For an example of a Caprice that was definitely confirmed to be in service in the later 00's (for a large city) the NYPD had one in service in 2006: 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14968334@N00/142469658
 
Other vehicles from the older years you're looking for can be found on flickr, but I most commonly see the Crown Victoria being used in 2004, to answer your question. The LAPD never really experimented with tons of makes and models, as the NYPD did. 

Hello there!
I've been trying for a long time to find information about the LAPD's vehicle history. For example, the 4th gen Chevrolet Caprice - how long was it used by the LAPD? Was it still in use around 2004? Apart from the legendary Ford Crown Victoria and the typical Suburban, what other vehicles were used in 2004?
I appreciate any help or information you can provide!

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

It's probably a bit random, but is anyone else wondering if UFOs and some of the in-game mysteries and conspiracy stuff will make a reappearance? I'm hoping so, it would be cool to see what they could do considering it's more modern. I'm remembering staying up reading about the mysteries in San Andreas, the Big Foot stuff in particular and the weird glitches that could happen with gangs if you flew too far out.

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

I missed 1  another screen shot from the police in the trailer 

that's at least 4 different police skins  and by looks of it 3 different police departments

Sheriff - state/highway patrol - & local maybe 

also 4 types of Car's
- crown vic ?
- Ford Explorer
- 2 Dodge Charger variants ?
- Ford taurus

I would cry. I hope Rockstar realizes the market share PC now holds and just don't try to do the double dip again. I'm at the point my life now that as bad as I wanna play GTA 6, I'm not buying a whole new console just for it. 

*sigh* This is an inevitable post, but for those following the topic it (I guess) came a day early.
 
 

So after through personal examination I found some facts and things in the trailer we many agencies and locations  
 

So I found some new things
We go the Highway Patrol which is going to be the Leonida Highway Patrol LHP based of FHP as of right now it seems they only got the R&B and B&B slicktop hellcats 

Then we got Different sheriff Departments Including Leonard County Sheriff Based on Bowered County Sheriff and then the Kelly County Sheriff

The Kelly County sheriff is going to be the charger in the middle and on the sides seems to be the Vice City police based on Maimi 

And then some few more things including a seal based on the Florida Seal

And cant forget the new possible police mod built in with bodycam?

Another thing I want to talk about is the locations map is suppose to be huge including places we can see in the trailer for starters we got there everglades 

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

It looks great! I'm super stoked.
 
The attention to detail for the number of different law enforcement agencies and vehicles is especially impressive. 

A user in this reddit topic reuploaded the most recent version to Google Drive, look for it in the comments. I'm using it with no issues.
 
 

A user in this reddit topic reuploaded the most recent version to Google Drive, look for it in the comments. I'm using it with no issues.
 
 

The real over thinkers would put DMA Design

I noticed this morning. Interesting times for sure, especially for a company so normally secretive.