CanadianLaw

Hello, I hope this is the right forum for this
 
I will just get straight to the point, I love adding new stuff to my game, and often have issues with crashes. My usual first response is to delete the new thing I added, or ask somebody to read my crash report. I was wondering how to read these on my own, for my sake and for the poor guys who have to read them and end up finding obvious stuff. If anybody want to take the time to teach me how to read Rage Hook crash reports and recognize errors. I am a fast learner and I'm sure it won't take way too long.
 
Thank you to anybody who will take the time to teach me.
 

Looks amazing.. now what you should do is add a tracking bar so we could see where you guys are and what you have left until the update 😀 *hint hint*

delete all the police cars from your patchday15 and start adding them one by one naming them there proper names such as "police,police2,police3" then load your game if that dosent work take a screen shot of your patchday15/openIV shit and upload it here

Okay, I had this issue and found out my error. This is a very simple thing you may have missed, like myself, all it is, is try to make sure that your mods folder has the actual update folder in it, not the contents of the update folder. If that does not make sense, make sure when going into your mods folder, you see an update folder, not the other 2. 

Hope this works buddy.

With mods like Realistic Radiance, RadianceV, and the others that make your emergency lights brighter, what values are they actually changing? I've found that tweaking these two values to your liking can achieve identical, or at least similar results.
 
car.defaultlight.day.emissive.on
car.defaultlight.night.emissive.on
 
I've been playing with those values to get what I consider to be some bright emergency lights during the day and night and have come up with some values that I think work pretty well. So are these mods only changing those values? I wouldn't mind having some brighter reflections off the walls and surrounding area, but I'm not sure which value that is, and I'm not sure if the above mentioned mods modify that, or just the two values I mentioned.

Looking to change things up with my siren just to hear something different, and was curious what the most commonly used police siren was across America. Is there one that seems to be used more than others? Also, which siren do you like the best? 

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