Better LOD config

Description

This mod is just a customsettings.ini that i edited to reduce the frequency of pop in. Compatible with all three games. Lights, statics, landscapes etc should all be at their highest quality at all times.

Unfortunately the crappy low detail LOD for upstate in Liberty City seems to be the highest available. This config file doesn't fix that.

Important!

Make sure to change the value Traffic=2 to Traffic=3 in the file GameUserSettings.ini ! This forces the game to use the highest default traffic levels. The variables in the downloaded file are multipliers of this default value. If you do not want your games to be basically empty of cars you will either need to make this change or remove the values in the "Known Issues" section immediately below this one.

Known Issues

• [](All Games) Vehicle and Pedestrian Density is Lower

  Increasing the draw distance of the vehicles and people drastically decreases their density. To compensate there are variables that increase density, but they cause the game to crash above certain values. These games likely still need a "Limit Adjuster" or comparable mod to affect these changes. If one ever releases for the DE I will remove or adjust these entries as needed.

  • []III - I am still testing this one, but it seems to be more forgiving, yet the changes are less noticeable (I bet that is related)

    []Vice City - the game will hard crash if you increase the density too much to compensate for draw distance

    []San Andreas - the game can handle increased peds just fine, but at a certain point cars disappear. But on the whole it handles things better than VC

    To default the vehicles just comment out or delete these lines:

    gta.cars.density

    gta.cars.distance

    • (VC / all? ) North Point Mall - Crash During Mission "Rub Out" (Probably at other points of all games, I just haven't been able to test)

    This is directly related to the above issue. Fixing that caused the game to start crashing inside of some buildings during missions. When it happens just comment out / delete these two lines, and then undo it after the mission.

    gta.peds.distance

    gta.peds.density

    Or you can leave them commented out and have default pedestrian draw distance and density.

    Performance

    !! The foliage settings will hit your performance

    !!

    In the woods of San Andreas particularly. I have a beastly rig and ha