so did as you said and yes there was a few files in the 4960+ range which are all now set to 2048 or less haven't had time to run the game properly yet due to visitors but will try later another one for you though.

when i shoot someone or an object or car or any thing they fly off across the map as if they've been hit by a rocket can you shed any light on this one?
and yes i really am this stupid.

ok
im gonna be brutally honest here i have no idea how to do this.
How many of your add-on cars have 4K textures in their '.ytd' files? If there are a few (especially if you are saving a lot persistently), export the 4K textures & convert them to 2K/1K before replacing the originals, or in the case of liveries, maybe delete some if there are a lot in one car etc.

Do you know what this has just started to happen to me
only got 26 cars added on
im using the same as you and my pc specs are pretty
much the same apart from the Graphics card
Can anyone help