@ReNNie Thank you for mentioning the ambient ped values, I had not seen those. I will try tweaking them all now.

That makes sense, I recently discovered the peds pool size in gameconfig.xml and have tried editing that with no luck. I am trying to go through old gameconfigs which do it but can't figure out how to increase the memory allocation to allow more peds to exist.

I am attempting to spawn in many peds but at 256 peds they stop spawning. Is there a way to increase this number or somehow freeze peds so that they persist while allowing more to spawn in? Any help would be greatly appreciated!