@JohnFromGWN really cheap indeed, I'll get it for sure!

@gtavjamal I've played Split/Second few years ago. Fun indeed, but I got bored kinda quickly. The best time I had on the genre was definitely with Gran Turismo on PS2. Some sort of affective memory on this, used to play it with my uncles on early teenage, fine tuning the cars and mastering every corner was definitely a thing.

Good thing that I couldn't play a bunch of stuff on the last years, so I have plenty of good old titles to try while industry goes downhill on microtransactions hell lol

@gtavjamal lol it's just that I need to keep those cars on disk anyway, so why not have them available? I just wasn't able to make the engine sounds work for some reason, if I put a similar car sound on <audioNameHash> in vehicles.meta it'll work, but again, I'll know something is not right and there goes another sleepless night

Inverse Power worked great, even on latest update, great addition. The AI drivers I had already, the helpers from street races improve their performance by lots, still I found that disabling traffic makes races more competitive, else the AI wreck themselves too hard to get back, even getting totaled. Maybe fine tuning handling would improve it, I quickly checked Vehicle Handling V and it was mostly close enough to what I'm using now, I'll get deeper into it at some point, but as you said, it takes time.

Yeah I,ve tried to add only the cars as addons, there is only mpsecurity and mpchristmas3 that wont work just by adding on dlclist, managed to get all of them working, except the sounds. There are some cars there that I would like to have in traffic, like Ignus and Virtue.

Anyway, went back to 2372 and Street Races works good now, definitely sticking with stability and moddability over few vanilla vehicles.

Bout performance, I'm getting now consistent 30fps on a 9600 GT with 4GB of DDR2, not sure if it gets any better than this, good enough for now. Re-size, reducing drawing distance from fragments file and lod distance in visualsettings.dat are my core performance tweaks.

Manual Transmission offers a lot of stuff and even suggests a bunch of other mods, I'll take some time to check it later

@gtavjamal I've found out my initial issue comes from gameconfig.xml

that's weird, that's the first time I get malfunction from this file, usually a bad gameconfig only gets me infinite/crash at load

I'll keep checking to find exactly which line is the issue just because

In the meantime, I got plenty of questions about your recommendation of street races

Which game version are you running? I got instant crash when trying to start a race with last update car.
I need to do the reload thing when starting a race or it will load on black screen forever, minor issue
Every racer starts screwed somehow, my car is often flying, others are mid traffic chaos, some flipped, some looking backwards. They do get on track after a while anyway
Checkpoint blips won't disappear, even after reloading scripts, that's only an issue on later updates? I do have a backup folder with everything working on 2372, but I like as many vanilla cars as possible, as I'm playing on a toaster so addons usually get me some annoying micro stuttering

I see. I'll check that out for sure. I do have community races working, but some of the races fail too badly, drivers turn around randomly at some point in multiple of them.

Not really a priority, thus why I didn't noticed when I messed with this, I'll very rarely want to enter those races, it just bothers me that something is not working.

When I try to start any of the standard race events across the map, the game goes into a screen fade in fade out loop, but the race never starts, so I need to reload in order for things go back to normal.
It works if I rename my update folder so I know the issue is there, but I've changed just so much stuff at this point that it'll take quite a while to track it down t.t
It would be very helpful if anyone is able to point which file specifically rules that.
scenarios.meta, scenariotriggers.meta, events.meta are vanilla

Moon on my game has weird pathing, it changes if I speed forward the game, sometimes it never rise or sets but just wanders on the sky and fades in a random time.
VisualV claims to fix moon path but I just tried it and a bunch of other mods and the path does change but always weirdly. I tried using on <moon_direction_x/y/z> entries on timecycle files to match those of the sun, but apparently it only changed the distance to the moon, not the way it travels.
Changing the "moon_roll" value on time.xml affects it but I can not really understand how.
Anyone there tried playing with this?

@soul_predator501 if you're adding a new entry to your dlclist and still using vanilla gameconfig.xml, yeah, you'll probably need a new one.

I'll usually dig for one from "gta-5-gameconfig-300-cars" or "rde-team-gameconfig-xml"

Once you get one that works to your game, you probably won't need to change it unless R* updates the game and you want to be on latest release.

I just found out:
update/update.rpf/common/data/materials/materials.dat

I think I remember something about bullets piercing stuff from some mod I've used, that was probably when I swapped this file

I don't use oivs to install, I'll just pick whatever I want from mods, so I have bits of lots and lots of mods and won't be able to track the source, but restoring vanilla materials.dat solved the issue

If it crashes at loading it is mostly sure the problem is with the gameconfig.xml, try a new one or just use the one you had at the start. Mods that change police behavior usually do not need a new gameconfig, why did you replaced yours?