Beta (City of) Los Injurus 2023-12-20

You need 6gb of VRAM for high detail, at-least. Turn texture details down low.

Awesome, thanks man, it means a lot. Enjoy some air time off the jumps while you're at it (and some of the mountains you can so easily 'drive right up'), as there's jumps everywhere. Almost one - if not several on every block in some spots. Don't forget that STAIRS = RAMPS in this map, because driving up stairs is something we all did in driving games since way-back. Just have fun, whatever you do, is all I ask.
This will be BeamNG's GTA SA style of map - nothing copied - but so much of the enjoyment we all had crashing around the SA map (from 2004 or 2005), we shall have here, as that is one of the games (aside of Midtown Madness and some Carmageddon) I modeled the city layouts and general play-style after. There's so much more to come.
Glad you like the highways, too, I just finished re-doing about 2 miles of it.
Thanks for the great review.

Thanks! It's made so anyone with a potato PC can enjoy it, or even laptops or other computers that just meet the basic requirements, and have enough RAM. It's still going to look pretty decent on max texture details on anything RX 470/480 8gb models, 1070 8gb or higher video boards and run easily 60fps. You can sometimes turn up your mesh details even on a potato, it shouldn't affect FPS too badly, just don't turn the texture details up unless you have a 3~4gb card for medium, or a 6~8gb card for high. Processor requirement is as-above 'anything that will run BeamNG decent'. I kept the draw calls really low (which are processor commands to feed the GPU with render calls, all games use this), so that users with lower-spec PC's could run this, and also so that users with medium and higher-spec PC's can crank up the traffic, leaving all the detail for the cars and the roads they drive on. So while the buildings are a bit simple (I will spruce up some of them later a bit), it leaves all the detail for the roads and the vehicles whilst not looking quite like trash.
So do enjoy the city, it's a labor of love, and a continuing one at that. There will be lots of new stuff in the next version, LOTS LESS BUGS, and improved AI over bridges / interchanges, as the base-game saw some improvement there.
--Cheers and TY for the good review.

You'll be fine just use medium detail as you have 4gb of video RAM.
You have enough system RAM and processor to have a few vehicles of traffic (this isn't much different from the base game maps in requirements).
If you want to run more traffic, update to a Ryzen 3000 series processor with 8 or more cores to happily fill the roads with 15~20 vehicles (depending on your system configuration). The days of 8GB of system RAM being okay are numbered (mostly for other software!), however, it should do fine for now. If you're already running everything off an SSD (as an SSD is more important!), Snag a used 16gb kit off Flea Bay (Ebay) on the cheap that matches your own so you can put all the RAM in at once, and you should be golden. The 1050 is fine with 4gb of RAM, though some games will want more VRAM on a video card (including this map which likes around 6GB max currently - expecting to be up around 7GB~7.5GB by the time it's done).

Thanks! Glad you enjoy the map and it runs well for you. Please post your system configuration on the discussion thread when you have time (it's not urgent).

Really surprised it ran at all on 4GB of RAM. Wow. Amazing stuff man. Definitely look on the local classifieds for another 2 or 4gb (4gb is best!) stick of it depending on what your computer has in it already (RAM is best paired). You can find stuff pretty cheap these days as people update to fast DDR4 memory on newer platforms. 25~40$ can sometimes buy 8gb or so of it used. Saw 4x 4gb sticks (16gb) of matched 1600mhz DDR3 going for 50$ the other day, used of course but working none-the-less.
Great review. Car parkour is one way to say it, but yes you can get A LOT of air time in this map, it's made to have a good time in. There's always some type of way to completely thrash the vehicle at the end of almost every straight-a-way - and if there's not, there just might be soon enough. I am constantly adding more blocks of city and more buildings to the map (as of right now I'm working over by the abandoned mall, do have a look inside of it!). The track stone texture is actually the old ECA riverbed stone, re-colored for Roane County. However, the track ballasts are actually overlaid onto the stone, vs part of the texture itself. That part is new, the stone however, of-course some things will be re-used from old maps, I'm only a team of ONE person right now (aside of those kind folks who donate models here and there).
So entirely - thanks for the great review - there is so much more coming in the future for this map as I've just begun. It's of-course always nice when people are so appreciative of all the work gone into this. Do keep on the lookout for more computer RAM, can never have enough of that stuff.
The city, while much is loosely based on 'California' contains also things like windy Rocky-Mountain style highways, more depressed areas like the rust belt, and a whole slew of other bits and pieces of other cities (some/much of which is not yet in), so it's not just one place. There will be a bit of everything here.
So yes, my city in essence, is a mutt. Hopefully a lovable mutt.
--Cheers!

This will run on a very old system with a used 30$ (in 2016) Radeon 1GB 6750 - on a FIRST GENERATION 2009-era i7. Seriously.
Set on low or lowest details if you have 1GB of VRAM. You just need to make sure that your system has 6~8GB of system memory (different from VRAM) and you'll be okay, as I'm unsure if it will run with 4GB only.
That being said, I'm only using <2GB of memory while in the map editor, so even if you have 4GB of system RAM, try it out. If you get an 0xFFFFFFFF error from BeamNG and a crash to desktop, then purchase some more memory for the computer - it's usually pretty cheap especially on older machines.
THIS IS MADE TO RUN ON LOW/OLDER/ OTHERWISE MARGINAL SPEC MACHINES!
You don't know until you try! Let me know in the comments how well or if it works. As long as your processor is half-decent and you don't try to run too many AI vehicles (for your system processor, video, and system memory specifications), you will be just fine to drive around and enjoy this map.
A lady friend of mine had an HP / COMPAQ business-class machine, with an i7 950, 6gb of 1333mhz RAM, a used Radeon 6750 1gb DDR3 card, and a hard disk drive. It took a little while to load, but otherwise, on lowest it was 60fps (capped), and 30fps on LOW (while using up all the VRAM on 'low'). This was *BEFORE* I did the optimizations (and also added more size to the city and a bit more detail), so it may even run quite a bit better now, the game was also optimized afterwords, too.
With a resounding WOW she said it was quite playable/enjoyable and was shocked how well it ran.
It's a city, with the details you want and need, and little to none of what you don't need. This keeps the FPS - and hence the enjoyment - up.
So again, TRY IT.
--Good luck

Switching to medium texture detail should make everything run much better, but you can keep the mesh quality up max, because I used lots of fps-improving tricks in making them.
Above-all, THANK YOU Sir, for taking the time to make a super-duper detailed post in your review about performance (seriously, these help LOTS and LOTS).
Your CPU is just dandy yet (surely showing it's age a bit, but you don't have to put her out to pasture yet if you don't want to), RAM is just enough, and VRAM will definitely be maxed as this uses 5.5~6.0gb or so, not including what the OS and web browser and other apps will have loaded in also (can be as much as 1.5gb especially if you have another simple game like Rimworld running in the background as I sometimes do). If on medium texture detail, you should easily be able to fit this map into the 3.5gb 'faster' section of VRAM on that card (the last 512mb of the 4gb is a bit slower than the first 3.0gb and following 512mb section, due to less links to the gpu core for the latter sections).
So again, do enjoy, and above all, thanks a million. I spent months refining the performance (about 8~12 weeks or so, on and off, mostly about 2 months worth beginning of last Winter).

Thank-you for the review and leaving performance specs / results. Can always use performance results over here, to know how well it's running. Cannot say I am surprised as a lady friend of mine with a i7 950 (xeon equivalent) with a Radeon 6750 1gb ddr3 (used 30$), 12gb ddr3 1333mhz triple channel memory can run this just fine on lowest (60fps) and low (30fps), and that was BEFORE a lot of optimization in both the game engine AND this map. So it's likely a lot better now than when I had it tested. So provided folks have 6~8gb of RAM to throw at this, the system requirements are that of the base game otherwise (and possibly less).

I do my best to learn from what is Roane County in 2017~2018 and not murder the FPS so much. The custom-designed models I made do help this issue a LOT.
Enjoy the Modular Road Kit (MRK) included with this map, it's like SimCity for BeamNG!

--Cheers!

I spend 12+ hours some days stuck in this chair, working on this. Thanks man, appreciate the kind words. I hope you find the future versions with more features, bigger and more varied city, better textures, and much more detail packed into it even better. I am glad you are appreciative of my thousands of hours of work, and hundreds of dollars spent, to make this dream a reality. I could only wish some others were this elated.
Thank-you highly.

Yes, that's on the to-do list here. I will surely get some chance to add them in before the end of the year.

I will be making many of the larger stores and eventually factories truck-friendly as the map production goes on. There's only maybe TWO (lowered) truck docks, but PLENTY of roads to drive on, and plenty more truck-friendly docks as I said will be put in at all the grocery stores, malls, and such. If you really want a challenge, try getting a truck of any decent size remotely close to the back of a strip mall (IF possible, some are pretty crammed, to simulate Los Angeles, which is a trucking nightmare in and of itself).
So do not fret what-so-ever, I am trying to make this truck-friendly. Do be aware that if you haul a load 40~70 pianos in a trailer, you WILL need the T-75 destroyer mod to have the power to get up some of the hills, as the stock engines of the trucks do not have anywhere near the power required.
At-least two or three dedicated COMMERCIAL FLEET fueling stations will be provided with the map when it is complete, where you can fill up and park your rig for the evening. Think something like 'Pacific Pride' or 'LOVE'S' stations like you see on the highway - and that's a promise.
--Cheers!

Some spots have bi-directional AI traffic which is unintended (for highways and four-lane or wider roads). It's mostly on the older areas of the map that I haven't gone over. I will be fixing much of that, and have already fixed some of it that I noticed in the video review. It's a symbol of a bygone era when BeamNG not only didn't have 'traffic' but didn't have the ability to make one way roads or even 'lanes'. Yes, this map was originally started way back on version 0.5.x or even 0.4.x back in the spring of 2016. That's how old the terrain and many of the rural roads are. The highways were updated around 2017 to better suit fast driving and banking many of the turns that weren't. Now the map is becoming the city I wanted it originally to be, which is why all those highways were put in way back starting in 2016. Now I am finally able to turn this into a (virtual) reality.
Entirely, a 6GB~8GB graphics board will help you alot. A 2060 or Radeon 5700/5700XT will help leaps and bounds, but they're all around 350~450$, so do consider checking the used market also.
I would aim for an 8GB card, to give you some room, as the map will require up to 8GB of VRAM when it's done for MAX texture detail.
*An RX 480/570/580/590/Vega 56/64 will be plenty, as all of these models are, or have the option to have 8GB VRAM models, so keep an eye on the used market, too. This also includes Nvidia 1070/1080/980Ti (?) models, also. I am using an RX 480 8gb model here, which is 'on it's last legs' / dying, but it still does decent FPS when it's not cranky or if I down-clock it a bit so it doesn't crash the driver.
So do enjoy, maybe in the spring I will be able to get another video card.
--Cheers!

I will be dealing with the 'dull brown / grey' stuff later on down the line in the project, for now, try to live with it as it's a small concession in an otherwise interesting city. This is known, however.

Reviews aren't for tech support.
Remove your other mods before running this mod if you run into an issue. This mod's file is bob_city_map_alpha_patreon_preview, so look for that zip and keep it but move others to a temporary folder somewhere outside the document\beamng.drive\mods directory (and outside the beamng.drive folder in documents altogether).
If you have so_cal_interstate, that is the only other mod that will conflict directly with this, all others would be different named.
Try downloading the file again as the download could have corrupted due to sheer size. You can try downloading it manually from here and put it into the above mentioned mods directory.
Also, make sure your C: drive isn't close to full, and empty your recycle bin if needed as you could be close to full on your c: drive.