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

Two things: first
The limit you're hitting is partly due to single-threaded rendering common to DX11 titles.
I can't really 'fix' that so-to-speak, but I am constantly working on optimizing the map as I go along, so that adding to it doesn't pull down the FPS more.
Having a modern processor is key to 60fps but even low/very low is possible to get 30~40fps around town with appropriate video settings even on a first generation i7 processor from 2009 and a 1gb video card.
Anything Ryzen and anything Intel 4xxx and newer should suffice, provided you have as many cores as you have cars in-play, to run real time.
Second thing:
TURN YOUR GRAPHICS DETAIL TO MEDIUM, as high detail graphics requires somewhere around a 6~8GB video card right now, and most folks don't have more than 4GB on their video card.
768mb~1gb video card, use lowest, low may still peg 1gb cards at max.
1~2gb use LOW settings, depending on how well it runs, neither low or lowest should be run at 1080p but 720p as often these cards (and integrated) solutions don't have the fastest Video RAM.
3~4gb video cards use MEDIUM settings.
6~8gb video cards may use high settings.
I know, it somewhat stinks that you can't use high settings on a 4gb graphics card. There's not too much I can do about this right now, in this stage of development / optimization.
You can still adjust the mesh detail slider to suit taste as it shouldn't have a terrible affect on FPS on a decently modern PC. I recommend leaving it up near max unless you're on 720p or have an extremely OLD processor / computer, as a large majority of the meshes have been optimized.
Thank-you for the WOW and the review, but always know this is a map from the future enjoyed within a game from the future - neither have seen formal release yet.
That being said if it still runs like poo after it's done, feel free to put me on blast over it.

I have yet to be able to figure out why there's an invisible wall, or to be able to re-create the issue here. It's just one of those issues that, for now, please tolerate for a little bit. Try to take off facing towards the rest of the map, so you don't hit the buggy invisible wall or whatever it is. When you land, don't land from the ocean side, land as if you've just been flying from the middle of the map facing toward the ocean. I will speak with the staff when they're not too busy as to what it could be.
If you can take a few picture of where you hit the wall (as soon as you crash into it, hit J to pause physics, and press ALT+O to take a screen shot), it would be helpful.
I've never been able to find the invisible collision (wall). I have to find it to be able to fix it.
Otherwise, do enjoy the map.

Everything but the forested mountains is on the drawing board.
Unless I make a 2D wall of impassable trees and fake 2d trees and ground texture to cover the mountains with, it willl be a serious performance hit. This performance impact would be close to the impact of a complete city setting, and a large (3+ GB) memory footprint / requirement increase, in addition to what already is needed (roughly about 5gb or so for the game, the map, and 6~16 vehicles). So for now, the forest is a cut, non-promised feature. I'd love to add it, but IF it gets added, it will be last and will be optional after the map is complete.
The rest of the stuff, farms and rural natural settings is all scheduled to be added. I have purchased almost a full complete set of dev tools used by AAA studios - and our wonderful developers here at BeamNG - for myself to use making this map. Sadly there's only one of me, plus anyone kindly donating self-made models. That goes without saying this would NOT have been at all possible if not for the wonderful Patreon backers who helped get this project off the ground.
In the broader spectrum here, this map provides a modular city building kit - with everything you need to build the city. Of course much mapping experience is a big benefit, but the pieces allow even novices to build a city with almost limitless possibility (once they can get a map set up properly - not very easy, but that's early access for ya!).
Thanks for the kind review, and know that while the end-product might be just a hair more heavy on the system in terms of cpu/gpu requirements, if you can get 40~45fps now, you'll at-least get 38~42 fps when it's done (and you can always knock a setting down if needed).
Keep in mind this map requires AT LEAST 6GB of VIDEO memory (not system RAM) on the video card for high detail, and is a much greater requirement than the stock maps. That aside it'll run on a first-generation i7 / x58 / socket 1366 Nehelam system if you have a half decent video card and at-least 3.5~4gb of RAM free.
Thank-you very much for the kind review of something I've devoted thousands of hours to, and don't forget to flip on traffic to extend the fun!

A lot of work in, and far from finished, yes that's Los Injurus.
But thank-you, at-least it shows, and you're grateful for it. Thousands of hours spent, hundreds of dollars of software just for this project, and almost no life outside of BeamNG while trying to meet deadlines.
That's okay because I'd rather do this than anything else, and my physical health (I am physically disabled) leaves me stuck in the house often any-who - so might as well make the most of it!
This life isn't what I dreamed up for myself - but I dreamed of making games when I was a kid playing Nintendo / Super Nintendo / Sega.
I just hope everyone else can enjoy playing it at-least as much as I do building/testing/playing it.
...and don't ever let go of your dreams! What was once sketches and endless marbled notebooks of drawings, is now a reality for everyone to enjoy.
--Cheers & Much Gratitude back at ya.

The no texture is fixed by applying a patch on page 54 of the discussion thread.
Please re-read the map description for a link to it.
It over-writes the terrain folder in the map.
Sorry for your disappointment, but this was caused by a game bug where it did not write terrain definitions to the index in the map folder, and then the console errors for it were non-existent to top it off.
I manually added the missing entries one by one to the index and now it works, but it took a good solid week to figure out the bug.

If you had used the discussion forum, you'd have seen this problem has been fixed.

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.