I didn't repost what I did since I was following the directions that were posted as a quoted response to my first post about this issue. I can name 100 times that I was chastised by the "admin" for not reading back in the forum, or for reposting things that were previously posted, in the 3 or so years I have been a member of this forum. But if it helps I am willing to deal with the flack. Post by: michaelny on Jan 27 2010, @ 03:45 AM; "you cold try to reduce the traffic within the " freeplayparameters.xml" ( make a backup first and don't forget to think about the UAC if you are using Vista or Win7 , because otherwise it will not let you save your changes ) look for a line like this <vehicletraffic factor="2.0"/> and change the number to a lower one ..... there are multiple lines like this in the above mentioned file , which correspond to a certain time of day or something like this ( something about timezone ) you will have to start a new game after this changes to take affect" I followed these directions explicitly and changed the values to 0.5 all this did was seemingly make the problem worse or it may have had no effect at all I can't be sure. I also tried downloading Hoppah's Patch I found in another topic. (also noticed that some how I ended up posting in the general LA Mod Topic although my first post about this was in the bugs topic... sorry for that). But that is all I can say about it cause I don't know too much about coding or script writing sadly. Any help would be awesome!