The Spawn Bug™
A significant bug that is encountered with heavily modded games is reduced pedestrian or wildlife spawns, especially with vehicles like wagons, trains, and Saint Denis trolleys. While the specifics of this is still being debated, it is widely considered to be a problem involving uncompressed textures used for streaming files such as ‘YTD’ and ‘YMT’, which are commonly used in clothing mods such as WhyEM’s DLC, texture upscales, or most John Marston overhauls. When the game starts getting choked from memory overload, it will attempt to “cull” objects in order to help the game run with a problematic GPU. A marvel in performance optimization, but a nightmare when you want to use custom textures.
As of this guide there has been no successful way to increase the game’s memory usage without causing major problems in other areas. It is recommended to use mods that have used more resourceful compressing methods in order to prevent the bug from occuring in the first place. Unfortunately, a lot of older mods have not done this and a lot of players will unknowingly encounter this bug as they skim through the Most Downloaded page on Nexus, or download mod lists off of several year old YouTube videos.
If you want to learn more about the topic,
here’s a 30+ page forum thread discussing the bug in greater detail.[
www.rdr2mods.com]
Also a video showcasing the bug, from the author behind LITE - Multiplayer Asset Enabler:
