True Crime: New York City - Traffic Keeps Stopping/ Reversing Bug

[Mrblubb]

With the new widescreen patch the traffic keeps stopping and sometimes wouldn't move. When it does It only moves in reverse direction. Something to do with the Fixgamespeed =1 parameter. If I put it 0 the game traffic behaves normally but the game speed becomes too fast.

[Firaz-Ilhan]

Set FrameLimitType to 1 in TrueCrimeNewYorkCity.WidescreenFix.ini

[Mrblubb]

Ok I'll try to see if it fixed the issue

[Mrblubb]

Alright so here's my observations so far after hours of testing:

• First and foremost "if you remove the lines FixGameSpeed and GameSpeedFactor from your TrueCrimeNewYorkCity.WidescreenFix.ini, your game will "always have reverse traffic bug" no matter what fps you play at.
• Both FixGameSpeed and GameSpeedFactor work in conjunction with each other. If you set FixGameSpeed to 1 and other to 0 "you will have reverse traffic"
• You can put them to zero as FixGameSpeed = 0 GameSpeedFactor = 0 and change FPSLimit to 30. That way game will stutter but is playable and won't have reverse traffic You can also put FPSLimit to 60 and the game will be very fast but won't have reverse traffic
• If set FixGameSpeed =1 then GameSpeedFactor will be enabled and the lower its value the faster the game and The higher its value the slower the game i.e., GameSpeedFactor = 0.5 will make the game faster and GameSpeedFactor = 1.9 will make the game slower

Note : here we're trying to slow down the game to make it playable at 30fps. If you put 60fps in the FPSLimit the game will have double frames and if you try to slow it down with higher GameSpeedFactor value, it will freeze. The value I found that won't freeze the game is GameSpeedFactor = 0.99 The game will look good and feels very responsive and mouse will be very smooth but still there "will be reverse traffic bug"

• By default the patch comes with both of these values as FixGameSpeed = 1 & GameSpeedFactor = 1.2 and FPSLimit = 30 which somewhat matches PS2 speed but "will still cause reverse traffic bug"

THE WORKAROUND to remove reverse traffic bug There are two ways I found to overcome this issue. It's not the definitive solution but definitely makes the game 100% playable with KB & Mouse & without reverse traffic bug.

1. Set the values as following in the TrueCrimeNewYorkCity.WidescreenFix.ini FixGameSpeed = 1 GameSpeedFactor = 0.98 FrameLimitType = 2 FpsLimit = 30

Now set Vsync On in NVCP and set RTSS limit to 30 for smoother gameplay OR

2. Set in the ini : FixGameSpeed = 1 GameSpeedFactor = 0 FrameLimitType = 2 FpsLimit = 60

Download cheat engine. Run the game. Run cheat engine > Click on the search process button > select TrueCrimeNYC.exe > In the right panel check Enable speedhack > Enter value 0.5 & Hit apply. The game will be working at the right speed without reverse traffic bug. Edit:( with this method cutscenes will be half the speed so in cutscenes speedhack needs to be back to 1.0)

Personally I find the 2nd one the best method so far unless the patch gets updated with a more viable fix. Hopefully 60fps will be playable someday.

[ThirteenAG]

Download cheat engine. Run the game. Run cheat engine > Click on the search process button > select TrueCrimeNYC.exe > In the right panel check Enable speedhack > Enter value 0.5 & Hit apply. The game will be working at the right speed without reverse traffic bug.

And what, this doesn't have any issues/drawbacks?

[Mrblubb]

In gameplay I didn't find any so far but cutscenes are slow as if they work at half speed. So when I change the speedhack to 1.0 cutscenes work well but when ingame it speeds up back again so I switch the speed back to 0.5 to make it playable.

[Mrblubb]

After some more digging I found that the PC version is actually based on the xbox version albeit with some effects missing or file differences. But since now the True Crime trademark is no more, this game could use SKygfx GTA SA or Silent hill 2 enhanced edition treatment on PC. So I've managed to unpack the PS2 Data.pak here: https://we.tl/t-Ubl48rVkC6 And the Xbox Data.pak here: https://we.tl/t-k7E6pnRnsJ Hopefully this could be of some use if anyone wants to mod this game in future and make it truly a worthy PC port.

[dejimo8]

where did you find the NPCP file i cant find it

[Mrblubb]

where did you find the NPCP file i cant find it

I suppose you meant NVCP. It's actually short for nvidia control panel. You just have to add the exe in it and turn on vsync. Rest follow the cheat engine method or first method. For gameplay cheat engine method really feels great.