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I just wanted to call attention to this because for me, the second train that appeared for me happened either during a heavy rain storm or the storm started (or perhaps intensified) while chasing the train to check for passengers. I believe however that it was already at least raining, and as I caught up to it to check for passengers it was by then pouring rain. This was when I was using both the gameconfig mod and the altered WhyEm's textures, and I indirectly mentioned this instance in my initial post because after I slowed and allowed the train to pass I noticed my frame rate had dropped down to 30 FPS and would not pick back up unless I was looking directly at the ground or the sky. Which ties into a follow up I intended to make after testing a bit further. I had severe frame rate issues happen a second time, again when chasing a train, but this time I went up north and into a snow storm. Both times I noticed my external SSD was hitting unusually high temperatures; nothing dangerous, but normally it barely even heats up at all. Well I've since tested my game (on my epilogue 2 save and as of last night on a brand new save file as Arthur) using only vincemeister's WhyEm's textures, having deleted the gameconfig mod, and so far I am still experiencing an abundance of varied road traffic with passengers and trains, but none of the heating up or halved frame rates. Obviously I will need to get some more testing in and have yet to try it with a 100% WhyEm's outfit or with his gun textures, but with the hairstyles and a few pieces of clothing my game is back to running perfectly at a steady high frame rate and no more populated traffic issues. As I mentioned earlier I don't believe I was experiencing animal spawn issues, because for months using mods I've been able to reliably find Moose, cougars, panthers, the various rare birds needed for Algernon, etc. I played entirely vanilla for two playthroughs on PC and lost count of how many hours I played on Xbox when it was new, so I am fairly certain my idea of what ought to be expected out of wild life and traffic isn't over or underestimated.

Another update, I can confirm that just using vincemeister55's version of WhyEm's DLC textures folders without the gameconfig mod is working for me on Steam Deck; had a whole bunch of stagecoaches with passengers and just saw a train northeast of Strawberry loaded with people. I first tried using these folders with the gameconfig mod and everything was working, however the moment I heard a train whistle the game froze and I couldn't get it to resume. It didn't hard freeze my Steam Deck so I was still able to manually abort the game without restarting it, but that wasn't a good sign (and considering it is made for PCs expected to be using heavy texture replacement mods, I figured it would cause such a problem). But the important thing is that after removing it, I loaded the game back up and immediately had a train and after riding a few minutes saw multiple stagecoaches, so I would imagine the gameconfig mod is not necessary if the only mod used adding textures is WhyEm's. I don't have access to my computer at home to try it out, but given the success on Steam Deck I would imagine it should perform similarly or better. Thanks again vincemeister!! At this point I don't even care about 99% of the mod, I just cannot play John without his early game long hair and those gloves are the shit, haha. I'm so relieved that I can enjoy this mod and resume seeing trains and more varied traffic, it really does diminish the atmosphere and immersion without them. Editing to add that I used to use the no scope mod for the ability to attach and remove scopes from the sniper rifles and to be able switch between aiming down sights and scopes, particularly for the Carcano, but it caused issues with WhyEm's so I ended up manually editing WhyEm's version of the weapons.ymt file to achieve the same without using another mod.

I made an account just to thank you, this is so sincerely appreciated! The mods I use are WhyEm's DLC, Rampage Trainer and a mod that unlocks the preorder content and noticed that I was having the issue with trains not spawning and missing passengers in stagecoaches and such. I suppose I am fortunate in that I don't believe I was having any problems with wildlife and the towns and city population were always significant, but there is no question that I was not seeing trains or passengers. Using this file you've shared to replace the folders in WhyEm's along with the gameconfig mod recommended earlier in this thread, I loaded up a my latest save file (in Epilogue 2) and tested it by first using minimal parts of the mod. So I went to Valentine and stripped all of my guns that had any of WhyEm's carvings or varnishes, deleted all of my saved outfits and made a new outfit for John using the classic hat but I kept his hairstyle provided by WhyEm's along with the Cowboy gloves, and I believe those are the only mod-added items on screen or saved on my horse. I don't really use the horse related items so that wasn't involved at all. And sure enough, there was a train leaving Valentine station as I approached from the gun shop. I turned around and went to the saloon to eat, then rented a room to skip time to the following morning, and rode out into the Heartlands and when I was over by the ruins of Cornwall's Kerosene and Tar I heard a train moving and saw the smoke way up in the distance and chased after it. After going through the tunnel I caught up to it and there was a guard in the back, and in the passenger cars each one had several people in it! I took a photo which I've attached to this post to show it. I went on to encounter freight trains and passenger trains several times in different parts of the map, and passed countless stagecoaches some of which had up to three passengers besides the driver. As I tried adding a few more items of clothing from the mod everything still seemed to be working properly, so I wanted to let you know that at least for one person your efforts appear to have made a significant difference. I have yet to really push the boundaries or try it without the gameconfig mod active, but I intend to soon and will share the results afterwards. One issue I did have which I assume should be related to the gameconfig mod is that after about an hour or so of playing I was beginning to get frame rate drops down to 30 FPS and even lower whenever heavy snow or rain appeared, whereas I had gotten everything running at 60 FPS months ago, and this never happened before. I play it on a laptop with a 1660ti attached to a 2550x1440 monitor but with the resolution in-game set to 1980x1080 to maintain the frame rate, so it is not a super powerful setup but certainly can handle the game by putting certain settings at medium. Another thing, probably not nearly as many people would be interested if they come across this post, but I have the exact same modded setup installed on my Steam Deck and often go back and forth between it and my computer and I also will be trying this out there, and will share my results after. But basically if I can fix the frame rate issue, the other issue will for me be as good as fixed.