Reply To: Does anyone know as to how the maps are loaded?

You probably don’t understand structure of Mafia. Mafia don’t uses GTA concept with streamig, in Mafia, there are separated scenes for every mission part (And this is the reason, why Mafia isn’t suitable for sandbox styled mods). 

If you were talking ONLY about city scenes, then it’s all about the graphics. For sure, there is draw distance, far clipping range and LOD’s, but when you are loading city, all objects are loaded AT ONCE. So, Lost Heaven isn’t chopped for sectors etc., it have only graphic optimalization. Whole city is one big map.

So the engine doesn’t stream content, then. I asked about this since I’m thinking as to how badly-done things were in the console versions of the game.