@JohnFromGWN Good news! I went through with starting over with one ped. And lo and behold no crashing and I was able to load the ped.

Now I got to see how far I can go before the game says "no". I had orginally around 36 addon peds. It never crashed before now. Going to add another and see what happens.

Ok nevermind. I found out how to structure it and break the game. It needed the update folder as part of the path.

But now the game crashes once again. So I think it found peds but it just didn't like something.

Would it be wise now to remove all the peds and just slowly add them back one at a time? Basically start over with them. And see if I can add even just one?

@JohnFromGWN Ok what I did was, delete my old mods folder. I recopied the update.rpf and update folder again. Readded addonpeds, wrote it in dlclist, and put the gameconfig back.

Boom I'm in. TrainerV loads too.

Now one thing I am concerned on is addonpeds not working. At least the menu works. I can get it to pop up. Only thing is the game doesn't recognize any of the peds. They are on the list, but picking any of them results in a can't be found.

I checked and they are still there in dlc.rpf. I clicked rebuild in addonpeds editor.

My thinking is the way the mods folder is pathed. I remember having this issue before. Do you know how its supposed to be pathed again?

Currently its : mods/x64/dlcpacks/addonpeds/dlc.rpf/peds.rpf

@JohnFromGWN Now I removed addonpeds and it still crashes. So yeah I have no clue what went wrong here.

What do you suggest now? Should I just make a whole new fresh mods folder and start over? Cause now I'm out of ideas.

@JohnFromGWN Well I deleted all my addon cars and it still crashes. The only thing left is the addon peds.

@JohnFromGWN I just remembered something regarding the gameconfig. You are right about it being useless to verify. But what I mean to say is that what if I put the vanilla gameconfig into the mods folder? I just remembered that whatever is in the mods folder overwrites the vanilla files. And you said its not necessary to use a gameconfig. So I just revert back to the vanilla.

I believe it has to be the gameconfig. Its the only thing not updated for 2845. I tried dilapated's config too.

I might have an idea on the mod that is causing it. I know you said its not necessarily the quantity of mods, but in the past my game has crashed because of too many addonpeds.

@JohnFromGWN Its got to be the mods folder. I just put it back and my game crashed. It can't be any of the peds or cars now can it? It has to be the gameconfig.

If I delete my gameconfig and verify integrity, it should give me the stock file correct?

@JohnFromGWN Alright so far so good. I've add back the following:

Heapadjuster
Packfilelimitadjuster
OpenIV

Still haven't reactivated the mods or scripts folder. Which should be done first?

Ok if you don't mind I'd like to keep my progress with you. Just so someone else is also keep up with me.

I did what you said.

Renamed mod and scripts.
Removed all asi files
Put back TrainerV

Loaded into the game. TrainerV worked. And as expected no other mods could activate, i.e addonpeds.

So now can I slowly start to add stuff back?

@JohnFromGWN Ok I checked my game out by renameing dinput. It worked unmodded. So now what should be my next step?