@a63nt-5m1th hey man sorry its been so long! work got chaotic. So i end up not being able to work it out and just created a fresh start. I obviously left out Kitsune Trains and any mods that i thought may cause an issue.... and im still getting random CTD!!!!! Ive backed up save files 4 times along the way so i have 4 seperate installs ready to go. Its frustrating as soemtimes the CTD wont happen until 20+ minutes in so its very time consuming to test. Im wondering whether its somehting on my system or something else???? It suckssssss

Okay so, if i can get sorted i'm gonna need a way to transfer you $$ to buy yourself a present because i'm about to potentially ruin your night..... firstly, I have a backup folder with the latest working-ish (with the random CTD) before all this editing etc folder right.... so then I deleted my main folder and was going to reinstall and start again... when i deleted the main folder I opened rockstar launcher and it said "play" and i was very confused so i opened folder location and it was the fkn backup folder..... I really really really am hoping it somehow switched when i deleted but otherwise I may be the most stupid person on the planet and have been editing the files in the main folder when it wasnt even launching from there.....

I swear to god if it's the latter i'm going to throw my pc out

So before I go any further, I searched and trains.xml is in update.rpf... I completely removed update.rpf and drove around for a little but the Kitsune trains were still spawning? i didnt drive for long enough to crash but wanted to let you know before i move forward. what do you think firs step is?

Thats where the issue comes in, it's two OIV files and a bunch of other stuff and theres no OIV uninstaller. Any idea the easiest way to uninstall the mods?

and how do i know if the DLC is good/not damaged? If im rebuilding a new update.rpf wont i need to reinstall a bunch of mods again? and not know which ones??

How do i rebuild from vanilla?

So i just tried using the vanilla common, then dlc_patch, then x64 and i still got crashes with all of them. I vaguely remember getting crashes with trains so i went near the train tracks and it crashed after a few minutes so i thought maybe it was Kitsune trains 6.1... i reinstalled it correctly and then i went near the train tracks and the mod worked and spawned a train and didnt crash. In the same game, I disabled trains through the trainer and drove around for a bit and then CTD again. Now i'm really stuck

@a63nt-5m1th So i followed your guide and I got a random CTD from having JUST the update.rpf in mods. ASSUMING (I really hope so hahah) this is the only error causing the CTD, what would be the most effective way to test this folder? Start with vanilla and gradually add mods back? do i try playing with just common, without dlc_patch and x64? What's the way to go from here...?

SO for the first part, I mean modded as in add-on vehicles, so like there were food delivery add on vehicles spawned etc. I just turned off my overclocks AND had no ambient vehicle spawns while driving and I still got a crash after 5ish minutes. I've installed quite a few OIV installers so Ithink some may have replaced and add-on vehicles but if none of them are spawning it shouldnt affect the crash? I'm also newbie to modding so i could be testing wrong or not 100% correctly so not getting accurate results which sucks.

I may have to do the mods folder rebuild today and let you know.

@a63nt-5m1th SO i just installed those files and also disabled scripts, there was a bunch of peds walking around and the only cars I saw were police, a couple modded ones which i guess are placed etc.. I got another CTD with no police on me. Any ideas from here?

@a63nt-5m1th Oh heck i never even saw that!! thanks man i'll chjeck it out

@a63nt-5m1th so i just played without zero text in popgroups and vehiclemodelsets in both mod places of each, so 4 files total. Drove around for a while and eventually had another CTD. Going to try with normal popgroups and vehiclemodelsets and no scripts?