Right... is this the right forum?

Anyway, I have been using OpenIV to change how weapons handle, make combat more challenging, etc. Several times in the process, I have hit several walls... err crashes. But I ignored it.

Except now. It's been maybe the 4th or 5th time the game crashed during prolonged combat with cops, all seemingly for no reason. My only hunch right now is that weapons may not always function correctly beyond a certain range, and that only because I changed weapon definition files.

I have narrowed down to the several files I edited. Only problem is, I don't know which one is the faulty one! I think the culprit is either the weapons.meta or weaponanimations.meta (the ones found in update.rpf/common/data/ai), since the game did crash during prolonged combat with the police, with only ScriptHookV, a trainer, OpenIV, and those files installed.

I think these lines may be suspicious (from WEAPON_ASSAULTSMG in weapons.meta):
<LockOnRange value="55.000000" />
<WeaponRange value="9999.000000" />
<BulletDirectionOffsetInDegrees value="0.000000" />
<AiSoundRange value="-1.000000" />
<AiPotentialBlastEventRange value="-1.000000" />
<DamageFallOffRangeMin value="150.000000" />
<DamageFallOffRangeMax value="600.000000" />
<DamageFallOffModifier value="0.300000" />

I am running version 1.0.1290.1. The files I edited and then installed into the game through OpenIV and the log files can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nzY3pdGp7ACAXNFohOifjf-a-3my5nD7?usp=sharing