Yep, forgot to add it https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/148aztq/san_andreas_mercenaries_bug_thread/

@SpikeSp Yeah, that was my plan too, i might try as well later! anyway there is a thread on reddit listing all the issues that this update created, and no, we are not alone in this mess. Huge thanks to @Harmage for the precious info.

I have been messaged by someone with the same exact problems and some valuable information too, hopefully he will post soon about the issue. Apparently everything has to do with the new update and specifically the Rockstar launcher accessing the net during play. For some the game freezes even with a clean install and no mods! Let's hope a patch will come soon...

@SpikeSp yes i am! Could very well be, but for now i see no direct correlation to windows7 because all the other stuff i have on my pc works just fine (ok not in the fastest way, but still decently fast) and i should at least see some messages somehwere telling me that GTA doesn't work on windows7 anymore.

@SpikeSp Well, if that was something done on purpose by R* (and yes, i DO share your same feelings about the company) dedicated forums all over the internet would be flooded with similar threads, possibly another downvote campaign against R* on Steam would be already underway. But instead i see trainers, scripthooks gameconfigs and whatnot being updated normally, people making videos on new vehicles on youtube, the usual stuff... so i'm still trying to see if it's something i can fix or just give up until the next update. (hopefully someone will find a fix sooner, but apparently for many others the game is working just fine)

Bump? Anyone came up with a solution? I think i tried just about everything, from scripts to mods removal, gameconfig, heap adjuster, and so on, but the problem persists.

@randomdudeontheweb Same exact problem here. Also tried to delete the update folder and let the game re-download the latest patch. Temporarily removed the mods folder as well. Same problem. I'm more and more suspicious that it could be a scripthook problem not being updated properly.

@Xmodz thanks for the info. I might try reinstalling as well.

@Xmodz If your game crashes before the loading screen then it could also be related to your gameconfig not being updated. Update it and see if it works... if you get similar results then it could be the scripthook not being fully or properly updated. Hopefully Alexander Blade already noticed and a new version is already being worked on.

So this is pretty new for me: after an update the game is either very stable or it doesn't even start at all. Some mods might be broken, but they never crashed my game so far.

Anyway i updated the game to the latest patch, (San Andreas Mercenaries) installed the new scripthook, gameconfig, and my mod folder containing about 25 mods, mostly MLOs and a couple of peds. updated the dlclist as well.

The game loads the story mode just fine, but after a few seconds (from 10secs to about 1 minute) the game freezes and crashes, without any apparent reason.

Anyone experiencing the same problem? At first i thought it could be a scripthook problem (this time it was updated after a couple of days only, earlier than usual) or a gameconfig problem. But i'm not really sure, could be something else?

EDIT: Tried to delete the dlcpacks folder in my mods folder. Nope, it does the same thing. At least it's none of my mods.