Game crash April 2020 - How I fixed

Hey all, 

I see a lot of forum messages about game crashes at the moment - funnily enough I wanted to check as my load suddenly started crashing with a GTA unexpected error and not much in the log files to help. I thought there may have been a recent update from RockStar maybe I have seen that before with that. So here is what I did to fix. 

As I have a vanilla install, a mod install and a TestBed install I used the TestBed to try and fix without loosing all my installed plugins / settings and mods I have spent hours and days getting stable. 

I have not played for a couple of weeks and found there was a new Rage Plugin Hook and ScriptHook recently. But these updates did not fix the crashing. 

So I wiped my TestBed install (I use TestBed to test mods or my own code without breaking my existing game install of LSPDFR)

I then copied GTA 5 vanilla back to the test bed

Installed Rage hook and Scripthook

(Fired up the TestBed to check it was working) - (OK so far)

Copied everything from my mod game to my TestBed game, selecting to not overwrite existing files 

TestBed worked with all my mods, configs and settings (OK - good)

Deleted everything in my mod install, and copied the whole of TestBed back to my mod folder

So a couple of hours faff but now back up and running again. 

Not sure if this will help everyone but, this may be the quickest way to fix the current issue if you can. 

Don't have a separate install to play with? Rename your current GTA folder and re-download from steam - that way you can do similar without losing all your mods and configs

I recommend keeping a vanilla install separate to help with issues like this. 

I hope this helps, but if someone has an easier / better method I am open to suggestions. 

One day, when I get time I will share how I switch between different installs - but that is a little complicated with .bat files and switching folders.