So I made an unfortunate mistake of just getting really frustrated and deleting my entire GTA V directory without saving logfiles or crash reports, or even validating my steam files. I just wanted to come here and ask if anybody has experience the slow degradation of their modified game files. It started with simple things, like invisible peds and duplicating officers, and then certain keys stopped working until I reloaded plugins, ex: traffic stops pressing E would not make the ped pullover faster, or make them pick a new spot, sometimes pressing F to exit my vehicle would end the traffic stop, and then pressing E would randomly start working half way through a traffic stop when it hadn't been working before causing all sorts of frustration. It all went to hell when police stations were on the map but could not be entered pressing E. If I reloaded plugins it would work, but then there was a 50/50 chance of being stuck loading when pressing go on duty, and then once I got on duty, if I scrolled past LSSD in the garage my ped would stand there with no vehicle and I would be unable to scroll further or do anything other than restart the game.

 

All this happened without me making any changes to INI or setting in-game or changing anything at all. Just a slow death which culminated in me wanting to give up on modding entirely. I tried removing mods and reinstalling LSPDFR, disabling my mods folder, deleting plugins. I completely forgot to check integrity of game files.... I guess what I am trying to get at here is, why did my game slowly get more and more corrupted until it died without me making any changes.

TLDR; My game slowly got worse and worse until becoming basically unplayable without restarting the game every 10-15 minutes. Everything worked flawlessly when I had finished installing all the mods I wanted, I changed nothing once I had everything working correctly, but things slowly got worse and worse, until I started deleting folders and reinstalling things culminating in me deleting my entire GTA V directory in stupid frustration.

Question. WHY IS THE WORLD SO CRUEL?!?!?!?

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