Since about a month ago, whenever I tried to load into story mode with mods my game would crash. I changed the mods folder to "_mods" from what I saw on the forum, and it worked and allowed me to load into story mode and load LSPDFR, Axon Bodycam, etc, but none of my cars that I installed from OpenIV are working, nor is my EUP Menu working since it says I don't have EUP installed. Help would be greatly appreciated. 

Also, yes, it has worked before I played LSPDFR with multiple mods, addon vehicles, and EUP installed without issue for about a year and a half, but all of a sudden one day in late august nothing worked, so it isn't my first time using OpenIV and installing vehicles and addons.

Renaming the mods folder to _mods renders your mods disabled, therefore they will not work. If you had a crash loading into game and renaming it fixed your issue, you will need to undo recent changes, or effectively go through every mod to see which one is causing your crash, unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to tell you which mod is defective in your mods folder.

1 hour ago, cherryaerie said:

Renaming the mods folder to _mods renders your mods disabled, therefore they will not work. If you had a crash loading into game and renaming it fixed your issue, you will need to undo recent changes, or effectively go through every mod to see which one is causing your crash, unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to tell you which mod is defective in your mods folder.

I forgot to mention, that I switched it back from "_mods" and story mode launched perfectly fine, but none of my vehicles from OpenIV were there nor was EUP. Also, I'm not sure if this has something to do with it but I did replace my dinput8 and d3d9 files, because I was following a tutorial on how to get story mode to launch without crashing and that's what it told me to do.

Just now, DonutOperator said:

because I was following a tutorial on how to get story mode to launch without crashing and that's what it told me to do.

If needed I can link the YouTube Video.

Screenshot the whole window of your Main Directory.

On 9/16/2024 at 3:55 PM, UnknownBastion said:

Screenshot the whole window of your Main Directory.

Sorry, I couldn't get my whole main directory in one photo.

Also sorry for the late ass response.

Sorry for the late response

On 9/15/2024 at 7:03 AM, DonutOperator said:

I forgot to mention, that I switched it back from "_mods" and story mode launched perfectly fine, but none of my vehicles from OpenIV were there nor was EUP. Also, I'm not sure if this has something to do with it but I did replace my dinput8 and d3d9 files, because I was following a tutorial on how to get story mode to launch without crashing and that's what it told me to do.

On 9/15/2024 at 7:03 AM, DonutOperator said:

Well, yes. Renaming mods to _mods disables the mods folder. That's the entire point of renaming it. To figure out where the problem is. If your game then loads normally, then you know it's something you installed that broke your installation.

You really shouldn't be touching any dinput8 or d3d9 files. It's possible whatever you did has erased the ASI loader. You can reinstall this in OpenIV or by downloading SHV and making sure you copy over the dinput8.dll file.

15 hours ago, Cyan said:

Well, yes. Renaming mods to _mods disables the mods folder. That's the entire point of renaming it. To figure out where the problem is. If your game then loads normally, then you know it's something you installed that broke your installation.

Yeah, I didn't realize what renaming the folder did at the time, either way, it didn't change anything. It loaded perfectly fine with and without the mods folder (IIRC). I never installed anything from when I stopped playing to when I restarted playing, which was only over about 2 weeks, besides a beanbag mod that turned shotguns non-lethal and all I did was change a shotgun meta file in OpenIV.

The only reason I touched the dinput8 and d3d9 files was that story mode wasn't loading I looked up and found someone with a similar issue and saw their solution which I copied, which was copying the dinput8 and d3d9 files that were in my System file on my PC and putting them into the GTA5 Folder, it fixed my issue but nothing from OpenIV decided to load, but I had all my plugins that were in my GTA 5 main directory.