ill be honest. i watched 3 different channels. and Geoffrey's were the easiest to understand. also there wasn't anything he showed that could possibly be not updated. everything was updated and the installs were easy. the issue came when i downloaded and installed everything from his part 3 video which goes into ELS, Custom Vehicles, script hook V, and simple trainer.
if it was something with the folder i feel that would have been an issue from the start. once again i'm veery new to this so i followed step by step tutorials yesterday for 5+ hours. the only time GTA stopped loading was after part 3 of the tutorial. it gets all the way to the final loading screen and right before it loads me into the map it crashes.