Help troubleshooting mod crashes please?

[Harvest]

I'm playing AP on Windows 7 x64, i5 @ 3.3ghz, ATI 5870, 8gb ram.

I'm still new at this but I'm having major issues with any mod that isn't a script.

Qwizzie's Visual Revamp Mod crashes my game after about 3 minutes.

The combination of Connary's Immersive Environments and Moonrat's IEX crashes the game after about 20 minutes.

Cycrow's cheat package doesn't crash the game.

So I'm believing that there's something wrong with my system or my game. Mods are a no go. Scripts are fine. I tried each of the mods that I'm interested in one at a time and made note of the behavior, and they all uniformly caused crashes.

So far what I've done is delete and redownload TC and AP from Steam. This didn't seem to have any effect. I updated all my drivers (and then reverted the ATI driver when it made stuff slower). I ran Windows Update. I yelled at my cat because nothing made a difference .

So now I'm posting here for advice. I figure this is a better spot than technical support due to the nature of the crashes I'm getting.

[killerog]

What game ap or tc ? There is no crashing problem with the TC version of my trails mod. Not tested the AP version enough to say for sure if that is crash free yet.

Is that with my mod on its own ?

[Harvest]

It's AP.

I'm trying with the version of the mod I got from your downloader. I saw you mention it in the Visual Revamp thread.

[Harvest]

I take back what I said about your mod Killerog. Turns out I didn't even have it working at all. I have tried the files as 03.cat/dat in the addon folder, and as 14.cat/dat in the TC folder but nothing happens. Gonna edit that out of the first post. I had just assumed I wasn't close enough to other ships to see the trails