Showler, I don't remember exactly how high it is. But it's like, 10 times higher than Joe Rogan during some of his podcasts! (OK, sorry, I've been watching some of Average Baters videos again....) It really is a high number tho.
Gasman, the version patcher is a background program. It really only goes into effect while the game is booting up. The only way you'd know it, is if some of the mods that had not been working previously, started working again.
However, you're not getting that far
I'm gonna say it though. The more that you describe this problem, it really does sound like hard limit crash.