EDIT: This is a PARTIAL fix, This allows custom textures to work, but may break some other mods. I was really starting to get ticked that I could not use mods that changed textures, BECAUSE Archive Invalidation would always crash the game on start. I dove into about 5 different forums, including this one, and was able to piece together a fix! Using several of the people's issues and "fixes" I found the underlaying problem. Here is how to get rid of that pesky problem. 1. go to your installation folder. 2. go to Data 3. go to Menus 4. go to main 5. DELETE hud_main_menu.xml Something hiding in that file causes the crashing. I was too lazy to figure it out. Since it doesn't seem to do anything else to the game, I didn't bother looking for the code messing it up.