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@PermissionToLand Yeah I had figured that ensuring the proper structure would be necessary, so I was trying to follow how it was handled in the original file. I knew it was a possibility that I messed it up in some way or another but I tried a few times being more careful each time and kept having the same results, but technically I was never completely sure if I was doing it right.

This response made me more confident that I was in fact doing it correctly since I was making sure to copy only the contents within those sections and pasting them in the corresponding sections in the main file. It was a similar deal with the handling.meta file except that there was only one section to keep track of. Of course I still can't be entirely sure I didn't mess something up anyways.

It is confusing why Enhanced would be handling these sorts of files differently enough to result in a crash. I guess the only test I could do is try to reproduce all of these steps on the Legacy version, including manually placing the DLC handling.meta and vehicles.meta data in the main handling.meta and vehicles.meta, making sure it works since I know it must be able to, and then using those same versions of handling.meta and vehicles.meta in the Enhanced version and seeing if it still breaks.

@PermissionToLand An update on this, in case this info proves useful in some future troubleshooting. Copying over vehicles.meta data for both mp24_2 and mp25, which was my initial attempt, caused a crash on the loading screen (tried loading a few times just to make sure it wasn't a fluke since I'm used to crashes happening before the loading screen even appears if something is wrong). I then tried to just copy over the data from mp25, since the handling data from mp25 seemed to cover the remaining vehicles apart from the Enhanced specific ones, and the game did start, although the vehicles from that group could no longer be spawned or appear in traffic.

Seeing that the data from mp24_2 caused a crash, I wondered if maybe that was the issue with the dlcpacks approach, so I attempted going that route again just for mp2025_01, without bothering with mp2024_02. That caused the same sort of crash on startup as before, though. Trying to get this mod working in parity with Legacy on Enhanced is proving to be impossible, unfortunately. It's working well enough to my satisfaction to keep using it, but I'll have to live with some limitations and inconsistencies. Hopefully documenting some of this experimentation and trial and error provides some kind of use, though.

@PermissionToLand So a brief update, sorry about the double post. Modifying files within the dlc_patch folder for mp2024_02 doesn't seem to have any effect. Since there wasn't an mp2025_01 folder, I tried seeing if making one from scratch with the right file structure would do anything as well, but unsurprisingly that had no effect either.

Ultimately I just tried the last suggestion, editing the main handling.meta file. I used notepad++ to copy the data from the handling.meta file in the mp25 folder, and paste it into the main handling.meta file. It seems to work for all the vehicles listed, checking quickly using the Rampage Trainer to spawn vehicles from the Money Fronts update. Vehicles listed in the Gen 9 Update DLC section still have vanilla handling though, which I'm not sure if it's because the mp24_2 folder doesn't have a handling.meta file or because maybe it's a group of vehicles that were never in the Legacy version and thus don't have any updated handling anywhere in the mod. I don't necessarily know which folders correspond with which updates because that's something I never really kept up with.

In any case this does significantly improve coverage of modded handling, so I'll consider it a success. Do you think copying data from vehicles.meta for these specific DLCs in the main vehicles.meta file would have a similar effect, adding the improved vehicle damage and other modified features to those vehicles as well?

@PermissionToLand Enhanced does have those DLC folders, I just got detailed about recreating the file structures because ordinarily I only had update/update.rpf in the mod folder. I kind of got thrown off after copying over all the files within the dlc_patch folder in CodeWalker and finding that some of the files needed to go in a totally separate area.

There is indeed a folder for mp2024_02 in the dlc_patch folder, though it has a slightly different file structure from the dlcpacks folder, so it seems to handle different assets (not sure if that matters though, given what you said). There isn't a counterpart for mp2025_01 in the dlc_patch folder.

I'll try some different options and let you know if anything works. Maybe that can help compile a set of instructions for installing this mod for Enhanced. Part of the reason I was so specific in my post was that reading people's troubleshooting comments have helped me figure out how to do some stuff manually before, lol.