Game crashing upon startup

[Wiley]

Hi. So, I've had Feralheart on my computer for quite a while now and suddenly it won't start without crashing. It crashes immediately upon opening.
Recently, I had to reinstall windows, but it didn't seem to affect Feralheart, and the game still ran fine up until now, so I don't think that it's the cause.
I haven't added anything new to my game from the last time I played until now, so it should still be working, and I don't understand why it's not?

Modifications I have:
- Preset sync
- Various downloaded maps (about 12?)
- Legendary markings
- Legendary items
- Tigg's claws (canine only)
- A retexture for canines (not sure where it came from)
- Various downloaded mesh packs for map making (not willing to count them, but there's a lot, probably over 50)

Any idea why this is happening? I'm trying to avoid reinstalling Feralheart, so I don't have to reinstall everything else.
Can anyone help?

[Kuri]

Have you checked the "particles" sub folder to see if they've duplicated & copied themselves?  You'll know if they do because "fire.particle" "fire.particle_[1]" or something like that.  You only need one of each. if they've copied it makes it crash each time.

[Wiley]

Hm, there's a few of the water and aura particle ones, but I'm really not sure if it was like that before. It looks exactly like this:

aura.material
aura.particle
aura_0.particle
fire.material
fire.particle
flare.png
smoke.png
splash.png
star.png
water.material
water.particle
water_0.particle
water_1.particle
watersmoke.png

They don't look like they've been duplicated, but there's still several of them with the same titles. Is this how it's supposed to be?

[Azurain]

Found them. The water_0, water_1, and aura_0. Get rid of  of those.

[Wiley]

Have you checked the "particles" sub folder to see if they've duplicated & copied themselves?  You'll know if they do because "fire.particle" "fire.particle_[1]" or something like that.  You only need one of each. if they've copied it makes it crash each time.

Found them. The water_0, water_1, and aura_0. Get rid of  of those.

Huh, that was a really odd fix. Deleted them and the game works fine now.
Do you guys know why they get duplicated so I can avoid this happening in the future?

[Hakumi]

Due to various modifications, duplicate particles just seems to pop up out of nowhere.
Could be something small or something big.
Now you know what to look out for whenever you're having issues with your game at the very least ~

[Warriorstrike]

I'll lock this up for you since the problem was fixed. As stated above, it could be a number of things, although sometimes they find their way there, and there isn't a solid explanation why. I'm glad you were able to fix your game. c: