Crashing Entering Army Warehouses CONSTANTLY Thread - Old Good STALKER Evolution mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

Alright so I'm already a bit ticked off with this mod. It's been OK thus far and I've played well over 30 hours into it.

After competing in the arena, I was BEYOND happy to find out that some stupid bug causes my flashlight to go bye-bye for good. Meaning I really can't continue on, since I kind of need the flashlight in the labs (don't feel like using night vision all the time). That already peeved me beyond belief. No, I don't have a hard save from before I fought in the arena, I didn't think I needed it. My last auto-save is corrupt since it was in the army warehouses (which I'll explain now).

I read that I can buy a flashlight from some dude in the Freedom base, so I decide to side track and waste MORE TIME going there to get a flashlight, kind of trivial if you ask me. Anyway, I'm heading to army warehouses, and during the loading screen for it - crash.

No big deal, I figure I'll just reload and try again. Nope. Crash. Again and again and again and again. Constant crashes. I can't even enter Army Warehouses at this point, since it crashes before I even get there.

What am I supposed to do now? I'm ready to just write this mod off and move on to something else. As 30 hours into it and having this happen isn't very inviting or encouraging at all, I'm not really a fan of wasting any more time on a mod that's just going to keep giving me issues.

Can anybody help me? Can I edit some trader file so that Barkeep sells flashlights? Even so, I can't access Army Warehouses and I kind of need to do that to get to Radar / Red Forest, so if that keeps crashing then the game is pretty much unplayable at this point.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks!