I have the 1.0d installed, I then installed v6b bug fix then installed Arics expansion main, then lastly Arics expansion 1.9, there is also a constants folder which I do not have enabled. I try to start a new game, go through story mode, set everything I want when I click start it starts to load gets 50% to 75% then game crashes to desktop.
I don't see a crash report section thought I would try to look for help here.
Strive is currently distributed with a normal executable, which doesn't log anything when it crashes upon a substantial error. There is a Debug mod(https://itch.io/t/1137280/debugmod-v10d) which will provide error messages and avoid crashing by aborting smaller sections of the game with errors rather than aborting the entire program. The percentages are not correlated to any specific features, but the first few error messages will likely indicate what went wrong, followed by an avalanche of errors resulting from parts of the game being aborted.
If I were to guess, I'd say that the cause was the mod folder name, as Aric's Expansion references the contents of the folder as "AricsExpansion" and anything else will break a lot of things. When downloaded from GitHub the name of the folder is altered, which often causes problems. Most other common problems don't quite fit your report as they tend to have errors reported by the mod system or crash the game upon starting.
There should be no functional difference between the 64 bit and 32 bit versions of the game, except that the 64 bit game will not run on a 32 bit computer, but those don't really get used anymore. I didn't notice that you were installing duplicates of the mod until you mentioned there being a 3rd mod. The GitHub main and 1.9 should be mostly the same though the GitHub version may have fixed one or two things. Either way, installing two versions of the mod is a sure way to cause problems.
