So he decided to do what Rockstar wouldn't: rebuild the foundation while the house was still standing.
Over the next three weeks, Silent built a spreadsheet. He called it "VC's Wounds." SilentPatchVC.zip
He found the first wound at offset 0x004C7A31 — the infamous "streaming memory" bug. The game loaded assets into RAM but never freed them properly. Every 20 minutes, the heap overflowed, and the engine panicked. So he decided to do what Rockstar wouldn't: