fix(core/rdr3): block custom startup.meta file #3318
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Goal of this PR
Fix an issue where users having a custom startup.meta file inside of their Red Dead Redemption or Red Dead Online installation would lead to the game failing to load correctly.
How is this PR achieving the goal
By preventing the game from acknowledging the files existance. Tested with problematic startup.meta file placed in x64/data/ of my Red Dead Online installation (which is used by redm). In normal conditions this file would never exist and the function would normally return false as is. So no
This PR applies to the following area(s)
RedM
Successfully tested on
Game builds: 1491
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Checklist
Fixes issues