Just disable 3D items in options if they're causing problems on your machine. Doesn't matter if you remove yours, someone else playing in the same room would cause the same problem.
I doubt it's a poly issue, all items are pretty low in that regard, it's more likely to be a GPU VRAM issue or similar.
The officer cap was one of the first items, since then a lot of changes happened to how textures work and newer items take advantage of it. It's 50/50 on if an item will cause an issue if you have problems with them, entirely depends on how it was made.