[endgame]

All right. Update. Simmed to 12/31. Disabled FaceGen. Closed Game. Restarted Game. Simmed to 01/01/2012. Went another day to see if the almanac would generate. It didn't. Went to Almanac Settings. They were now all turned off (unchecked). Don't ask me why that happened.

Generate the Almanac through the pulldown menu. It's still going on, but having skipped the Preparing Players, Updating Pics phase, it appears it will finish without problem (knock on wood).

I plan to reactive FaceGen once the process completes. Having gone through this, I'm not sure how much I'll actually use the Almanac - not having seen it yet - but it may not be worth these hurdles. Cato was that way too, though. You learn to live with it if it's important to you. Secondly, I don't know if the update pics will work at all, yet alone at year's end. I'll have to try that at a later date if I don't have an answer on the uploaded file (when it can upload).

In any event, that's the process getting there, as complete as I know it. We will see.