[ovccsteve]

Okay, I've been playing OOTP for a while (since 4.5), been running 2008 (13) on this Vista machine for a few months. Recently, the computer crashed while I was playing. Now, if I try to load an existing large league, it will go through the entire process up to "Finalizing", then lock up the whole machine. I can create/load one of the smaller, standard leagues, but if I try to create a larger, standard league, it will go through the entire process, then when it comes to the "You need to create a manager" screen, clicking okay hangs up the entire computer. Sometimes, if I wait long enough, the C++ error pop-up frame will appear, but there is nothing in the frame. I have to hard reboot the computer every time. (Left it on all night last night just to make sure it wasn't a time issue.)

I've uninstalled/reinstalled three times, including turning off the computer after the uninstall, and moved the directory just to eliminate anything that might be related to that. I'm pretty sure it's a computer issue, not an OOTP issue. (I've used different downloads to install to eliminate that problem.)

Any ideas what neat Vista quirk could be behind this? thanks