Are you using Vista?
My experience with OOTP 8 and 9 with XP was rock solid. Virtually zero crashes. That covered a wide range of machines, RAM, disk space and AV/firewall programs. Frankly I had not seen a crash of significance since v2006.
The experience with Vista has been one of extremes. OOTP 9 ran flawlessly on a new desktop for 3 months. Inexplicably it started crashing as described in the first two links below. A complete uninstall, defrag, registry cleaning, updates and diagnostic, resulted in it working for about a week. Since then it crashes only when I access the FA page. Either by the button or through the menu/manager page. What concerns me is each crash provides fairly detailed info in the log yet no one seems to be able to use that info to pinpoint the cause. What are such logs used for?
At the other end OOTP 9 works fine on my employers Vista laptop. This box has less RAM less diskspace and more armour protection than some military fortresses, yet OOTP works like a charm.
There are a few things I do know about my crashes.
- It is not a corrupt file, database or HDD. I successfully copied leagues from my problem Vista desktop to other computers and they work fine.
- Except for the item that crashes OOTP, the game works fine. I have downloaded and updated my online leagues successfully on the problem machine. I have simmed and played games in my solo leagues. As long as I don't access the FA page, everything works normally.
- The crashes have no effect on whatever league file is loaded. It seems as if the file isn't really there. If I dont save the file before a crash it reloads exactly as it was. OTOH I can sim, or make roster moves and save, then the "new" file will be loaded the next time I try.
I'm not sure this info is useful but thought it was worth adding to the list.
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...eze-vista.html
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...wing-data.html