[chogwae]

hi there,

i've been struggling with this problem all day long, so finally decided to get help from you.

the problem that I have is that the game continues to crashes on a particular calendar day with a windows ERROR message ("OOTPB2007.exe: there was an error/problem with OOTPB2007.exe. Windows has to close the problem..." something along that line). it happened to me in two separate "games".

on the first occasion, i was playing a standard league (not historical), made some trades, modified my roster, and other usual managerial stuff. then i backed-up the game (i'm a huge believer in backing up)--the entire .lg folder. then opened OOTPB again, and try to play the game. but every time i got to April 28, 2007 either by manually playing or simulating, the program crashed. i tried to use the back up files over and over again, but the same problem occurred on that particular date. i even tried to uninstall and reinstall OOTPB, to no avail.

finally, i gave up on that league, and thought that maybe i ought to try a historical league. i imported the 1999 league. this time, i tried to test out whether there was an endemic bug with OOTPB or the problem that i faced arose as the game progressed. so, first, I tried to touch nothing, and as soon as the game was created, (after backing this game up) i just simulated games. everything went fine. no crash throughout the entire year.

then, confident that the problem would not occur this time, after copying the backed-up files back to the saved games folder, i tried to play the game the way I wanted to. this time, i made some trades, roster changes, and some player name changes. then, still skeptical, i backed up this game, and tried to simulate games. lo and behold, OOTPB crashed on March 5th, 1999 this time. i tried to copy the backed up files and play through, but over and over again, the same problem occurred. on that same date, 3/5/1999. i simply could not get passed that date. whether i tried to simulate or stopped on 3/4/1999 and clicked "Finish Today" button on the lower right corner of the screen, the same problem still occurred.

does this mean that I cannot do anything to my team(s) in terms of day-to-day managerial tasks?

here are some specs on my computer:
PC
Dell Optiplex GX260
Pentium 4: 2.4Ghz
Memory: 1 GB
Windows XP, Service Pack 2

other info:
FaceGen disabled

Thanks for your help in advance. I invested a lot of time into this game already, so please help me out.

Marv