<t> What he said +1<br/>
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As a new player myself in such a niche market opinions count as there is far too little coverage. Timotheus has his opinion and he's entitled to it. He raises the classic old chestnut of a question scripted v sandbox. 2by3 are dammed if they do and damned if they don ...

<t> I note this fix for anyone else experiencing sudden lock/freeze ups. I ran a CODEC clean-up program and discovered I had two corrupt codec fragments. I then installed the latest k-lite codec pack. Happy bunny now<br/>
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I love this program too much to play it in total silence <br/>
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Ok after reading another thread by stultus I have tracked the problem to a sound file. Renaming my SOUND folder (and playing without sound) fixes the crash. Now I just need to sort out why

Is this just me?