Looks like Sid's game has lost some steam. I've played my second full game patched. Managed to get a guy to 86 years old with 1,800,000+ in gold. When it was turning over so much data, full fleet of East Indiaman class ships, royal sloop as a flagship, the game crashed to the desktop twice - gave me a fatal error message twice. Then it refused to initialize DX. I had to reboot to get the game to start. Once, I had to reinstall DX.
It just didn't want to carry the load.
It just didn't want to carry the load.