Crash when capturing Frigates

[Diemos]

Apologies if this was already discussed... I did not find it...

I get a crash of ENGINE.EXE whenever I board and capture <i>any </i>Frigate. The boarding and fighting goes fine, but the games crashes prior to the padlock icon being displayed.

This happens wether I choose to loot the ship, or not and does not occur on any other ship type (so far (not got 'em all yet, I'm sure)). Once the crew is dead, the crash occurs after a few seconds.

I do get other occasional random crashes (thankfully few and far between), but this one is 100% reproducible

Win 7 RC1 (updated Tages)

Mods:
Modded game start files to give Rat Idol and Uber 'scope (which is awesome, btw <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="bow.gif" /> ), otherwise default.
Renamed Crosshair.tga.tx to Crosshair.tga.tx_ORG to eliminate the view obscuring 1st person sight (shooting 3rd person)

Playing Ian Stance/Sailor/Few Encounters

 

[kevinwastaken]

I've started getting this bug too... I didn't identify it with frigates until I read this, but my most recent save, every time I load (it's right before boarding) I beat the enemy really quick and it crashes. Before when it crashed upon capture, I'd reload until it works. now it's not looking like it will ever work. I've reloaded 4 times, about to try it a 5th.

I'm on Vista, have only modded some textures, dialogue, and ship prices.