I think this can be closed now -- I'm no longer able to reproduce the issue, after updating my mainboard's BIOS. I left the game running for ~6 hours, and it didn't crash once since the update.

My best guess is that this was a fairly new board and they didn't iron out all the kinks at launch. My ...

Steps like: "set auto-save to 1 minute, load this save file, wait 1 minute and 17 seconds and it crashes on running auto-save"?


Unfortunately for troubleshooting (but fortunately for my gameplay), I've not been able to reproduce it consistently. Whenever I load an earlier save, I don't see it ...

Been running this save quite a while now, have a pretty large base running city blocks & trains. I realized way too far into the game that my train stations were set up slightly sub-par (intersections were too large, on & off ramps could be placed better), so of course I went ahead & tried to fix ...