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[ThirdMurderer]

Having learned a lot from my most recent fort, I decided that I would abandon and start a new one that would hopefully not be designed so poorly. However, the game gets as far as "Sorting historical figures..." and then crashes. The save never goes anywhere and I can continue playing from where I last saved as if nothing had happened.

[Toady One]

In what way does it crash?  Any popup windows?  Playing on from an old crashing save is going to get you a unit corruption message after some point, so it's important to use proper backups as described in release_changes.txt.  The saves don't survive crashes very well as there are always files being changed.

[ThirdMurderer]

The only thing that pops up is Windows XP's little "do you want to report this to Microsoft?" window.

[Genuine]

Try abandoning a few more times. Although it seems like it shouldn't work, I had a fort once that I wanted to abandon that would crash when I tried to. After 3 or 4 unsuccessful attempts that resulted in the game crashing, it managed to abandon successfully.

[Toady One]

I guess a hist fig or site got corrupted somehow, but it's not really clear how or when.  I'll have to wait on this one.