[propbeanie]

A couple of other points: If you have a Save with a "Save Replay", that will make a ~HUGE~ save file, and for the rest of a career, that will stay in there, and requires more and more data to keep up with, almost like that no matter what your choice is after the one Save Replay, they will ~all~ Save with Replay. The Replay can be used with a Single Mission, but should not be used in career mode. Select your most recent numbered Save folder (C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4 \data \cfg \xxxxxxxx" with "x" representing numbers and letters for hexidecimal digits.

There are a couple of mods that have un-terminated Random Generated Groups (RGG) that will cause issues with the game from early to mid 1943 onwards. If you had one of those mods activated earlier, and had cleared the Save folder afterwards, those groups can still exist in your Save folder...

I'll look in my Stock game again, but I do not remember seeing those RGG there...