Just out of my experience to help random crashes:
1. Loading from "Before mission" saves usually leads to crash. I only load from in-patrol saves or "After mission" saves
2. My HD goes into sleep after a few minutes of inactivity. I always moves my mouse from time to time to keep it from going into sleep. I found that helps out a lot.
3. When you quit in the middle of a patrol using "save and exit patrol". That save is often corrupted somehow. So for every patrol, I always have 3 normal saves and one called "dump" that I do "save and exit" on. So next time I reload my patrol, I always load the one above "dump"
My load usually takes about 6-7 minutes (the red progressive bar). If there is a crash during loading, it would always be between 70% and 75%. If it passes the 75% mark, I know that I would definitely get a good load. So around 70% I would move mouse around more actively to prevent HD going into sleep or idle mode.
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