I have a similar issue. Installed Fifi's Steel Coffins on my Win-11 laptop and it loaded in minutes, ran fine and looked great. Then Win-11 updated and now it crashes to desktop right when the "Initialising" screen should appear.
Curiously, Stock SH3 runs fine as does Steel Coffins with the Black Sea only activated. The Windows event logger classifies the crash as an error 1000 event in module ntdll.dll. An Internet search for a solution has produced a rash of conflicting possible actions and no consistent explanation or likely fix. I have spent hours tweaking compatibility, memory, file integrity and graphic settings with zero results and am ready to just remove SH3 entirely.
SH4 with FOTRS-U runs flawlessly on the laptop and looks spectacular.
Steel Coffins runs perfectly on my Win-7 desktop but takes north of 20-minutes just to load, which sucks the fun out of the otherwise outstanding Mod.
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