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About two weeks ago I installed SH3 and the 1.4B update in Vista and had the same problem. I don't recall the error details, but my game was crashing at the exact moment you described.

I got the game to work with minimal effort, although I don't remember what I did. I believe I may have ran the update as the administrator by right clicking on the installer and selecting "Run as administrator."

I use an administrator user account, but I believe the "Run as administrator" command is superior. I may be wrong, but I believe Vista has both an "administrator" account and an "Administrator" (with a capital "a") account.

I suppose you could give that a try. When I did that, I think the 1.4B update was already installed and I had just installed it again with the "Run as administrator" command. A complete uninstall and reinstall of the game was not necessary. I wish I remember exactly what I had done to resolve the issue. The solution, at least in my case, was very simple.