not seen any exe patcher...
anyway, yeah my version is steam... at first i thought that might of been the problem, so i went and.... got a *non-steam* copy to test if it had same crashing issue, it is 1.2 and fully working etc, and it crashed just the same... although since i did pay for the game id rather use steam if i can haha
anyway.. if i have to, i guess i could copy over the exe... will kinda stuff up my achievements though

*guess it doesn't really matter*
*EDIT*
well actually it does matter now that i have thought about it, wouldn't be able to play online... blah!
*EDIT AGAIN
really sorry if i shouldn't be talking about this stuff guys..
but did some checking, and found there is no protection or need for the disc at all to play the game, as long as you have a valid key registered on your ubi account.
so i uninstalled steam, and then installed sh5 off of the disc, ran the updater and got it to 1.2, started the game and it logged into my ubi account right away.. game is working fine.
so you can now forget about my previous comments, i am no longer running the steam version.
guess i can try this exe patch now..... will see if i can find it somewhere