As promised, here are some instructions to help see if we can get to the bottom of the difficulties being encountered by Viking, Smetana and ElPayaso.
I know this looks like a lot of steps, but it's just so that I'm (hopefully) as clear as possible. The instructions shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to carry out.
Viking - You can ignore steps 1 - 5 and 14 - 17 as you have already done these.
1) Download the CSD Checker from
here (the file named
CSD Checker v1.2b2.zip). Extract the .exe file to your desktop. If using Windows Vista or 7, right-click on the .exe -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Tick the box titled 'Run this program as an adminstrator'. Click on OK.
2) Load EHM 2007 (
without using the CSD Patch). Do not click on any buttons in EHM; just leave it at the opening main menu screen.
3) Load CSD Checker. A screen will load up and it should look
exactly like this:
4) Close the CSD Checker window. In EHM, click on New Game and see what the start date appears on the League Select Screen.
If it works then you do not need to follow any more of the instructions. If it doesn't work then continue following these instructions below:
5) Exit EHM.
6) Download and install
ArtMoney (Freeware).
7) Load EHM 2007 (
without using the CSD Patch). Do not click on any buttons in EHM; just leave it at the opening main menu screen.
8) Load ArtMoney. If you are using Windows Vista or 7 then you must run as administrator (right click on the ArtMoney shortcut/exe -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Tick the box titled 'Run this program as an adminstrator'. Click on OK.)
9) Select the EHM process from the top drop-down menu in ArtMoney:
10) Click on the Search button and search for
3.0.4 text using the following search settings:
11) The search results will be displayed in the left-hand section of the window. Just to the right of the search results is a button with a blue arrow on it. Click on this button to move all of the search results to the right-hand section of the window:
12) At the bottom of the window, click on the Save button. Save the file as
304.amt.
13) At the bottom of the window, click on the Clear button. This will clear the right-hand section.
14) Click on the Search button and search for
2006 integer using the following search settings:
15) This should return approximately 180 results. Click on the blue arrow again to move the results to the right hand section.
16) At the bottom of the window, click on the Save button. Save the file as
2006.amt.
17) At the bottom of the window, click on the Clear button. This will clear the right-hand section.
18) In EHM, click on the New Game button. This will bring you to the League Select Screen.
19) In ArtMoney, click on the Search button and search for
2006 integer within the
custom range 00C60000 - 00CFFFFF like so:
20) Click on the blue arrow again to move the results to the right hand section.
21) From the menu at the top of the screen click on Edit -> Select All. This will select all of the values in right-hand section.
22) From the menu at the top of the screen click on Edit -> Set Value. In the Set Value window, enter
2007 with step
1 (ensure you do enter 1 as the step and don't miss it). Then Click on OK.
23) In EHM, click on the Select All button at the top of the League Select Screen. This is the button that selects all of the leagues as Enhanced.
24) At the bottom of the EHM screen, click on the drop down menu entitled Game Start Date. Hopefully it will look something like this:
25) Make a note of the start years listed for Finland, North America, Norway and Germany. For example, in the screenshot above the relevant years are 2010, 2012, 2032 and 2034.
26) Look through the list in ArtMoney (in the right-hand section) and find the years you noted (the four you will have noted down in step 25) within the Value column. Then make a note of the corresponding addresses for each year/value (you'll see the addresses in the Address column just to the left of the Value column). E.g. when I look up my examples, I find that Norway (2032) is 00C6AB30 and Germany (2034) is 00C6AB6E:
27) Email the following details to me:
- Your TBL username
- The 304.amt file
- The 2006.amt file
- The addresses for Finland, North America, Norway and Germany.
As a last-ditch I do have something else you could try, but let's start with the above first.
I have to admit that when redesigning the user interface and rewriting the readme file, I was frequently asking myself "is this Batdad-friendly?"! 
Ordinarily, the game would crash on 1st October if you just used that .amt file I gave you. Clearly the CSD Patch/Checker is having some effect after all because there are changes within the Patch/Checker that prevent the crashes.
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