Thank you very much for the assistance, everything is normalized now. The only issue I seem to be having is that in the Abyss and Armageddon scenarios, the game gets to about October-ish in 1938 and it'll crash to the desktop pretty often. Can't seem to get past it, and those scenarios really don't have any events beyond the standard randoms that you get with any game. Is there any known fix or reason for this? I noticed it happened quite a bit when the game was paused and then unpaused, but I did let it run continuously and it crashed on its own. Not sure if it's a bug or something of the like though.
Edit: I tried running the game with the autosave turned off, as well as cleaning the save game. The problem is still present though unfortunately.