I played just over 100 years and my game freezes on July 8, 575 every time. It not only freezes the game; it freezes my computer. Can't alt/tab out or use the task manager. Have to shut system down and restart. As the title says, I'm running Gold: Vae Victis. Vanilla version. Bought dvd from used book store - not Steam. It shows version 2.1 with the checksum JHDS. In another thread someone suggested editing the date in the save file so I tried that - to no avail. I only advanced it a few days, from july 6 to july 10. If someone has a fix I'd greatly appreciate it. Thought about advancing the date a whole year... that should expire many things that would be in effect now...