So the game for the most part works for me, I started by doing Edwards vs Romney, played a 41 week game and everything went fine. Then, I fiddled around with the settings to make the game faster (turned off black outline and map glow) created a custom character and tried to use it in the Civil War scenario. Now after the VS screen when the electoral map pops up and the introduction summary appears the game appears to have crashed -- I cant click the OK button though I can still move the mouse, and I have to force quit (end task) the game. After this, even if I switch back everything and do an edwards romney matchup like the first time it still crashes like the previous time. I have to uninstall and reinstall the game to get it to work again.

I wanted to know which of the things I did may have caused this problem (fiddling with the settings, using the Civil War scenario, or using a custom character in a game). I would try to test it out myself but as you can tell it would take a really, really long time.