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Here's a few exploits, tricks and tips for people struggling a bit. I haven't read the entire thread, so there may be repeats in here.

1. The cause of the crashes is the mouse. Find a way to disable the mouse BEFORE the game loads, and learn the hotkeys instead. It's worth the extra effort. On that note, can somebody please post how to disable mouse in D-Fend Reloaded, which is what I'm using?

2. If you'd like to reset the game but keep your characters equipment/money, note the following. The game covers two disks. Disk 1 is the desert, Highpool, Quartz, Needles, Ag Centre, and Mine. Disk 2 is Guardian Citadel, Las Vegas, Darwin, and any of the hidden map locations. Can't remember the rest, but it's not important.

So the game states are saved in particular files, which I think are Game1 for Disk 1, and Game2 for Disk 2 (if it's not game1/2, it's another pair of files with 1 and 2 numbering). Enter a Disk 2 area, Guardian Citadel is a good choice since simply entering is not dangerous. Copy the original Game1 file off the site over the Game1 file in your directory. Then go back to the desert, and copy the original Game2 file over the one in your directory.

If all goes well, everything will be as new, except you will have your party in it's present state, including NPCs (which you can recruit duplicates of), items and money. If it screwed up, and you forgot to back up your files, you should have remembered to back up your files.

3. If you have some knowledge of how the game works, and you want a super powerful character, simply take a single character from the start of the game, who uses only melee weapons. Melee kills are double xp, and since your single character will be getting all the xp for every single kill, you'll quickly become very high level. Just take brawling 1, grind a bit in the easier areas until you get Brawling 2, and use the rest of your skill points on utility skills. With some careful planning, you can get every single skill that is even slightly useful, as long as you skip all of the various firearm skills. If you're careful, this one character can take any enemy or group of enemies in the game, without cheating. You'll need four characters at the very end of the game, but you'll find something that can help with that along the way. It needs a skill with the initials CT to use, and is in a hidden (but fairly safe) area.