Game keeps crashing at a specific date (real name fix?)

Hi

My FM2024 keeps crashing at or around a specific date when I try to process time. This only started happening 4 seasons into my save.

The only custom files I have are the sortitoutsi real name fix and player faces. SI support of course uses this as a “get out of jail free card" and just tells me to start a new game “without custom files” and refuse to help any further. Posting on the official SI forums about crashes isn't allowed any more either.

So two questions:

1. Anyone else with Real Name Fix experiencing sudden crashes?
2. Any help or ideas what to try?

I have:

deleted the edited databases

deleted the /Documents/ folder (backing up my save)

deleted the appdata folder

verify installation

If it's always the same date that the crash occurs on, have you tried holidaying past it?  That sometimes gets around it (in past FMs it did anyway).

Yeah, didn't help. I tried about 15 different times with a different combination of files, old saves, reinstalls etc. In the end I surmised it was probably that I had attempted to add a league in the middle of the save. Even going back and cancelling that didn't help though. I got tired of hitting my head against the wall and started a new save.

Just out of curiosity, what date did you get stuck on?

14th of November. I suspect it had something to do with a league I added mid-save starting exactly 1 month after that. That's just a guess, but googling the issue I came across a lot of people saying FM23 kept crashing at a specific date after they had added a league mid-save and that was the closest I ever got to diagnosing the issue.