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Do you hear some 'dings'?


No.

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Did you try to switch to desktop when it's stuck ?


No -- I can leave it completely alone and it'll still crash to the desktop.

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Did you delete all the files in the savegame directory ? because 5 directories are not savegames but part of the game files in there.


No, I haven't. Both the directory for my save and all 5 bd_act*_start directories are there.