Comment is two-fold:

I was having trouble initially getting the checksums to line up correctly and through a number of trials and errors, uninstalling and re-installing attempts managed to finally get the correct one to show up for the new path and update. However, the game is still crashing regularly, especially when the year 8300 is used as the starting date. I tried to apply the possible fix y'all were kind enough to post but interestingly enough by changing that one small section of code it offset the entire checksum again. When I replaced it with the original, the checksum was back to what it was supposed to be but I'm still suffering from CTD a lot of the time, to the point where its getting hard to play unfortunately. Any other advice on what might help given this information?

- Cheers