Final Mission Bug

Hey, all --

I am a first-time poster here, but there is a huge bug up my arse right now. I've played through the entire game (not without the lovely walkthrough and the MANY helpful hints from these forums) and am now at the final battle with the aliens; however, I seem to have hit a bug because everytime I start the mission, I fly out of my base into the redness of space (go fig), Jafs starts talking about laying bombs, and the program ends. Now, I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, with/without the v14.6 patch, and even a pirated copy. No luck with ANY of them. I want to finish this flippin' game so badly, because I have put WAY too many hours into it!! Can someone please help?!!??

do you have any mods active? if so, deactivate them.

Some PCs don't get along with the ambient sounds that play in the Alien missions.

You can go into the folder <EOC Directory> /streams/audio and just temporarily rename the folder ambient. (name it "x_ambient" or something).

That solves the problem on a lot of/most systems that crash in the final mission.

Have Gun, Will Travel

Yay! It worked, and I won! Thanks bunches, MajorTom.