OK. I can answer my own question.
I quit every program except Finder (I am on a Mac)
and it loaded. This after re-starting in various degrees
of safe controls, checking the internet for stuff etc,
which may have proved too much for my massively
tweaked machine. (I doubt it)
...umm that's...
Me too. I have played FM 2011 for 1 year approx.
Its getting interesting - from job centre to ECC contenders.
Yesterday when I tried to load it went to the "load game"/"last game" etc screen
And then quit.
No game loaded = no database issue (?)
same CD/DVD
so computer? I uninstalled and...