Fix it already!! i wanna play im so far in im not about to restart!

Oh not a fix, just letting people know. I figured I would do the leg work and test it out as I wanted to play and see.

I'm experiencing the same problem. Try to load a save game in Eastern Island and it crashes after the loading screen completes. Zero problems before 1.7.

1.7 should be immediately removed from Steam until this is resolved. I can't believe this made it past 1C's QA...

Vista 64bit.

Just adding here, I'm having the same problem.

My old saves are half the level of my current character so I'm not interesting in re-playing from an old save nor am I going to start from scratch.

I'd appreciate some speed in the fix for this. I've paid for a game I cannot (for all intents and purposes) play.

Would be nice to have some sort of ETA for this.
Tried to play just now, only to find out that non of my saves are working.

Please do inform us on when we can expect a fix on this problem.