Okay,
So I'm running Antipodes 8. For the nth time I'm testing a mission I'm FREDding for a little mod. Debug FRED gives me no errors with the mission. I go to the techroom, click the "mission simulator" button... and the game freezes. A few seconds later, it CTDs. Puzzled, I run the game again, and the same thing happens as soon as I click "accept" at the pilot selection screen. Only then do I think to run a debug build. I run a debug build, create a new pilot, go to the techroom, and it crashes in the same spot as the first time. This log is uploaded as fs2_open_with_mod.log. I try this three times, no change. I remove the mission I was supposed to test from my missions folder, no change. I change my mod to only the 3.6.12 mediavps, no change. This log is uploaded as the regular fs2_open.log. I seek help from the awesomeness of the HLP community.

EDIT: See fourth post for current problem.
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