About that crashing I get something weird - when I start the game from the start menu this tbl bug appears and the loading crashes, but when I access from the launcher or start the game by manually presiing "enter" on the executable everything works fine...
FRED works ok, but some ships like Ja'dul cause it to crash when I'm using outlines, when I turn them off everything works ok...
Some of the new monstrous ships like DH Mothership take ages to show up in techroom, but no crashes experienced
( my system specs are antique

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What's more I tried most of the new ships in a test mission and everything works correctly...
New Whitestar and other ISA ships rock

The DH Destroyer, Xill and Xorr lack description in techroom...
The only problem that annoys me are the missing thruster glows in all player piloted craft

Any clues what can cause that

Using FSOpen 3.6.7 and FRED which came with TBP 3.2