Crashes On Start Spring

After creating a new association, I got as far as the screen with "Click to Start the Spring". When I click that a progress bar comes up and gets as far as about 90-92% then the game crashes with a Windows error message.

I'm using a Windows 8 Asus laptop with 2.4 Ghz Duo-core CPU. I got the error codes Windows produced here:Problem signature:
 Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
 Application Name: PureSimBaseball.exe
 Application Version: 6.0.0.611
 Application Timestamp: 52e52c2a
 Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
 Fault Module Version: 6.2.9200.16578
 Fault Module Timestamp: 515fac6e
 Exception Code: c0000005
 Exception Offset: 00051c10
 OS Version: 6.2.9200.2.0.0.768.101
 Locale ID: 1033
 Additional Information 1: 2bb0
 Additional Information 2: 2bb0a10e120f77fd7da2a69ec129d865
 Additional Information 3: 011a
 Additional Information 4: 011a2b3cb4c865c4ae7c7715139713c7

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Hopefully this is enough to find out what's causing the error and get it fixed as I'd really love to try this game.