RF2 freezes after track is loaded

Hi,

after 5 months without any problems, today my RF2 inexplicably, abruptly, suddenly, devastatingly broke

With any car and any track, the track loads correctly, reaches the end of the loading screen...then when I try to select "garage" or when I try to get on track, the whole thing freezes. If i click two or three times it crashes to desktop.

Any idea?
I am really disappointed

edit: last lines of trace file:

69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=18 name="James Munro" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=18 gar=0 qual=8
69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=19 name="Dakota Dickerson" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=19 gar=0 qual=16
69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=20 name="Anthony Martin" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=20 gar=0 qual=14
69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=21 name="Nikita Lastochkin" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=21 gar=0 qual=1
69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=22 name="Michai Stephens" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=22 gar=0 qual=4
69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=23 name="Ayla Agren" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=23 gar=0 qual=24
69.15s steward.cpp 5887: slot=24 name="Robert Megennis" session=1 et=0.000 pobq=0 parking=255 pit=24 gar=0 qual=25
69.15s camera.cpp 5370: Entered CamMan::Restart()
69.15s camera.cpp 5383: Entered CamMan::SyncWithDynMan()
69.15s camera.cpp 5387: LoadCamsFromVehicleData, MgrInx = 1044, SlotID = 0
69.15s camera.cpp 5399: Entered CamMan::UpdateSuperShadowParameters()
69.15s camera.cpp 5402: Exit CamMan::Restart()
69.15s render.cpp 2229: Entered Render::Restart()
69.15s onscreen.cpp 4229: Entered OnScreen::Restart()
69.15s vidman.cpp 2339: Entered VidMan::Restart()
70.28s plrfile.cpp 2923: Entered PlayerFile::Restart()
70.28s JNILog.cpp 32: DataPlugin: Received 15148 bytes of data.
70.28s game.cpp 2416: Entering DYN
70.28s weather.cpp 2556: Sending event SessionName "Practice"
70.28s queue.cpp 2270: Event SessionName "Practice"
70.40s JNILog.cpp 32: LoadingStatus: not loading

 

never mind, I performed a human sacrifice and that seemed to satisfy the deities, as RF2 now works.