Game freezes are, most likely, winblows' fault!
This has been discovered by Oin during the "Project Oin".
Oin is a dwarf who has decided to reach the highest level possible. He is level 2350 currently
Now, Oin has to control his stats, namely INT, so that he gets only one skill point per level and fills his skill table as slow as possible.
Therefore, Oin is diseased all the time. The disease lowers his stats continuously but it does not work enough fast. Therefore, every day I wake up in the morning, I start the game with Oin on some safe place and go to work. When I return, Oin's stats are lowered by 15 or so, so that we can continue the project.
It often happens that I come from my work and find the game hanging. The only thing I can do is pressing 'esc' and sending Big Bill to hell (and to even worse places) again. There's nobody in sight who can be suspected from manipulating the computer!
Let us summarize. The game was started successfuly and it was running in the morning. Nobody has touched the keyboard or the mouse all the time. And now, the game is hanging. The only game activity was changing the daylight but the game has never caught crashing when it changes daylight. The only other active "process" is - winblows.