Yes, Joe, I have reinstalled multiple times, and tried dozens of other suggested solutions and ideas.
I've posted at Age Sanctuary's tech help forum weeks ago, but none of the solutions offered there helped.
I haven't bothered posting at age community since a search on the subject (another guy's games all kept going OOS as well) revealed completely rudimentary and entirely unhelpful advice that's already been tried as one of the first steps.
No worries, though, Joe. I've needed a reason to move on to another game, and this might just finally be it, assuming my last ditch effort doesn't work. That being a complete reformat of the system partition and reinstall from scratch. A painful experience I've been putting off (I hate reformats, so I normally just clone my existing system to a new drive, but in this case that's not what I need). But will have to do one of these weekends.
"One wants to be loved, failing that admired, failing that feared, failing that hated and despised. One wants to instill in other people some form of emotion. The soul shudders before emptiness and wants contact, no matter the cost."