Fan Patch V1.42 should allow you to set the game at resolutions beyond 1920x1080. As for your preparations, that doesn't sound like it'd break the game. I threw in 25-50 7x Scaffolds, 2.5mil Wood and Food, countless Miracle Seeds, and I don't even know how many villagers on my last playthrough...
That's really weird indeed. When I quicksave during throwing things into the vortex, everything still goes through. Are you sure none of the stuff is falling down the giant mountain your temple is set on in Land 2?
Yikes. I've heard of Land 5 crashing a lot but this is taking it to a whole new level. Maybe you overprepared and all the stuff that has to come through the vortex is what's causing the game to crash when trying to load Land 5. If you made backups of your saves before deleting them, try...
It's normal when you run in windowed mode. If you run it in fullscreen the images show up normally. Either way the manual saves function just fine even if the thumbnail is bright pink.
It sounds like this problem has been cropping up recently and I wouldn't know how to fix it, unfortunately, as I didn't run into any such problems on a Windows 10 machine. Installing the Patches and Creature Isle went smoothly, and arguably Creature Isle has been even more stable for me than the...
Seems to crash the game when trying to apply the changes. The AI symbol changer seems to work, as when the game crashes I can see the different symbols having been applied.