The symptom
Native candidates could save and then hang or crash during teardown or a late activation after a minimized session.
What was tried
Failed builds, close traces and controlled comparisons were retained. A timer guard was followed by a separately tested post-commit activation guard.
What the evidence supports
CH records three ordinary exact-candidate exits, clean logs and all fifty-nine original profiles restored. The older failures were not rewritten as passes.
The lesson
Test the released bytes, normal shutdown and cold reopen. One clean exit does not close an intermittent bug.
Evidence & perspective
- CE: the game needed to know when to leave
CE records eight ordinary exits, including three exact-package checks, and preservation of 59 real profile files. A later activation fault required another repair before CH. Earlier failed candidates remain failures.
- CH: four original buildings reach the public county
CH contains four original exteriors, reuses five scoped building routes, and passed three normal candidate exits with 59 profile files restored. The current Windows download was checked for its exact published size. These are bounded PC checks, not minimum-spec or whole-game acceptance.