1.5.3 crashes 'loading land surface'

[Blood-Sport]

Windows 10 x64...fully updated

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

8 Gigs Ram

NVidia GTX 750ti

 

Hangs during "loading land surface" each and every time since the upgrade to v1.5.3 a few days ago.

 

I went as far as to re-install the last version - version 1.5.2 - and it STILL did this (but it hadn't done it the day before installing v1.5.3...weird).

 

I have already tried a repair as well as multiple reinstalls of a fresh version.

 

Log attached.