School Days / Shiny Days randomly freezes and crashes when trying to play

If you are experiencing random freezing and crashing while trying to play either School Days or Shiny Days, this may be caused by a few different issues. First, try the following most common problems & solutions:

• The game data is corrupt. Please reinstall the data.
• Your graphics driver needs to be updated.
• Crashing also happens in other programs? Please check the your RAM as it might be bad.

If you've ruled out all of the above possible issues, then there might be a CPU stability issue. But, there is a workaround for this problem:

1. Open your Windows Task Manager program.
2. Find SCHOOLDAYS or SHINYDAYS in the list of processes and right-click "go to details".
3. From this new list, right-click SCHOOLDAYS.exe or SHINYDAYS.exe and go to "set priority" and change it to Above Normal; and then go to "affinity" and uncheck all the CPUs except for one (CPU 0 or CPU 1).

The above workaround forces a single CPU thread to focus on the game, which helps bring stability for certain CPUs. You will have to apply these settings each time you wish to play the game.