Dracula campaign 2 crashing when opening a save

If I start a new game for Dracula's second campaign in The Forgotten, it will start and play fine. If I save, then close down and come back to it later, it won't even initiate. Hit "Load" and then the game goes straight to desktop. There's no error message, no crash dump anywhere I can find. I've verified integrity, it just... doesn't wanna. And that's a bit of a longer campaign so I can't just sit there for multiple hours trying to beat it in one run! I've updated to the latest Nvidia driver in case that was doing it but no love there either.