When i tried to start a new game up, hit start and it went to the loading bar and not even a tenth of the way through it stalled and crashes. does anyone know whats happened
Which version are you using, which pak (pak64 I guess)? With what input do you start the game (like number of cities, climates etc.). A screenshot of the input might be handy. Apart from the crash, are there any messages? If you start simutrans with the options "-debug -log 1" the game gives some information about the crash, e.g. a traceback and a logfile simu.log. Dropping both here might help answering your question.
i reduced some of the start settings and it worked
The same thing happens to me.Except no matter what I try, the game keeps stalling. >:(
Then I suggest to use default settings: Delete the file "default.sve" in your USer directions/Simutrans and start the game.