Saved games weirdness in LOMAC v1.02

[Alexrey]

Whenever I try and load a saved game, once it's gotten into the world, I unpause it and wait for a bit. The first time I tried this the game "un-hung" (is that even a proper word?) after about a minute and I could play on perfectly, but the second time I tried this I waited for about 3 minutes and nothing happened. I know that it's a know issue that saves don't work in 1.00/1.01/1.02. But I find it weird that my saved game DID actually work after waiting for a bit. So maybe the trick is to just wait it out? Has anyone else done what I do and had their saves load properly? Or was that just a lucky one off?