Civ5 Not Working Now on Laptop Windows 7

I've been playing CIV5 BNW on a desktop Windows 8 and Laptop Windows 7.
No real problems until this evening, when I tried playing CIV5 on the Laptop and while I could get into the main menu>>>load game>>>single player

My game never loaded. It just stood there for 20 minutes, I tried again, the same thing happened. Both times, as I clicked load shortly after I heard a "chimming" sound from Windows with this message:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program:...apps\common\Sid Meier's Civlization V\CivilizationV.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.

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Any ideas?

Yep...just tried on the desktop and got the same problem. It has to be the mods which installed. OK, so now what do I do to get CIV5 working and not lose my saved games?