Venturing back to these games after a long time away.

Currently attempting to play Sea Dogs: Caribbean Tales and even with mods, this is easily the most broken mess I have ever had the misfortune to witness in video gaming.

Recently spotted on Steam that some devs are attempting some kind of remake of this series, apparently in three part. I really do hope they have an entirely new engine for the game, along with some serious developers onboard.

This may help:

https://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/dialog-camera-quests-fix-larger-text-time-fix-and-other-patches.29064/

It won't fix everything that's broken, but it will make the game much more playable.