Yeah, it auto patched when I have it set to not automatically update. The new patch today has caused a lot of issues for me even without running the trainer. I crash whenever I select a ship in certain areas of the Americas and Europe where as other ships do not crash me. It happens every time I press that ship. Also certain armies and cities do the same thing. So the crashes aren't necessarily caused by the trainer, but the functions no longer work.
I have the same problem. Whenever I play as Great Britain, when I try to select Southampton, or any naval units created there, the game hangs and/or crashes. I think the real issue, is that Sega shouldn't have released this game yet. It clearly needs A LOT of de-bugging.