EB Freeze at start up - Need help

Greetings!

So I just downloaded EB for the first time tonight I made sure to follow the steps carefully, making sure I have a clean install of RTW patched to 1.5 and all of that. So everything goes smoothly until I try running EB, it will open up and show me the first screen and just stay there until I Alt Tab and manually close it. It will give me a error report message telling me I closed a non-responsive program. So I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong in the installation process I've followed installation guide on these forums even and nothing seemed to fix it yet.

Has anyone ever seen this problem before? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: Apparently I wasn't waiting long enough at the first screen where it says "Europa Barbarorum" It took a surprisingly long time though. Anyway, looking forward to trying out the mod. Thanks anyway.

First of all, if you just installed EB, better go apply these fixes so to prevent any other potential problems, however I think what is going on is this:

EB is just taking a long time to load.

Why? Because EB has lots of stuff to load. If you don't have that much RAM, then EB is going to take a fair bit of time to load up, though I think at start-up it can take around or upto 10 minutes. Usually, I just leave EB to load and go get gaming 'aids' whilst I wait for EB to load (snacks, blanket, coffee, etc). Just leave EB to load, as it likes to take a long time doing so. Also, it'll take a while loading up a new campaign or save game, so be patient. It isn't like Vanilla RTW.