I have now tried to fight the same battle 6 times with a CTD occurring roughly at the point where the enemy would normally have had enough and leave.

3 hours of my life wasted. (Yes, I am hopping mad).

First, there seems to be a problem with Alexandria. Some ground squares close to the gates are mirrors of the sky and no troops can be placed there.

The city is in a corner, which seems to frustrate the AI to no end. It wants to go to a point that is below the South East Walls.

I tried to restart my machine. I set options to minimum graphics (unit size huge, but this is not a big battle and I have had no problem with massive battles) and no sound. Basically, I tried everything but reinstall the game (which I really should not have to do with an already clean install only 2 weeks ago), Defrag, turned off non-essential processes, etc, etc.

Still CTD about 15 minutes into the battle.

What the H^%#$&#LL is going on?

If I autoresolve, I'll have massive losses, as opposed to negligible if I fight it out, so I don't even have THAT option.

/Sygrod