Problems under the spanisch sun

[Lixus]

Many times if not always my game shuts down when i enter in realtime battle in the region of Carpetania and Lusitania. in the case of Lusitania only when i am close to the capital. When this happens i get a message from windows ''Rome total war does not work anymore''. It happend to my playing as Carthage and now as Rome. I even tried bouth versions of RTW for EB (Activision 3 cd-rom version and now Sega DVD). But the problem still happens. So for the moment i have to do something i really hate as i play EB, and that's fighting these battle automaticly instead of fighting them in real time. And the result to many casulties. And that's not good if you use the kind of strategy as i doe.

I wonder if it happens because i use Vista instead XP.
So can anyone help me?