Right, I don't this is a bug, but I'll leave that for the people here to judge.....it sounds something more serious to me anyway.
So, I finally get the game, I install it and everything, and I start it. Now, it works fine until the main menu. There I try to run the Road to Independence campaign, and after loading about 1/3 of the way, the game crashes with the infamous white screen, and the Windows message that ETW has encountered a problem and needs to close............
I restart the thing, and run it again, this time trying for a battle tutorial. Same results, it crashes after loading 1/3 of the way. Same thing happens with custom battles......any kind of battle for that matter. The Grand Campaign on the other hand starts and goes on smoothly. However, even in there, as soon as I engage in a battle, and it starts loading same thing.

Now I tried reinstalling the game.....updating my drivers etc etc.....it just isn't working. I even tried using the err........ahem .......for the game, off the net. Even it gives me the same results.
So any suggestions?