If you never patch the game, it works ok. I hate what the last patch did to the game. Obviously, that is my opinion.

I am so poor now, I cannot even properly garrison my towns. The armies in the field are at best 1/2 stacks. While enemy armies are the same way (smaller), this is not what I wanted to play. They should change the name of the game to TW skirmish. I have decided to quit playing it and see if there is any more changes. Other than that, I may delete the game and reload it with no option to update the game. I never had any CTDs prior to any of the patches, though I will say that I have had no crashes since the last patch. It did however, take the fun out of it.