What Windows version to use? Which game version is more stable?

[TheLastDays]

I do have a related question:

I am playing under Vista, works ok, I have RTW Gold installed, and then installed EB, so I guess it's using RTW.exe now and I get a huge load of CTDs at the moment.
Will switching to BI.exe change that? and what effects does that have on AI behaviour?

I don't have Alex, and if I bought it I probably wouldn't play vanilla Alex anyway, does it make sense to get it, just to be able to use ALX.exe for EB for stability, CAI, BAI, DAI?

Also, I guess I can still use all savegames when using a different .exe, right?

[stratigos vasilios]

I'm running RTW:Gold on Win7 with the unit card mod, extended offices mod, force diplomacy, rs textures and the city mod and I've experienced maybe one ctd. I had RTW original (not gold) on Vista (not in program files) and that didn't crash too much either.

[XSamatan]

To be absolutely clear on this point:
The Eb-team supports EB1 only for RomeTW.exe not for the addons, these are minimods created by people not afflicted with the team.

Switching to BI may help you, however in most times the CTD's are engine related, take a good look into the frequent issues and especially in the section about crashes.

IIRC RTW-->BI is completely safe, RTW/BI-->Alex may require additional files (check the submod.forum).

XSamatan