********************Medieval II suffered a fatal error and will now exit.*************************


So, tried to install EB2, and instead of getting to play it, I instead got the above error preventing me now from playing MTW2 at all.

I have verify files repeatedly, makes no difference. I deleted the local files, not once, but twice (on the 2nd one I manually removed the entire directory and made sure Kingdoms. was not still listed as an installed game), also made no difference.

No matter what I do, I get the same error: "Medieval II suffered a fatal error and will now exit."

Now there has got to be a reason this is happening and a way to resolve it, I mean at this point I'm at bare metal install for this thing, it is as if I just bought it for the first time, and yet it won't run.

Any suggestions?