I think Krae has it right and it is most likely vid card at 16 mb related, I have spoken to some people who came up with a workaround for smaller capacity vid cards, the main campmap is 30 megs and there is also a 9meg map(and some PC's lack the power to run the larger map) in the same folder,(Located in medieval total war/Textures/Campmap as Maptex and Maptex 2) what these chaps suggested, tried and it worked for some was this, rename the 30 meg map to something else so it is not recognized by the MTW program which should force it to choose the 9meg campmap, which by virtue of its smaller size might get you past that point where it seems to crash. Now I dont know if this will help,I am just passing on what I have heard, but what do you have to lose? so you rename a file give it a shot might work. LOS