I've been hooked on M:TW for a good three years now (and before that, S:TW), but I had to stop playing when my laptop finally died.

Now I've got myself a shiny new desktop, and it didn't take me too long before I'd installed M:TW and VI (including the 2.1 patch). But I have a strange problem...

Every time I try to start a new campaign, it will proceed to the loading screen, appear to load, and then crash to the desktop. When I try to start a campaign again a few seconds later, it all works fine.

I've only tried Viking era campaigns so far, but it's happened every time - I'll let you know what happens with the other periods!

But any idea what could be causing this? Anybody else suffered the same problem?

I know it's not exactly the end of the world - I've had no problems starting campaigns on the second attempt. But it does seem a little odd...