I'm having this same problem, although I am not using gold edition, except that when I start an Imperial Campaign the minute I hit the arrow the game closes, no messages, just closes. Just to make sure, when you install BI I had thought that it patched to RTW to 1.6. I may be wrong and that is why I am having problems. I was having this same problem when I was attempting to try Rome Total Realism (Yours looks better and more historically accurate). It would crash at the exact same area. Because of this I doubt that it was a bad download, but I will try again if need be. Thanks for the help.