Does the movie play? Try putting an empty file named skipcredits.txt in your main game folder so the opening movie is skipped, and see if that changes the point where the game crashes. My game crashed when the movie played at first (again, I think my problem is related to video drivers). I learned you can put this empty textfile in so that the movie is skipped. I did this, and it got me to the Main Menu (the movie was causing the initial crash). I could then get to the foyer and play MP. However, the crash still occurs when I tried to run a single player campaign.

If your goal is to play MP, perhaps getting past the movie will get you to the menu. If it does, then my guess is you'll be able to log into the foyer from there and be able to play, like I am now able to.