Quote Originally Posted by goldendunner, in PM
When reading about ctd's in your numerous threads I can only seem to find solutions for when they happen in game. I have finally downloaded EB and I go to play it, it loads to menu screen, i select imperial campaign (or equivalent), Pick Romani, m/m no advice, start and bam! ctd, can you help me?
We don't help through private messages, email or the like, because it works against the purpose. In the forum, more people are able to see and come with possible solutions, so you get help faster, and others may benefit from finding the solution to their own problem.

So, to the matter. There are a couple of temporary fixes we've found, which may help you. They're already in your installation under a folder called TempFixes, check my sig for how to activate them. Backup the relevant files and activate them one at a time, running the game to see if it makes any difference.

While you're in that thread, be sure to download the permanent fix too, it won't help with starting the game but will make it more stable when playing. Don't install that one until you've tried the temporary ones as one of the temporary fixes will overwrite it or vice versa.

If the game still doesn't work with all of them, you'll have to use Filemon (or its Vista equivalent, Process monitor) to see what the game is doing right before it crashes. Harald Hardråde is currently going through this process, see his thread in this forum for how to set it up and post its results.

Another possibility is that your RTW installation was not 1.5, or was not clean. It can lead to all sorts of problems which many have overcome by uninstalling everything and starting from scratch. You may want to check that your download is intact too, Tellos' installation guide has the details.