Quote Originally Posted by icek
its memory issue. It appears that kingdoms is more fragile than m2tw when it comes to lack of free memory. previous games made a stop for few seconds, kingdoms just make CTD with error in such moments and it happens even when you make a save game
And to anticipate your next question VAE VICTUS, you can tell us how much memory you have installed by going to My Computer, right clicking on it, move down to Properties and left click on that. A box should appear and on the last line of it the amount of memory (RAM) you have will be reported.