I've had a similar problem. I uninstalled EB v.82, followed by RTW, and deleted the old folder. Reinstalled RTW, updated to 1.5 installed EB v1.0 as directed. The installation went smoothly (other than taking forever) and I restarted my computer when it had finished. I started EB v1.0 and made it through the first "Europa Barbarorum" screen; however, when the screen with the loading bar popped up, I got a CTD about halfway through the loading process. I uninstalled everything and installed on a different drive only to have the CTD occur at the beginning of the loading bar. My first file was downloaded from Filefront so I deleted it and downloaded the torrent file, only to have the same thing happen.