Hello everyone, sorry for my English first of all.

I have very big troubles in playing EB 1.0, not in the beginning, when I deal with small armies and few territories, but, when the campaign goes harder it's very difficult because many CTD happen.
CTD when loading the savegame,
CTD before fighting a manual battle, it's indifferent that the battle it's a siege or not (no problems with automatic results)
CTD after a battle

Apart the ctd there is the problem of a consistent lag when fighting battles.

I've red many interesting and very detailed posts about lag

But my question is:
Do you think that upgrading hardware would permit a better play ?
My system is the following:

OS: XP professional SP2
Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor 4600+ 2.41 Ghz
RAM 2 Gb
video card: Geforce 8500 GT 516 MB DDR2
DirectX 9.0c

Some told me that Athlon 64 X2 is good for 64 bit OS
Some told me that the video card is crap and the Ram is too few

What do you think about ATI chipset in comparison of Nvidia ?
And for now every card is, as they say, ready for direct x 10, do you think that can be problems for EB 1.0 ??

Thank you