[Appears to be duplicate of crash report by szaki2]
Steps:
Click Play
Says Creating World
Cloth map appears for split second then CTD
debug.err at http://pastebin.com/m511befaa
dxdiag at http://pastebin.com/m3a15c5e6
p.s. Thanks for this game and your hard work!
Update: Using good ATI video drivers, but old (2005). Radeon 9600/256MB of RAM. Newer ATI drivers all corrupt directx so it won't run 3d tests (using dxdiag). Installed DNA drivers for ATI (not supported), and now at least dxdiag works and I get a map. It's blank so far though...no sovereign. Looking at other posts now...