Here is my dxdiag file.

<t> Well, since you said that my soundblaster PCI512 card may be too old I decided to upgrade to a better sound card. So I went to CompUSA and bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card. Now I can get almost through the first turn before it crashes. This time I actually get an error: "An unknown error ...

<t> Updated my GeForce4 driver (it was VERY old), I still have the latest driver for my sound card. When I run the game I still have the exact same crashing problem. Randomly exits to the windows desktop without an error or warning. Glad to see I am not the only one with problems. My video card is ...

<t> Even though I have had problems since I bought the game I have not posted yet because I was waiting for the patch. I was able to get farther than ever before after loading the patch, I actually made it almost completely through one turn. Before that I would never even get to China's turn. My ...