Re: Clean Install- patched to 1.2 but cant do battles due to crashing.
I had to uninstall the game and expansions, then I cleaned from the registry any traces left of the game (and believe me, there are plenty left). Only then did I make a clean install and deleted the two files. This was the successfull aproach for me. No more CTD since then.
That looks more like a faulty installation. The only thing that you have to do after unpacking is deleting the geography files in the data folder.
If it crashes only in siege battles then the developer has forgotten to add the necessary files to his mod. (see my 'Bare Kingdoms" mod). But then 1.2 isn't Kingdoms to start with.