My system specs are in portuguese so I'll do my best to translate them
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor 3.00GHz
RAM: 4,00 GB
HD: 221/466 GB
Graphic Card: ATI Radeon HD 4200
Monitor Resolution: 1280x1024
OS: Windows 7 32 bit (compatible with 64 bit)
THE PROBLEM (dont fail me now english):
I bought ETW in a store a few days ago, installed it without any trouble and played it while using a cheat hack for money called Cheat 'O Matic (dont worry, I didnt get anywhere near multiplayer), after 6 hours of playing i decided to download some mods from this very site, so i started with Empire Total Factions mod but since i couldnt use this mod with the cheat 'o matic (the game CTD when i activated the hack) i uninstalled the mod and went to download another mod, this time the 5 versions of the brigadiers drum roll cadence mod (by brigadier Graham) and the mod worked fine (i think i downloaded the mod manager tool to use it) - at this point the game is working perfectly as i expand my empire further into india and central america - then i had an idea to look for more mods so i came back to twcenter and found an incredible mod that makes the AI actually non retarded (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=445885), but i thought: what if i cant use this mod with the mighty cheat 'o matic? so i started to think and decided that i would download the mod and would stop cheating so i downloaded it and then it happened for the first time, the game crashed in the splash screen (before the intro movies), so i uninstalled the mod and started the game again but with no mod but this time i wanted to play as the British so i started a new campaign and hit alt+tab to activate the money hack but when i went back to the game i wasnt working anymore so i pressed ctrl+alt+tab and there is was: Empire Total War (this game is not responding) so i closed the game and started it again, started another campaign as the British with no hack and it was working but i didnt wanted to play a campaign as a poor nation so i went back and re installed the Empire Total Factions mod (dont ask me why, i dont know it either) and the game didnt worked (it CTD in the splash screen again) so i understood that i had fudged up my game and the only way to play the way i wanted was to load on my old dutch campaign but when i started the game, it CTD in the splash screen (no more mods and the cheat 'o matic closed) so i uninstalled my game and reinstalled it but it didnt worked so i asked for help for my dad and he restored my computer exactly to 2 days before i installed the game but again that didnt worked so i came here looking for help and read that it was a simple solution: uninstall steam and ETW, reboot, use ccleaner reboot and clean any possible remniscent of the game or the mods and reboot again then reinstalled the game but it is still crashing to desktop in the splash screen so i come here to ask for guidance cause i know that only some kind of god can give me a solution other than buying a new computer and a new game
PS: i have already used the cheat 'o matic for alot of other games and this have never happened so i dont think the cheat o matic is the problem