Before you post your problem please read the following:
If your game crashes on ACW loading campaign:
You have to login manually in Steam first and then start ACW (or any mod that uses a launcher). If you miss that and receive a CTD then you have to reboot before trying again.
If you want to post a start up problem:
Post your problem for technical support including ACW log report. Also tell us exactly when the CTD happens (e.g. on ACW screen loading, on ACW loading campaign, on game's menu, etc.). If you want to get an answer you have to include in your post the log report:
With 3.x version, a new future has been added that will help us support ACW better. A report log is created every time you start DMN. This log records all the launcher's actions and will help us provide a better support in problems related with start up. Now there is no need to ask you back "have you installed mod in the right location?", "do you use another mod?" etc. All needed infos would be provided by ACW log report.
So from now on: If you have problems with game's startup, please copy the report found in ...\empire total war\ACW\acw_log.txt in the post along with your question/problem. Since this report may be very long, it would be good to use the "code" tags. So select the text you copied and press the code button:
Code:.