"Rome Total War has stopped working..." during/after battle

[Hank228]

It seems whenever I have a battle against ANY faction, my game simply decides to up and quit and crash with the message "Rome Total War has stopped working...".

Obviously I far exceed the minimum and recommended requirements, and it NEVER used to do it before until recently, when (while playing as the Brutii) I took on the senate and the two other families. For some reason, no matter the circumstances or the battle, my game will crash either halfway through a battle or at the end of it, before I even get the battle statistics screen.

Any ideas of what I can do? Thanks.

[Brusilov]

First of all welcome to the forum.

The game engine dates from 2004 or before so it does not make the most of the features on most modern graphic cards let alone CPUs.

Post your specs and the settings you are using as otherwise we're just guessing.