Hey I can't seem to get windows 8 to run medieval total war gold. I went to the virtual store and found:

a crash.txt
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Medieval_TW.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module Medieval_TW.exe at 0023:006DB038
EAX=0000006C EBX=0356FBD8 ECX=00024BEC EDX=000220C1 ESI=0BD7D828
EDI=000000EB EBP=0002DE60 ESP=0018C148 EIP=006DB038 FLG=00010202
CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B
0023:006DB038 (0x0BD7D828 0x00000002 0x000000F8 0x0356FBD8) Medieval_TW.exe
0023:0071C3A0 (0x00000002 0x0CD95828 0x056D11F8 0x000001E0) Medieval_TW.exe
0023:0071BD27 (0x00E7A5A0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000001) Medieval_TW.exe



and an error.log

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Errors for session started: Sat Mar 23 22:27:11 2013

E:\Mtw_atvi\frontend_base.cpp(956) : DirectX call : DDERR_SURFACELOST
E:\Mtw_atvi\frontend_base.cpp(956) : DirectX call : DDERR_SURFACELOST
E:\Mtw_atvi\frontend_base.cpp(956) : DirectX call : DDERR_SURFACELOST
E:\Mtw_atvi\frontend_base.cpp(956) : DirectX call : DDERR_SURFACELOST
E:\Mtw_atvi\frontend_base.cpp(956) : DirectX call : DDERR_SURFACELOST
E:\Mtw_atvi\frontend_base.cpp(956) : DirectX call : DDERR_SURFACELOST


I have tried compatibility mode as well as the windows' compatibilty administrator method (works for windows 7)

running windows 8, ASUS HD 7670 (AMD Radeon processor), 10GB DDR3 ram, 1TB HD, AMD Fx(tm)-8120 EightCore Processor 3.10Ghz

Thanks