Wait, is this patch save-game compatible with v. 1.0? With the change of the Roman Senate as a recurring faction, I'm going to assume the answer is no.
I'm on a MacBook, OSX v. 10.7.5 ("Lion") using Bootcamp partition of my hard drive to play on a Windows 7 platform. I'd have to repartition my entire hard drive again just to fit this patch, because I left only enough space for Medieval II with the necessary Kingdoms patch and DBM 1.0. I was previously playing the Kingdoms mod Stainless Steel, but I backed all that up, including saved games, on a portable hard drive before uninstalling it to make room for DBM.
Are the CTDs really that bad for 1.0? Is it absolutely necessary to have this patch? Because it's a major pain in the ass to repartition a hard drive on a Mac. Since the main partition is encrypted, I basically have to erase everything first and that was laborious enough the first time.