I finally figured out how to read the MDMP crash dump files but it may as well be in cuneiform. Anyone know what the hell an "Access Violation" might be?

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 10.0.16299.15 AMD64
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Loading Dump File [C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Empire Total War\empire_1332_crash_2018_1_26T23_19_44C0.mdmp]
Comment: 'dme_campaign.pack, dme_bsm_on.pack, dme_navy.pack, dme_grenades_on.pack, dme_deploy_on.pack, dme_darthmod.pack, dme_custom.pack, dme_skinpack.pack, dme_unitspack.pack, dme_aum.pack, dme_hudtrans.pack, dme_dfmgen.pack, dme_sounds.pack, dme_music_on.pack, dme_fonts1step.pack, EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION'
User Mini Dump File: Only registers, stack and portions of memory are available

Symbol search path is: srv*
Executable search path is:
Windows XP Version 2600 (Service Pack 1) MP (4 procs) Free x86 compatible
Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS
Machine Name:
Debug session time: Fri Jan 26 16:19:45.000 2018 (UTC - 7:00)
System Uptime: not available
Process Uptime: 0 days 0:00:03.000
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This dump file has an exception of interest stored in it.
The stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.
(10e4.1f98): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)
eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000029 edx=00000028 esi=00000464 edi=0b1950b1
eip=77280c72 esp=0018b47c ebp=0018b48c iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00000246
ntdll!ZwGetContextThread+0x12:
77280c72 83c404 add esp,4