wildyracing
Sergeant

Increase your virtual memory (page file) and your maximum RAM limit, that is used for single application. That solved all my problems with desktop crashes. ALL. The "how-to-do" is in the following link :
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,131274.0.html
I hope I was helpful.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,131274.0.html
I hope I was helpful.