Rome Total War problem

For those of you who know the game Rome: Total War, you also probably know of its myriad glitches and crashes and problems and bugs and the thing coming out of the thing...and so on.

But I got the game from a torrent, installed it fine, and now whenever I get to around 270 B.C. as Julii, it gives me that generic XP crash window (RomeTW.exe has encountered an error and will be shut down, or something to that effect). I haven't patched it, and the torrent discussion thread consists almost entirely of

Post 22: Okay, just mount the first cd using DaemonTools. When the installation prompts you to put in the next cd, alt-tab out and replace the first image with the second. Do this for cd three as well. Next, get a nocd fix and copy the executable file into the Rome Total War folder. That should work.

Post23: HAY GUYS HOW I INTSALL

And the one or two posts asking for help with my problem have gone completely ignored. So any help from my beloved 4chan would be greatly appreciated.

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you got the game cracked from a torrent? that's the source of the problem.

the problem itself is the game.

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