There doesn't seem to be much in the way of reason to this - so I'm not sure what's causing it. It doesn't always happen and I haven't been able to recreate it reliably. It crashes both from the satellite view and the 3D view, and when the game is in a varity of stages.
Simply, the game seems to crash upon loading the menu screen - the 3D background to the screen and the menu part render, then crash to desktop.
I'm trying to find a way to disable the 3D background to the game's menu screen, assuming that's probably a good place to start troubleshooting. Anyone know of any ini or config tweaks to do this?