It would play just fine. Today I launched the game and everything was okay. I exit the game and about 10 minutes later I try to launch it again and it crashes to desktop after the intro videos everytime. Verify/Repair didn't do anything. This kind of stuff is very frustrating.

EDIT: I opened the game.ini and changed "show intros" from 1 to 0, and now the game does not crash to desktop before the main menu. I don't know why or how disabling the intro videos fixed it. This is some weird $#!&.

I had the same issue after I tried to fix the game's low framerate with dgVoodoo2. But after I started to run the app while playing the game, and using the right settings,it works fine, again.