If your game is crashing while loading textures, try:

[troutfinger]

You need to set your “Texture Setting” to HIGH.   

It’s counter intuitive I know, but it works.

If you’re brave you can just edit the video.con file in your profile directory and change the setting to 3.

VideoSettings.setTextureQuality 3

Hope this helps you as much as it did me.
Cheers,
TF

[Tracy]

Troutfinger,
This worked for me thanks for the info.