crashing?
No one will respond to that. It is sent into a bot that puts it into a database of items that QA looks at to try to reprodue issues.
I'd recommend starting with Zloth's ++ Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines ++ thread that is stickied in this forum.
Secondly, post a log from running CoH Helper as it will give information about your system and the CoH installation and settings.
Thirdly, post a log from running HijackThis. This will show what else is going on on your computer while you are playing CoH.
I'm not familiar enough with Direct2Drive to know what the quality of the download you received from them is, but it does seem odd that they'd sell such an outdated version as Good VS Evil edition. There's a LOT of patching you'd have to do after that gets installed.
I'd also suggest clicking the Verify Files button that is on the first screen when you launch the shortcut to the game, before you click next just so that it will force the updater to check all of the files first.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
i will try to give full issues. i have vista, i am using good and evil edition, and i downloaded it from direct 2 drive. at first i could only load my super old [censored] characters, my new ones crashed before it loaded the starting point. now it does load but my lvl 2 stalker went on his first mission and it was glitchy and eventually crashed. and by crashing i mean it comes up with a window that asks me to send the error report, which no one has replied to.