First of all I'm happy to be a new member of this site. It's pretty cool, lot's of info on stuff. I can't wait to try playing against someone online soon.....

But my problem is this....after about 5 or 10 turns on Warlords the screen goes black. Then I'm taken to my desktop and a box apppears saying," Microsoft has incounterd a problem". It ask me if I want to report the problem, then closes.

Out of ten times playing warlords this has happen 8 times.
Any words of advice?
Thank you.

Meeting Ottoman civilization is known to cause a crash. There's a fix available, though. Search this forum for Ottoman and/or Mehmed.