Game crashes during loading.

[penguinmayhem]

I installed TASprings. Followed the little instructions in the readme that say to open the test program and start a game. I get to the game loading screen and the program simply exits, no warning no message no nothing.
I tried hosting a multi-player battle, exactly the same problem. I tried using different maps, downloaded other maps, same problem.
I searched for new video drivers and can't find any. I deleted my entire installation directory and reinstalled TASprings all over again, as well as TA itself (not in the same directory) Same problem.
I turned all the graphics options right down. Same problem.
I've looked high and low through this forum, asked people online, etc. Nothing I've tried or seen or heard up to now has fixed this problem.

Does anyone have any idea what's wrong and how to fix it?

Edit: I think I might have solved it. I turned off the damn trees and now, suddenly, it works. Gonna go check to make sure it's just the tress messing my computer up.

Edit: Problem successfully identified. Turning "shadows" off in the settings menu causes the game to work perfectly. If anyone knows a way to fix this, I'm all ears. Until then I suppose playing without shadows is better than not playing at all.