So the game crashes upon entire the Gilded Vale for me. I've tried it about 9 separate times. After looking up the error code and some other stuff, it turns out the game is attempting to load >2GBs of data into memory and is then crashing due to a limitation on memory loading for 32bit OSes?
I've attached the error report from the game (had to rename to .txt since it wouldn't accept .log).
error.txt