Too bad 1C Company doesn’t seem to care about the non-steam versions of this title, what with not being able to find any workable non-russian patch that solved all crashes.
Not really a fan of Steam and its inability to play older versions of a game (at least not without a big hassle) but in KB-WotN´s case i bought it purposefully from Steam so it would auto update to latest patch & it works like a charm.
Haven't had any crashes since. Period.
(Sorry for posting similar posts in both "Bug" Threads, but since the threads are split i thought it might help someone not checking the other)