I'd say your installation is broken. Have you changed something? I changed factions in the middle of my last game using console commands. A siege was taking so long I just wanted to switch over to the Reds just to see how much food they had left. I pressed ~ to bring up the commands and eventually ...

I try to start the game up but it says that several errors have occurred and the application is stalling, then it says that a critical error has occurred and that I should post the Main txt file to the support forum. 10:39:34 PM (Reporting) Loading general settings 10:39:35 PM (Reporting) USettings....