I tried reinstalling ToEE recently and I'm having crash issues. now the thing is I was able to play it before so I know it works on my computer, I just don't remember what I did to get it working. I have the screen flicker issue when the intro video starts so I need to solve that, and I remember I let it run while hitting ESC because otherwise the game would ALWAYS crash. I'm running Windows 8 and the only anti-virus that I have is Advanced SystemCare.
Can you try applying this fix? http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11510 Unzip it to ToEE folder \ data \ mes