I had the EAX crash problem as well, did what everyone said, and then found a new crash, the cursor was turning into a black rectangle, there was part of a box on the left side of the screen, and when the game goto the witcher logo, after the eye flashed it would crash, at this point all I was installing, was the main patch and the english language file, I went ahead, and download the two add on's repatched with those two added in, and now the game works fine for me...I haven't tried putting sound acceleration back to see if it works, I'm just happy to be able to play now...