Dominion Wars XP ds9dw.exe Application Error

I have tried everything to run this game in XP, no patches, all patches - official & unofficial, compatibility, video settings.

When I run it, the Desktop blacks out, that's good. But just when it looks like the title screen is about to appear it will crash.

Any clue to I can do?

Event Source: Application Error
Event ID: 1000
Description: Faulting application ds9dw.exe, version 0.0.0.0,
faulting module ds9dw.exe, version 0.0.0.0,
fault address 0x00008a08