If you are playing on D3D or Softwear for video mode, it could cause this. Depending if you have a decent video card, go into...
Steam
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Options
Click on Video tab
right corner, it will have a box, click on the scroll down arrow and pick OpenGL
Press Ok.
Won
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Configuration
Video mode (or settings-havent played won in a while)
Same thing.. scroll down to OpenGL
press ok.
This should prevent the crash of the game.