Crossfire crashes after intro videos

So I just recently downloaded Crossfire. I got Freelancer and it's an extremely fun, well made game. But some areas were left for wanting, and I wanted to see if Crossfire could fill those gaps. Nearly 7 gigs of Crossfire compared to 140MB for Freelancer unmodded? I should hope so. However, after I got it installed, the new launcher loaded up and all that, it crashes after all of the intro videos. It gets to the main loading screen, and before it even loads the main menu it just minimizes, and a few seconds later an error window comes up saying that it's crashed, with no explanation. Is there a reason/solution for this, or should I just uninstall Crossfire and stick with unmodded Freelancer?