We are working on a couple more builds for tonight to put up based on initial feedback and our own experiences.

Here are the things we've found already:

1) Playing as certain races can cause crashes.

2) If you have DirectX 9 but not DirectX 9c, the game will crash on start-up (you WILL need DirectX 9C installed, but we need to provide a dialog to tell you that).

3) Ships not showing up in the start port thingy to launch (i.e. you build a ship, you can't see where to launch it)

4) Saved games not reliably loading (unitiialized error that in debug mode works fine naturally).

And a bunch of other little tweaks.

We just wanted to get things up there so that you guys could start downloading the stuff. Because of the new Stardock Central, you only have to update what's changed which should be quite small.