OK, I want to kick some dreadlord butt. Or at least destroy a few evil races. Either way, I want to use some ingenious creativity in the ship designer and rule my people with an iron fist! but I can't .

OK so to the bug description: I start the demo game. I go to the menu and look at all the cool additions. I tweak a bit, set to 1 opponent on fool (I want a quick, ez game) and then prepare to kick butt. It cuts to desktop as soon as I click the last 'next' button. sometimes it shows what I think is a startup hint, but I only see it for a few seconds.

now, it said (when I played it the first time) I don't have the latest display drivers. So, my comp is a VPR Matrix, so I go to the site and dl(via external hard drive) and install the drivers. I had the same crash to desktop before and after I supposedly installed the drivers. I'm quite sure I installed the drivers right- it was quite straightforward. I think it asked me to reboot, and I did.

Now, I've only tried this with the demo. As soon as I can activate the full game, I'll try it then.