Boxing Alcibiades

Hello. I finally got this sucker installed and wanted to try it out and see what happened prior to leaving town again. As a technical idiot, I figure I've got to recreate the lowest-common denominator's bugs... The game crashed when scrolling down in the "here's what's happening" plot box where they say that hopefully things will be friendly. Then the config program crashed every time I tried to change something. Total hang fixable only wit

(Apologies for not having gotten reports back: have been uberbusy planning a conference: I'm one of the schmoes on a lower-end machine with graphics on the motherboard, so I suspect I'll have a number of interesting things to send, to help see whether a graphics upgrade will turn out to be truly mandatory.)