Anyone else experiencing a crash the moment the game tries to open it's main menu? I wasn't able to even get the splashscreens to load until update 1.0.2, but now it reaches the main menu screen and simply crashes.

Actually i would have been a very happy gamer if i experienced a crash at the moment the game tries to open it's main menu cause my 'fries' are burning already on the intro which is very slow, looks like the game needs to compile something first, you can compare it with doubleclicking on a zipped wavfile, it needs to be unpacked , will use lots of CPU high cpu temps and then the player starts to play the archived wav from the temp folder.

In short: the game is burning my cpu, so it doesnt work at all...if i had a demo i would never bought this game , cant run it without overheating the cpu , maybe the recommended req. should be edited:D

Recommended system requirements Processor:D

about the quad core CPU:
2.66 Ghz QuadCore CPU:
NOTE please do NOT use a turbo boost enabled cpu , (even if you havent overclocked i)t
cause it wont work., the game will make the CPU running like in bootsmode cause the 2.66 Ghz is NOT sufficient to run game, CPU will be in boost mode all the time: from 2.1 to 3.2 ghz clockspeed.

This would not be a problem: i would just hide another game on my shelves , BUT since a new PC is really needed (after 10 years)and i am considering a i5 again ( need the power for applications aswell) it will have a turbo , and will also be in turbomode 24/7 with games like this.

Anyway >85% of all my games run a charm so the cpu is not to blame, own lots of casualgames, and every artifex
game works a charm sofar, many Alawar games( very good games but coding is a little sloppy) overuse the cpu aswell, and more ( steam) users also have same problem.

Chances are zero the dev will be able to fix this( cause its only with one pc : mine ( so i am to blame) , i am hiding the game on my shelves.


check attachment
this one shows only 72% usage and temps at 60 degrees celsius but it lies between 69 degrees 69 cpu and 81% cpu and 71 degrees celsius.
ow the idle temps of the cpu and gpu are 25 27 29 30 and 35,37,36,35 thats pretty cool

No startup crashes here. People won't be able to help you unless you share some information about your system. The game also writes crash logs into the game folder and those are helpful for the developers.