I always now start my games checking the key bindings under Options in the game. I set QuickSave and QuickLoad to F9 and F10 respectively. Good thing. Some time into the game it forgets where the game menu is which pops up when you hit ESCAPE. Well it doesn't pop up thus I cannot save, load or exit the game. Fortunately I can QuickSave so I do not loose my progress. To get the ESC menu back I have to Alt-F4 to shutdown the game through Windows and then restart. After loading I re-check my options and they are good.

Weirdly the key bindings I put in for QuickSave and QuickLoad only are set after I load a save. In the game menu that pops up soon after starting the game, if you go into Options and Key Bindings, there is nothing bound to QuickSave and QuickLoad. I load a saved game and those bindings appear.

Also occasionally the game comes up in Windowed mode even though I have Fullscreen enabled.

On a good note I used to run Boston Freelancer server and indeed, this game is a great successor to Freelancer. Those were the days, sigh! Looking forward to Underspace to have all the bugs to be worked out and the game to be fully populated.

Earendil