Like many others I had problem with this game, it crashed every 20minutes. But changing combatibility to win 98 fixed it. I have played the game over 15 hours without any crashes. The game itself is amazing hex game. It has quite steep learning curve (the reason why I didnt play this much at the age of 10) but there is very good manual that explains how everything works. I usually dont like turnbased timers but it works in this, although the timer is pretty unforgiving (atleast for someone who just started)