Problem solved, the patch that has come out seems to have fixed it. Thanks for your help all.
Andy_of_doom
Been playing the game for a few hours, except I can't finish a campaign due to frequent CTDs (crash to desktop) It used to crash the my whole pc till I turned all the settings down. I have an Nvidia N 7600 graphics card (256mb video memory) plus 758mbs of ram, plus AMD 2600 CPU. In short the game should not be crashing, is this just a game bug or is it my PC?
fingers crossed. according to IGN it went gold http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/879/879874p1.html so it will probably be out in a few hours.
I didn't get a serial when I preordered. Secondly, I haven't heard anything about the game going gold yet, so I'm not sure it will be released today. It would be really good just to get a "It will be out by the end of the day from Stardock". That way at least we will know. I hope this isn't like the beta when they waited till after the day to mention that it was delayed (I mean whats the point we kind of guessed it was delayed after it didn't happen).