When I start Elemental from within it's program folder, the screen goes black and I get the 'feather' icon, but nothing. I waited 10 minutes once in case textures were loading. Than I started up Impulse and ran the program from there, and it worked just fine. I was connected to the internet on both occasions.

I am not sure if it's a bug, since perhaps the Impulse overlay allows SD to track user information; I also understand that Elemental multiplayer will rely on Impulse features. But for the singleplayer experience, will running Impulse be require? I generally run SD games without starting impulse.

Jorune

EDIT: DOH!!! Forgot the magic rule of beta testing. Always attempt to repeat the bug. While it WAS repeatable at the time, after a restart of my computer, I have NO problem starting up Elemental from it's program folder, without having to start up Impulse.