Since I have expereienced repeated blue-screen crashes on my desktop, I am trying to run Elemental on my laptop. The laptop's capabilities are less, but here' the specs:
HP Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook
Windows 7 Home Premium [64-bit]
Intel Celeron CPU 900 2.2 GHz
2 GB RAM
This seems to be sufficient as best as I can tell, and I have fewer crashes--and, so far, no blue-screen crashes. However, the game runs excruciatingly slowly on this machine. Every action--loading, moving a unit, choosing a building for a city, changing to a different screen, etc.--is accompanied by an extendede delay before the action is finally executed. It takes most of the fun out of playing.
I realize that this is a beta, so I expect problems. I'm just reporting this so that you're aware--and, also, just in caase anyone has any suggestions.