Do you still get this crash if you go to Documents\My Games\Elemental\prefs.ini and set fullscreen = 0 before running the game?

That's interesting...I've never heard of that happening with windowed mode before.  Have you checked to see if there are any updated drivers for your video card?

Hello everybody! I know I'm probably just repeating what somebody else has posted, but I'm having crash issues at startup... It gets stuck at the splash screen forever... sometimes when I alt-tab out and back again, I get a yellow screen and a sound effect like a hiccupping pig begins looping... Sometimes I can get past it by double clicking or by pressing esc, but even when I do make it to the menu, it's unbearably slow... I've been waiting since the mid 90's for a game to give me back that Master of Magic tingle again, and I would very much like to get this working so I can beta test too! I am using Nvidia GEForce 8400 GS, have full internet connectivity, have all the latest drivers, and even did a complete system restart. my PC is empty other than impulse, elemental beta, and drivers etc... HELP!?!

Thanks kapeman, just wish there was better news... ::sigh:: after reading a few posts, it looks to be a problem with nVidea cards?

Hi! You there.... This helped my crash problem. You know the one I have reported since 8.02 (four versions). If I was next to you now I would have spilt a touch of my white wine on you as a revenge Thanks for the tip anyways. YAY MY FIRST REAL BETA PLAY SINCE CLOTH MAP!!!

We've made a lot of performance fixes so you should be able to enable your soundcard while playing beta 3B. 

Tactical Combat was not enabled in 3A.  

Please let us know if Beta 3B resolves this problem without needing to turn off your sound card.