I ran the tutorial and had a hard crash afer a few videos and starting to explore. On reboot, Windows Vista suggested getting the latest nvidia driver. It turns out that there was a new one just this month that I installed. Now the game gives a black screen that requires reboot. I turned settings down to minimum on everything, but the game won't start.
I linked my debug.err file contents on pastebin. The specs for the game appear to be met by my computer by a wide margin unless a Geforce 9800M GTS graphics card is not good enough. Did I just waste $40 on a game I cannot play?