Well I played for a little over an hour yesterday and I am impressed. I set my settings to 1440x900(Whatever the widescreen is) and put everything on high. I then went to the tutorials first to learn. At the end of the first tutorial my screen seem to freeze, I heard a windows error beep and then the title screen music started playing but the screen was still stuck at the end of the tutorial. My Hard drive was acting like it was going through something serious so I let it sit a minute and then alt+tabed out to find a message about an error and to send it to the programmers. I sent it so hope you guys got it. After I got back into the game I went to the second tutorial and had no problems.
I then loaded up my first game. Tutorial prepared me so I was able to jump right in. I played for about a half hour since that was all the time I had and I was about to get pwned by the ai.

I know that is sad but now I know what I am doing. I had no crashes during the session. Congrats to you guys on this beta 1 which is a whole lot better then galciv2 beta 1 which crashed on me about every 15 minutes. I will be playing a lot more later today so I will hopefully be able to give some more feedback.
BTW I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but the mouse movement was driving me crazy. I think I played to much supreme commander because I kept expecting it to scroll in where my mouse pointer was. Maybe I missed a setting.