I would have put this in the technical category, but upon inspection it seems that category is concerned with helping people fix problems and issues that they have.  I don't need help, so I'm putting this post here.

At any rate, during load up screen, select scouts using your hotkey, then put them to autoscout.  Then (again, during load up) build your capship using whatever hotkey you have assigned.  The game promptly minidumps on loadup.  At least it does for me, every time.

Can someone else confirm this?