Crashes

There are some issues with the current 0.86, try playing with:
Disabled Outlines (Should help your computer if its slow)
Disabled Particle Effects (The devs have found a particular problem with particle effects in the current build, so better just leave it off)
Disabled Pedestrians (Helps computer performance abit more)
With Anti Aliasing Disabled (Performance too)

The performance helping is mostly to help your memory actually, the game does not run perfect alas, it is in beta .

I have no idea which of the crash bugs would be fixed in the next build avaiable 12. april, (tomorrow), so another tactic is to wait until they patch the bastard.

That said, Set your autosave to save each turn, game is rather unstable ATM and will crash in weird times of day, mostly due to the multithreading (some special mumbo jumbo) messing up stuff.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I think you're right....

But darned if i want to!  I'm pretty sure that it is a result of the multi threading/tasking, Etc.  Because earlier in the game it doesn't crash very much, but later on in the game when it's accessing all those little databases and stuff, then it starts getting herky jerky.  I'll also try the download tomorrow too to see how that works...I really like this game, it is really fun, even in beta mode....

Thanks for the help...