I just began working with the trial version, yet it seems determined to keep crashing on me, while I'm busy creating a character! Or at least, it stalls (mouse icon switches to the blue circle), and when I open up Task Manager to see what's happening, I get the "has stopped working" window. {sigh} I think it's happening when the game tries to load another music file. Operative word being "think"...I'm not sure whether it would mean anything that I'm using a computer with an ATI Mobility Radeon 2400 XT card (early 2008 iMac in BootCamp; I'd use the Macintosh version of the trial, but whenever I try to open the disk image on that side, I get a "not recognized" error...).
11:35 a.m.: At least safe mode works just fine, so I'm going to venture it was the graphics card getting overloaded...