[Edi]

Yes, the game was supposed to be preorder only at this point, with actual release on Feb 20th. If Desura allows downloads already, they've screwed up somewhere and are in breach of contract.

If they closed that security hole, good for them.

None of us are going to give any guarantees of the beta working if you got your hands on it. For me, it has been rock solid on Windows XP, the only crashes I ever got were bugs that were fixed in short order or loading a save game from a too old earlier version.

In that respect, it would be interesting to know what version of the OS you have, ioticus.