[Blueentity]

Aside from re-echoing some the "Access violation" bugs that have been previously mentions, I have a few more "bugs" to add:

1. No ship strategies.
Choose quick start. Able to choose strategies for newly created ships (good). Start new game, create new empire. Unable to choose ship strategies and all ship appear to have "don't get hurt" as default, colonizers or attack ships with DUC's (didn't try missile ships).

2. Error during setup.
Choose quick start. No errors. Again, start new game, create new empire. During Galaxy creation receive a Data File error "Unable to load data file C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Malfador Machinations\Space Empires V Demo\Empires\"" (Yes, there was a " symbol after the Empire subfolder).

3. Unable to access ship mounts.
After discovering Ship Mounts, either from start (Create new empire) or by research in mid-game, I receive an "Access Violation at 006F0F1E" when clicking on the "None" in the Component Mounts menu of the Create Ship menu.

4. Odd blue box graphics.
In “Create Empire” menus, the area for choosing atmosphere and Planet type is a streaky blue box. In the “Design Ship” menu, the view of the hull is a number of similar streaky blue boxes. Neither of these are fatal, since the streaky boxes in the Design Ship are slightly different for Armor slots, Inner and Outer hull. In the Research menu, the bar that should be filling up with accumulated research is a blue streak with a off-set purple overlay.

System
Windows XP
AMD Duron
952 MHz
256 RAM
Direct X 9.0
Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X video card
28 Gb free Hard drive

File
Downloaded se5_demo_v100_091106.exe from Filefront