I have this same problem, I would appreciate it if someone resoled this:
whenever I get to the point I want to play the game, it reads my mind and crashes. So I suppose that timeframe is correct.
I'm running Glest 2.0.0 on Windows, which is supposed to be stable.
However it is obviously not. Anyways I've had it crash on me 4 times, every time I try to play it.
grr.