Some users have been experiencing crashes when FTF loads. These crashes occured while the splash screen was displayed.
The apparent cause was non-compatible shaders when played on machines with Directx10. The game engine seemly did not compensate. The offending shaders have been removed. This does alter the appearance in minor ways. Tweaks to colors and other images effects to compensate will come later - first priority was to stop the crashing.
A test machine that was running Directx10 and crashing on load is now playing FTF successfully! Please let me know if this solves - if not I will continue to dig deeper.
Thanks for your patience.