Having the same issue: Downloaded the clent yesterday got to the login screen made a char. So far so good. Clicked the char to the load terrain screen. Loads the full bar or almost the full bar gives me a black screen for atleast 30 secs then returns to desktop. Gives me the popup to report then says server error: couldn't find crash log.

Created 3 diff chars from each corp all end up with the same issue. Uninstalled/reinstalled.
Sometimes sound keeps playing but sounds laggy. Haven't seen the ingame so far and out of possibilities.

Intel dual core 2.6g
Ati radeon hd 4890 1gb
1gb of ram

greets