Homeworld Cataclysm The New Battlecrusier 3000AD?

Well Sure most of you have heard about Cataclysm anyway.

I bought HW few days after it was release as was drawn into it straight away it was and still is an exactly game bringing out an almost new genre Fully 3d Space RTS.

then when I heard Cataclysm was to be release I was overjoyed at the thoughts of something suppose to be even better.

So I went in to game and bought a copy of Cataclysm only a few days ago. brought it home went through a flawless install. then I go to the start menu up to cataclysm click the icon to run it... the game seems tobe loading up egg timer appears ... still on windows screen though... eggtimer disappears HD and CD keep making noise indicating activity then the computer freezes up completely.

I am devastated by this so I decide first maybe it's a hardware conflict ... I know I'll check the HW boards to see if there is anything similar out there... to my suprise there is hundreds and thousands of posts about this apparently a high precentage of the people who bought this game are unable to run it... Sierra refuse to recall the issues and insist instead that we all wait for them to release a patch.
Something this big should not have escaped hard ware test should it? it cruel I don't want to bring the game back as I want to play it but it could take sierra literally months to release a patch.

I post this merely to let people who found the same problem you are not alone out there.