Well, the beta freezes as soon as it goes full-screen, taking my whole PC with it so I can only do a hard reset... From what I gathered on the numerous freezing threads in the internet, ATI seems to blame as really old drivers work somehow...
only problem i've got so far is it keeps detecting my wheel / pedals as a joystick and wont let me deselect the choices of controls so it tries to follow the static inputs of the pedals regarding views etc. simple to cure by disconecting it but anoying all the same.