Well, I waited on the game to be delivered in the first place. I could wait a while longer for the patch, but if I don't get some sort of fix, patch, advice, whatever, in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to have to return the game. I'd be happy to get a new fan or something, but I'm not going to do that unless I know overheating is really the problem (yes, I did post my error log in the stickied post in the bug reports forum). No point in spending money to change my system all around if I'm not even sure what the problem is.
Anyway, great game, from what little I've been able to play of it. Hopefully this patch will make the game playable for me and everyone else who is experiencing problems and/or gameplay bugs.
Stardock seems pretty supportive overall, though, so I'm sure I'll hear something at some point.