So, subject pretty much says it all... is there a list of hardware requirements?  Have others experieanced this? I like this game, and to play have to kill process and restart over and over to continue in the Campaign (thank goodness it auto-saves eh?)

   Any suggestions here?

 I've never experienced anything like that in spectromancer, well not since the early betas, but the last game I played that LOVED to lock constantly was fixed by rolling back my video drivers (which of course breaks other games...)  and the one before that was a sound issue.   Since the sound issue might be less of a pain, I'd try running spectromancer with no sound and no music, and failing that, try disabling your soundcard in your system--->hardware manager, and running it after a restart.  A few games still seem to deal with the card even when sound volumes are set to zero (they sort of never REALLY turn the sound off or something) so sometimes the disable thing is necessary to be sure its not a sound problem.  IF it runs ok without sound, you can start messing with sound settings in the hopes of straightening things out, both in and out of game.