Had a problem with loading screen after you leave the tutorial village and talk with the npcs at the ship. The loading screen never went away, and just kept "loading" forever. Changing screen resolution from my default 1680x1050 to 640x480 let me get past the screen. (Same thing solved my problem with getting stuck at npc infront of village first time you go there).
win7 64bit, i7 920, 6gb ram, ati radeon 4670 with 512mb video memory.
