With CXGames 8.1.3:
Loading up the game takes a long, long time (the initial screen with the technology credits, etc. takes a very long time to pass) - the opening cinematic work fine, as does the menu system - but actually trying to start a new game brings up the loading screen and then crashes (the tutorials crash immediately, the grand campaign crashes at the end of the loading bar).
I've got a full log from startup to crash at http://ni.tl/newlog.cxlog