It really should, it runs on my Yoga, which has lower specs. We will look into it, we defensibly want to support the surface if at all possible.

Alright, with the latest update from today it now gets past the loading screen and works - new problem though, the govern screen for planets doesn't show the terrain, just the icons for stat bonuses. Anyone else experiencing this?

Performance is also really bad right now even with everything turned down, but then again, SP3 only has Intel hd5000... Not sure once things get hectic with more races if this'll be playable without a dedicated graphics card.

DARCA has a point, but without knowing what level your drivers are no one can advise you to do so. The post "GalCiv III Support FAQ" has instructions for running DxDiag. Use that to find the level and date of your GPU driver and compare that with the downloadable drivers on the Intel web site.

Beautiful - that did the trick.  Hopefully some of the higher resolutions get supported though - feels like I'm kind of gimping my experience.  Game runs fairly smoothly on SP3 now, only thing that's a little bit choppy is when I zoom in/out and slide the map around with touch.