Well have the drivers you would have used would have been BETA, so no doubt it did crash... I tried it a couple of months ago, and used it as my primary OS for until a couple of weeks back.
Couldn't fault it, games were no different, and Windows was a lot smoother. It's quite a step up from XP, the only problem being a couple of the more obscure programs don't work... like I said though, my only problem was Daemon-Tools, which I use quite regularly.
When I used it there were drivers available for everything I have (none of them being BETA by then either), and that's quite a bit of stuff...