TWGS has been buggy when running as a service under newer Windows versions. I just finished some fixes that resolved some obvious issues under Vista and Server 2003. The main problem was related to running TWGS interactively, where you can open the GUI and configure games and the server while it's running. Windows Vista and above (and that seems to include recent service packs for Server 2003) no longer support interactive services because it's a security issue (what isn't?). So TWGS is running under these OSs as a service, but cannot be accessed through the GUI, only through remote admin connection.

I really need some people to jump in there and do some additional testing now that it's running as a service, just to make sure that's stable.

This was the last thing on my "must fix" list, so I'm ready to release this very soon. Just need a few days of testing to make sure nothing's obviously broken. I'm going to work on the change list and post it here, then hopefully release this over the weekend or early next week. And of course, once it's released, I intend to continue tracking down bugs and problems, as well as working on the gameplay changes that we've been debating on here. So this isn't the end of the beta. Just a milestone.