Please give the trial version a shot before using it (literally? :) in anger.
It's as good and stable as I can make it at the moment, but I'm not going to pretend it's, you know, absolutely rock solid against anything you can throw at it, and I'd hate for it to crash out from under you in the middle of a competition.
On the plus side, of course, if it does you should be able to just restart it and be on your merry way; that's what I do. :) So maybe it'd be fine.
It's as good and stable as I can make it at the moment, but I'm not going to pretend it's, you know, absolutely rock solid against anything you can throw at it, and I'd hate for it to crash out from under you in the middle of a competition.
On the plus side, of course, if it does you should be able to just restart it and be on your merry way; that's what I do. :) So maybe it'd be fine.