Thank you for the tips. Yes, I beliieve the only other time an application has caused a system shutdown is running heavy research loads. I tried testing a couple more times. CPU and RAM looked fine during startup / crashes, but apparently my laptop was hitting critical temperature.

I was most ...

For at least the past two versions, I have been experiencing a rather inconvenient crash-- one that shuts down my entire operating system.

Here's what happens.
1. I open the game
2. It gets ~78% through the loading bar (pre-title menu). I can't say for absolute sure, but it is most likely the same ...