I agree with Lady_Rain. The problem most likely resides in your PC (bad graphical driver, IRQ conflict, windows errors...). Check your logs, run DXdiag. I also experienced craches in a diffrent game but later I found out that actually my memory was busted and after i replaced it, it worked lik a charm.
Did that make sense to you when you typed it?
So you would have no problem that they fixed the first version (German) to perfection and then 6 months later the US version then 6 months later French version. Agreed most patches are universal but I rather have equal opportunity then the other members complaining "Why is their patch ready first".