Actually Midas, dragounoz might have been on to something. I seem to be able to play if i don't zoom put too much.
The thing is, the amount of things in my visions field seems to have no impact at ALL on this BUT the actual position of my camera does. If my camera remains in the confine of the battlefield, no crashing occurs but if the camera goes too close to the edge of the gameplay box, it crashes so maybe the camera can in some instances get outside of the bounds of the game field and into the skybox.