Same for me. It seems it happens during combats.
I never got this problem before, even in classic edition.
I had this at release in the classic edition. Not as often, mind you. It happened, but now it's borderline unplayable with it happening every four or five minutes. I constantly hit the quicksave button in order to not lose too much progress, but it's no fun playing that way. I clocked off more than 300 hours in classic, so it's certainly not related to my rig.
I try to grab something, crash. I initiate a transition to another map, crash.
I can't even leave the ship without crashing constantly. And what I don't get is this message of a hardware device having been removed. Absolute rubbish.