Ive already posted a thread along these lines but just to reiterate, this has been an ongoing instability issue after about a week when the game launched.

FOr me, I can at times play several days without a single crash, then out of the blue the game wont play for an hour without just blinking off. There is also about a 50/50 chance when it does that my config files will also be missing right after the event. I have since been keeping copies of them all so I dont have to spend time redoing all my settings as well.

The only positive note is that when I do lose my config files, I get another storage chest in my camp, each one a different color.

Have tried everything people here have mentioned, drivers, running from the .exe file (which seems to take forever to load the shaders) dumping all background programs, sacrificing a chicken, you name it. Every time I think I have it figured out, a day or 2 later another wave of crashes.

The real sad part is that by the time they finally work all of this out I will have most likely lost interest in the game and moved on to something else.

This is (one reason) why I rarely buy games nowadays until several years after release.