The game stopped working for me after an update at the start of February, one of the patches while playing through the mission in Sto-vo-kor.
Busy starship combats in particular would cause the game to crash every 20 seconds to a minute, causing me to continually drop and rejoin tfos, and even fail to get the rewards from patrols.
Each patch and update, I would load it up and try again
Somehow, as of the start of July, it's working again.
The graphics card is now running at 80-90 degrees celsius, but the game, as yet, isn't crashing.
So, Thank You to whoever made whatever change allowed me to play again after a concerning hiatus.
I would quite like to know what did go wrong if anyone knows?
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