“A critical exception was raised at hardware level. The program will now terminate”. I have this error as some of the other players have where the game has actually been running perfectly fine up until this recent update. I think the update was today, I believe? I’ve tried to verify the integrity, I have even uninstalled, re-installed ( all via Steam) as well. I have also turned of my fire-wall and anti-virus protection (morbid curiosity since that was suggested for someone) for the time being. Other than that, the game is excellent. I hope this can be sorted out.