The crashing as I understand it, due to memory leak, is something in the "kernal" of the game. A complete redo would be required, and the game would never be quite the same. I have reduced my crashing by overbuilding my box, using a quad-core processor, 32 gig of dram, 4gig vram across 2 cross-fire video cards, and the fastest internet I can get. Other users state they have converted to Linux, and do not crash at all. I would not write the game off because if the problem. Is it enough challenge, and enough fun to put up with the flaws? YOu have to make that call for you.