The idiotic smugness of some of the folks here, so self-assured that issues with the game are due to user error, is fucking detestable. You are all patent morons. Here's your logic: My PC runs it fine, hence anyone else having problems just didn't do their homework! Brilliant. I don't suppose it could have anything to do with the fact that you have n different components of hardware in an average homebuilt PC. And then dozens of variables innate to that individual piece. Then you add to that subtle differences in OS, patches and installed software and you have literally billions of possible configurations. Do the math, it's billions. But YOUR computer runs fine, so everyone else is just an idiot. "Must be spyware LOL!"
I have 20 years in I.T., half of that in software and desktop support, before I moved up the chain into network engineering. My computer is quite stable, thank you. And NV freezes up maybe once per hour, after modifying the .ini a bit to correct a possible engine bug, and doing a few other tweaks to reduce the crash rate down from every 10 minutes. The game is buggy. You don't instantly see hundreds of reports across the nets of the same types of issues unless the game is flawed, anyway. But feel free to trumpet the awesomeness of your ignorance anyway. At least that way you have something to say.
This is exactly like the people who talk down at those who cannot run DirectX 6 and 7 games under XP: MINE RUNS FINE, UR DUM! USE THE LAUNCHER LOL. Couldn't be anything to do with the unique interaction of hardware, driver and engine, no. They must be stupid.