I started a new game the other day, and from him talking to me on the bed all the way until the final crash at his couch during the word similarity test it just kept freezing up, then playing after a couple of minutes only to freeze up again.
I've officially given up.
Console or PC? If PC and if a reinstall doesn't help... I'd really begin to suspect partial hardware failure; memory errors, sound or graphics (or Hard drive!).
It could be the hard drive on an Xbox as well, if that's your platform.
I run it on WinXP64 with a 9800gtx with (currently) integrated sound and Muskin DDR2 RAM. I've had very sparse problems and zero crashes (that were not directly related to user mods).
That's not to gloat or anything, just to mention that the game is acting odd on your system (or mine
) ;be it from hardware fatigue, or just buggy support of that hardware :shrug: ~who knows.
**I know a bug, but not if its been fixed... The Reloading bench menu will add a scroll bar to any recipe with more than four components. It works, but using the scroll bar causes the menu to never update again (without exiting and re-opening it); meaning that hovering the mouse over other recipes will no longer show their components. There are no recipes in the default game (that I know of) that use more than four components, but its still a bug, and one that many modders might not notice when making recipes in their own mods. I didn't notice it myself at first, but eventually figured it out.