Did you make a post last time about it ? If not , can you give more details please , your hardware etc . Anything that you can think of that would help eliminate many logical conclusionstheories we might throw in your direction . This is the first time I have come across someone having such a disastrous experience . In the mean time , you can try to stop steam from loading it ' s steam overlay right click on the game in steam and choose options , dig in there somewhere to turn off steam overlay for this game this will perhaps for the mean time at the least stop steam from crashing while trying your options . Hopefully someone here can help you further unfortunately I am away from my PC right now to , otherwise as Druid said , try the edit the only guess I can make , and it ' s a big guess , is that you are not running with Dx 10 minimum hardware .