Getting screenshots of the issue is pretty difficult, since the machine is locked up at this point. Kind of distressing--I'd love to be able to send some crash reports and so on--but it's not the game that's crashing.
Somebody mentioned in another thread that they were having overheating issues with their card while playing the game (although not with other games.) This was also with an nVidia card. Can anybody suggest a tool for monitoring video card temperature? If that's the problem, it could be a bad interaction of some sort between KB and the nVidia drivers/card that leads to runaway overheating. I've no idea what could cause that, but it would explain why things die in such a glitchy way.
It could also explain why people have less problems when they turn off various options like AA, since that'll task the card much less heavily.
Here's a screenshot I snapped just before the machine died one time. It has been resized since your size limits won't accept the native resolution.
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