I also have no MSI afterburner and NVidia experience. still crashing. Literally the only thing that's installed is FFXIV, teamspeak and OBS. TeamSpeak has yet to be used and OBS is used only when streaming for Xbox/WiiU. This is on a completely brand new built computer, only a week old.

as a test, I downloaded unigine valley and it ran fine.

I still believe there is something wrong with the game itself, and I think SE not commenting on this very long thread [at least compared to others found here] is either proving that there is something wrong and they don't know how to fix it, or them not acknowledging there's something wrong.