I know I don't have the greatest pc, but I built mine from scratch 9 months ago and spent somewhere around $2000 building it. Maybe it is a cooling issue on my end (only using fans that came with case,graphics card, and cpu) but man this pc gets hot enough to heat the room its in. It doesn't happen often but occasionally I'll get a blue screen from running this game.

Seems to me the problem would be the current game engine. I seriously hope the new engine they're going to be using will fix this.

I'll try reducing the fps to 30 like ChiefCurrahee suggested and see if that helps. thanks everyone for your suggestions.