I did some more investigation and found that there was an error in Event Viewer at the same time of the crashes. The error code had a lot of results for this error while using my model hard drive (Crucial M500). This seems to occur only when a Win 8.1 is upgraded to a Win 10 on this hard drive.
I installed Windows and the game onto a new hard drive and have since been able to play without problems.

I believe this issue is resolved for now.
Thank you