i personally think its a platform issue rather than a game issue, though both are likely true. i have an AMD FX-8150 8 gigs of RAM and it never crashed on me... unless i literally ran out of ram or some other access violation in the game engine, but running chrome in the BG does not do much to help alleviate 98% RAM utilization. again i wonder who and why people are running into these crashes. but it would be nice if someone could release a "NO-SUPPORT" version, on a PM link basis or in some other way. i like FAR and seems like i will like NEAR a little better but (given that i need to clear out my GameData folder) i need it because of mods... or someone could release a variation that supports it. i read the licence... correct me if i am wrong but it seems we can do that. Edit: more like want. don't think when i am running chrome in the BG even with out the game running i am hitting below 4gb so...