Makes me not want to even try playing anymore, these crashes LOCK my entire system...something no other software has ever done since moving to Win8.  Theres some serious gremlins running about.  I can usually play for 20 min or so, then out of nowhere I get a black screen and it shuts off video output (sometimes I can still hear the music, other times not, but my monitors go into sleep mode.  I have completely updated Direct X and Geforce drivers.

Since the 1st patch, my system thrashes less, but the game has become unplayable.

If I try and play an AI only game (observe mode), it crashes within seconds of the 1st base being laid down.

[Coherent UI] (Warning) PID: 5360 | 2948 03:55:49.721559 Requesting resource read for file:///C:/Users/mike/AppData/LocalLow/MohawkGames/Offworld Trading Company/cookies.dat with internal id 0 reported FAIL

There is no file ANYWHERE on my computer names cookies.dat except in my skype profile

Multiple other font FAILS

[Coherent UI] (Warning) PID: 5360 | 2948 03:55:58.399017 Requesting resource read for coui://uiresources/MarsGameUI/fonts/titillium-regular-webfont.ttf with internal id 40 reported FAIL

[Coherent UI] (Warning) PID: 5360 | 2948 03:55:56.737131 Requesting resource read for coui://uiresources/MarsGameUI/fonts/titillium-regular-webfont.woff with internal id 33 reported FAIL

Other Misc fails

[Coherent UI] (Warning) PID: 5360 | 2948 04:07:42.409184 Requesting resource read for coui://uiresources/MarsGameUI/null with internal id 208 reported FAIL