Been crashing to Desktop everytime now i try to get too close to Goldenglow estate outside riften...

I can run outside of riften all over, except when i "pass" the "hidden border" behind the stables, as soon as i go more south than stables, i crash to desktop... I've tried the Large Address Aware program to see if it wasn't a "too little ram-crash", but in that case instead of desktop crash the screen freezes while music keeps playing, and my pc fan blows very hard / loud on and off non-stop as if trying to load tons of stuff

my pc is a hewlett packard p6615nl with:

AMD Athlon II X4 635 processor 2.90 GHz
4 gigabyte RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5450
Windows 7 x64 SP1

Have you tried windowed mode to see if you can get past that? It helped me during Bonechill Passage which also consistently crashed to desktop for me, maybe, by a long shot, it will help you as well.

too tired now will try tomorrow.

However i have tried restarting from 0 on my laptop, rushing through intro thingie and using the transport cart to riften, then running to the island, and it works. So then i copy paste my save-game from pc to laptop (as it worked to get there without being in thieves guild), and retry going there, and same desktop crash. Which makes me believe thus it must be something having to do with the "Steal from goldenglow + burn the hives" thieves quest...

Will try the windowed thingie tomorrow though, who knows it might work

This is happening to me aswell. Except for me its all over the place near riften and always the same spots. Playing in windowed mode fixed the crashes in some places but not others.

tried the windowed, even super small resolution (800x450 or so instead of 1920x1080) and it still crashes... It seems to happen as soon as i go too much west towards the lake (even the door near the blacksmith and to the right of the palace does the same thing inside riften)

I have the same problem around Riften. Reducing the resolution seems lessen the CTDs a litte bit for me.

Having a similar problem but with Markath. If I get close, it CTD's. Can't fast travel, carriage or walk there. Only occured after about 16 hours in, think it's save file related.

update: have rushed my way from start of game into thieving guild to get the goldenglow quest, and on laptop i can get to the estate. But if i try on laptop with the savegame from PC, it crashes too... so must be savegame related... (too bad i kept overwriting saves, as i got to restart from Helgen now XD)