I just reinstall Beth games every time a patch comes out seems like overkill but I have yet to have an issue arise from a new patch with this process. Also at least during the Beta the game wouldn't CTD it would stop responding which was different...is it still just dropping to desktop for you with no warning?
Freezes too. I said CTDs, but it is not fully correct, you're right. Of five times game stopped working three were crashes to desktop, and two were freeze-stops, I had to kill the process manually in Task Manager.