I had the same issue with baseline STEP and the crash with the dragon flying over out of the cave. This is on a fully stock non oc'd system. Surprisingly setting iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes to the recommended value from an RCRN article eliminated all the crashes.Â
Specs in case you care:Â
Mobo: Gigabyte z77x-up5-th
Proc: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.2 Ghz (stock clocks)
Ram: 8GB @ 1.6ghz (stock clocks)
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB (stock clocks)
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
Now the only issue I have is apparently SkyUI doesn't like this setting and will spam you with popups just because.Â