Aivskar: Had this problem a few times too, and now it keeps happening at the same place over and over which is preventing me from progressing.
The screen goes black and I'm kicked to the desktop, but I can still hear the game running in the background like normal, but can't go back to it.
i5 3570k
GTX970 - 352.86
8GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit
All settings maxed out except foliage distance and hairworks off.
Edit: Well, I made it through the part I was stuck on by putting the game into fullscreen mode. I'll let you know if it crashes again at some point.
Ok I thought that this is problem only for my GPU since couple months ago. Exactly that is happening and in other games. Nothing helps. Do you have Dual Monitor setup ? Because I do and I think that something is fcking up from GTX970 vram. If you go at event viewer and you check you will see that nvidia drivers stopped working and they've been recovered which is error for slow sending picture from gpu to monitor including vram faults.
I think its random and related only to some gtx970's. Also I thought that its my overclock but again I was wrong.