Ever since the patch was released, I've been suffering from overheating and other such card-related crashes, despite previously having no issues whatsoever. Did the patch do a number on the optimisation or something?
There is a good chance the patch reset your graphics options to medium. If you had set them low previously, this could be causing things to overheat now. The graphics-option-reset-on-patch is a known issue that we're working on fixing.
were there any graphical modifications included in the patch? I had just gotten my settings perfected for my laptop to be playable, and no matter what I try I can't get it back the way I had it working.